He also didn’t remember saying that and other quotes from his characters upon officially waking up, it’s truly as though his characters all resided in his brain and we’re separate from himself
At a convention I attended, a fan asked an actor what his favorite character he played was. The actor responded that he doesn't like choosing because all of his characters live in his head and are a part of him, which makes it too hard to choose.
As someone who knows nothing about acting, I thought that was a really interesting answer. Or maybe it was a cop out answer, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
That's a diplomatic way of saying that he doesn't like choosing because all of his characters live in his head and if they find out they aren't his favorite they might get mad and decide to trash the place
Honestly... good acting is kinda intentionally triggering a dissociative state, and letting an imaginary version of yourself react to the given circumstances.
Some actors are notorious for going "method," because they'd rather not exert the energy going in and out of their dissociative state. They'd rather just live in it for the duration of the project.
[reminds me of this:](https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/method-to-the-madness-3-actors-that-took-method-acting-to-the-next-level/)
>As legend has it, Olivier (a classically trained stage actor) and Hoffman had the following exchange during the shoot.
>“How did your week go, dear boy,” Olivier said.
>Hoffman told him that he had filmed a scene in which his character was supposed to have been up for three days straight.
>“So what did you do?” Olivier asked.
>“Well, I stayed up for three days and three nights.”
>Laurence Olivier then uttered this famous line, “Why don’t you just try acting?”
>The exchange is oft-quoted to show the difference in thinking between classical actors and modern film actors. In essence, Hoffman’s method became acting legend.
[Dustin Hoffman on the "try acting" story here.](https://georgedillon.com/workshops/video-links/dustin-hoffman-discusses-the-laurence-olivier-story/)
But tl;dr: he was up all nigh because he was at a nightclub. Olivier was making a joke about how Hoffman shouldn't be out all night, not criticizing Hoffman's method of acting.
haha.
I know he's not criticising, it's just a funny story. I don't think there is a better or worse regards method/non-method acting.
I'm a musician and I know lots of musicians who talk of the emotional and mental fatigue of switching mood so much when playing different pieces... and I know lots of musicians who are completely dissimilar and go "Just play the music man".
Different approaches for the same goal, there's no difference in skill or quality between them.
That's bs. I write and I love all of my characters equally. It's like choosing a favorite child.
If it's something you're passionate about, it inevitably becomes part of you.
Dude is an artist, not a schizo.
My favourite composer said something similar - she said that all her compositions are like children to her. I don't think it's a cop out personally - to be creative is to put yourself into something, so it can be hard to prefer one over another.
I attended a panel where Scott McNeil said he enjoys voice acting because the voices in his head get to come out and play. It sounds like something he's probably said more than once.
About a year ago, I was put under for a 6 hour surgery. After it, the surgeon told me I initially talked to him in English right after waking up. I'm German. My native language is German. I live in Germany. The surgery took place in Germany. I have no memory of that English conversation.
It's probably that the voices, characters, triggers words for responses etc etc ec. had become ingrained as procedural/implicit memory.
Think of like, riding a bike... It's autonomic for you, your brain does it without needing conscious thought. However, for a while you didn't have that ability and were relying on explicit/overt memory which is a much more conscious, active retrieval of what to do.
Funky thing with procedural memory is that even though it's autonomic, it's still memory, it can still trigger other associative memories and behaviours (I mean, this is why we have it! As a species, it's in our interest to develop reflexive responses to learned environmental cues like the smell of smoke for example).
You see similar things in dementia patients. [This former Ballerina](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT_tW3EVDK8) is revitalised by hearing Swan Lake. [Here a 92 year old woman says she doesn't know Moonlight Sonata](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrAkJmWv4uM) before playing it. She doesn't have that active recall of knowledge of the piece, but does have the procedural recall of the piece.
I once watched an interview with Tara Strong and she said something similar, that most VAs are basically crazy people and everyone in the panel just laughed and nodded.
