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Bring back the weird noises from Classic Who. Why does everything have to be so polished and fancy nowadays I want a weird duck-like instrument playing a 5 second instrumental between scenes

#kazoo time #doctor who

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sci-firenegade · 8 hours

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That's how it went, right

#omg #doctor who #second doctor #jamie mccrimmon #polly wright #ben jackson

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sci-firenegade · 9 hours

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Leave him alone brigadier he's just really excited about his color coded dinosaur pins

#love this scene #doctor who #third doctor #brigadier lethbridge stewart #john benton

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sci-firenegade · 10 hours

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Filmkünstler; wir über uns selbst, published in 1928, asked popular film figures to write a small autobiographical entry about themselves and their work. Here’s Conrad’s:

I was born in Potsdam. Then I came to Berlin and attended school in Schöneberg. I was an extremely bad student, because all those school days I’d be daydreaming at my desk. Those school lessons were not life. Life was to sit on the gallery entrance to the Deutsches Theater between 5 and 6 o'clock, evening after evening, to get a good seat for one mark. The burning question I had from then on was, “How can I become an actor?” With a lot of perseverance, I finally got my introduction to Max Reinhardt, and received a year’s contract for 1913-1914, with the princely fee of 100 marks a month. That year, nothing special happened. Then I became a soldier and played in various front-line theaters. In 1917, I was discharged from the military and went back to Reinhardt. It was then I got my first success in the theater, but more importantly, with that success came film.

By that point, I had hardly paid any attention to the medium and had definitely geared my artistic ambition towards the stage. But I soon discovered that there were just as many artistic possibilities in film. It began with the film “Diary of A Lost Girl.” I learned as much as I could as I worked, and was engrossed with the nuance of film production, which for me had strangely been instinctual from the start. I didn’t have to struggle half as much with the technical aspects of film compared to the technical demands of the theater stage. But I soon realized that the actor’s work with film is significantly more challenging than the theater, only because the great stimulating factor of the theater is entirely absent: the fluid energy of the audience. It is not so easy to perform in a large venue full of heat, dust, and noise– the noise of the shouting workers and the to and fro of people coming and going. In this environment, on command, “Mr. Veidt” must instantly and almost automatically conjure what is required for a successful scene and overall performance. So it takes extreme concentration and the most powerful devotion to work. So what works in the end? The Suggestion.

One great film came after another. “Let There be Light,” “Prostitution,” “Prince Cuckoo” etc. etc.

There have been attempts to label me as a “demonic actor.” I am not. In fact, I’m absolutely “undämonic,” and I’ve shown it often enough on the stage and in film. Whenever I have an evening off, I inevitably go to the theater. I just can’t avoid it, because the theater is my love. I couldn’t live without film, without the theater.

In regards to “The Suggestion,” it pops up sometimes when Conny discusses his approach to acting. I think he would use this as a catch-all term with his own unique, applied meaning. The best explanation was when he compared his acting method to radio wavelengths. He’s a wireless set that picks up on the waves broadcast by other persons, and tunes accordingly. At least, this is what I think he’s meaning by “The Suggestion,” especially when he remarks on the fluid energy of the audience in his autobiographical essay. But I could just be misinterpreting Google translations.

I asked for someone who is more familiar with German to make sense of "The Suggestion” in this context and they said he just means “pretend/make-believe.” But I’m still not convinced.

𝚞𝚙𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎 (Jan 26, 2021) : So I finally read J. C. Allen’s biography of Veidt, and in Chapter 20 he touches on what “The Suggestion” is, and provides an excerpt where Conrad expands on it a little:

…let me quote Veidt about himself and his thoughts on the power of suggestion. Veidt believed in extrasensory perception, and, at times, was able to sense and foresee things and events that were beyond the range of normal human perception. Call it ESP or clairvoyance or pre-cognition, or whatever you prefer, Veidt was a sincere believer in this gift. As Veidt expressed it: “For what is it that matters in the final outcome? It is suggestion. I am a convinced spiritualist and a very good medium, and ever since my youth I know what the power of suggestion can do. In my life it has been able to do everything, both artistic and human. I put the utmost heart and soul into things and I know that a great deal of my success in due to this. That is the reason, for instance, why such a great part as that of Cesare in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari excited me so much.”

#Conrad Veidt #always lovely to see him talk about his method #method acting before it was cool #with some occult stuff put in for good measure

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second doctor 🤝 clara oswald

having a situationship with a scottish man that ends in said scottish man losing his memories

#oh no #doctor who #second doctor #clara oswald

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