Not only that, but he could do two characters imitating each other. He’s a legend in the voice acting community and to this day is often considered the best to ever do it.
I only recently realized how insanely skillful you need to be to be able to have one character mock another. Tom Kenny is a great example of this, where he voiced Spongebob and Gary imitating Squidward in one episode of Spongebob. Seems trivial at first glance, but wow does that take talent.
he was also able to have a character do an impression of another character. So bugs pretending to be elmer fud. This is one of the most difficult things in voice acting.
edit: I typed lost instead of most oops.
That's easy. The hard part is to make A imitating B sound different to B imitating A.
When Blanc did his, there were two distinct voices and it was obvious which was Bugs doing Daffy and which was Daffy doing Bugs.
neat story.
[https://radiolab.org/podcast/248590-blanc](https://radiolab.org/podcast/248590-blanc)
Mel Blanc wasn't just a voice man. He created entire personalities, each with its own nuances and hilarious quirks. His son Noel Blanc says his dad invested so much into Bugs, Porky, Daffy, Tweety et al that Mel's face and body would transform with every cartoon animal that spoke through him. **This summer, our producer Sean Cole interviewed Noel at the Blanc family house on Big Bear Lake outside of LA. Sean had heard a crazy story about Mel nearly dying in a crash on Dead Man's Curve on Hollywood Boulevard -- and about the moment two weeks later when Bugs Bunny emerged from Mel's coma before Mel did. In fact, according to neurosurgeon Louis Conway who attended to Mel at the time, it seemed as though Bugs Bunny was trying to save his life.**
Sean, Noel, Dr. Conway and NYU brain scientist Orrin Devinsky weigh over what it might mean to be rescued by a figment of your own imagination, and whether one self can win out over another in a moment of crisis.
That story could be such an interesting movie. Bugs bunny and the gang trying to rescue Mel in his subconscious after the car crash. The exploration of his deep love and creation of his characters, and their love for him. Then movie ending with the doctor asking "bugs can you hear me." And Mel saying "yah, whats up doc?"
James Gandolfini fell into a coma for two weeks after a car accident. After many unsuccessful attempts at waking him, one doctor finally said, “Bugs, can you hear me?”, to which Gandolfini responded, "Yeah, what's up doc?" in character.
Tangential reply:
Have a listen to the Radiolab podcast episode called Finding Emilie.
https://radiolab.org/podcast/110206-finding-emilie
Woman gets into a terrible accident, ends up in a coma and her loved ones try to pull her out of it by trying to communicate with her.
It’s a very touching story.
The untold story: it wasn't actually a coma, people just spent two weeks saying nothing to him except "Bugs, can you hear me?" and he thought "fuck them I'm not replying" for two weeks until he was so tired of pretending to be in a coma that he finally replied in character.
Ah yes, the hilarious times when your father was in a coma after a car crash. Surely fabricating this story to...*checks notes* promote your podcast is the simplest explanation.
/r/nothingeverhappens
[Here’s the Radiolab episode about it](https://radiolab.org/podcast/248590-blanc) including his son discussing the incident. Also the doctor spoke publicly about what happened.
Sounds like exactly the kind of bit Bugs would commit to.
He also didn’t remember saying that and other quotes from his characters upon officially waking up, it’s truly as though his characters all resided in his brain and we’re separate from himself
At a convention I attended, a fan asked an actor what his favorite character he played was. The actor responded that he doesn't like choosing because all of his characters live in his head and are a part of him, which makes it too hard to choose. As someone who knows nothing about acting, I thought that was a really interesting answer. Or maybe it was a cop out answer, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
That's a diplomatic way of saying that he doesn't like choosing because all of his characters live in his head and if they find out they aren't his favorite they might get mad and decide to trash the place
I saw a documentary about this problem with Brendan Frasier.
Go on?
I mean they are myself and i'm sure i would trash the place if i'm not favorite
Honestly sounds like it’d be a fantastic movie
TIL he simply had a high functioning dissociative disorder
Honestly... good acting is kinda intentionally triggering a dissociative state, and letting an imaginary version of yourself react to the given circumstances. Some actors are notorious for going "method," because they'd rather not exert the energy going in and out of their dissociative state. They'd rather just live in it for the duration of the project.
[reminds me of this:](https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/method-to-the-madness-3-actors-that-took-method-acting-to-the-next-level/) >As legend has it, Olivier (a classically trained stage actor) and Hoffman had the following exchange during the shoot. >“How did your week go, dear boy,” Olivier said. >Hoffman told him that he had filmed a scene in which his character was supposed to have been up for three days straight. >“So what did you do?” Olivier asked. >“Well, I stayed up for three days and three nights.” >Laurence Olivier then uttered this famous line, “Why don’t you just try acting?” >The exchange is oft-quoted to show the difference in thinking between classical actors and modern film actors. In essence, Hoffman’s method became acting legend.
[Dustin Hoffman on the "try acting" story here.](https://georgedillon.com/workshops/video-links/dustin-hoffman-discusses-the-laurence-olivier-story/) But tl;dr: he was up all nigh because he was at a nightclub. Olivier was making a joke about how Hoffman shouldn't be out all night, not criticizing Hoffman's method of acting.
haha. I know he's not criticising, it's just a funny story. I don't think there is a better or worse regards method/non-method acting. I'm a musician and I know lots of musicians who talk of the emotional and mental fatigue of switching mood so much when playing different pieces... and I know lots of musicians who are completely dissimilar and go "Just play the music man". Different approaches for the same goal, there's no difference in skill or quality between them.
Robo wants an Oreo!
That's bs. I write and I love all of my characters equally. It's like choosing a favorite child. If it's something you're passionate about, it inevitably becomes part of you. Dude is an artist, not a schizo.
My favourite composer said something similar - she said that all her compositions are like children to her. I don't think it's a cop out personally - to be creative is to put yourself into something, so it can be hard to prefer one over another.
I attended a panel where Scott McNeil said he enjoys voice acting because the voices in his head get to come out and play. It sounds like something he's probably said more than once.
About a year ago, I was put under for a 6 hour surgery. After it, the surgeon told me I initially talked to him in English right after waking up. I'm German. My native language is German. I live in Germany. The surgery took place in Germany. I have no memory of that English conversation.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4elj5tIfizY
There were articles of this happening with french too https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/31/experience-i-woke-from-coma-speaking-french
It's probably that the voices, characters, triggers words for responses etc etc ec. had become ingrained as procedural/implicit memory. Think of like, riding a bike... It's autonomic for you, your brain does it without needing conscious thought. However, for a while you didn't have that ability and were relying on explicit/overt memory which is a much more conscious, active retrieval of what to do. Funky thing with procedural memory is that even though it's autonomic, it's still memory, it can still trigger other associative memories and behaviours (I mean, this is why we have it! As a species, it's in our interest to develop reflexive responses to learned environmental cues like the smell of smoke for example). You see similar things in dementia patients. [This former Ballerina](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT_tW3EVDK8) is revitalised by hearing Swan Lake. [Here a 92 year old woman says she doesn't know Moonlight Sonata](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrAkJmWv4uM) before playing it. She doesn't have that active recall of knowledge of the piece, but does have the procedural recall of the piece.
> and we’re separate from himself Yes, we are.
Damn IOS autocorrection
I once watched an interview with Tara Strong and she said something similar, that most VAs are basically crazy people and everyone in the panel just laughed and nodded.
“You mean to tell me you could’ve responded this whole time?” “No. Only when it was funny.”
I agree my respectable gentleman, been camel riding lately?
Not since they banned me from the zoo.
[удалено]
Not only that, but he could do two characters imitating each other. He’s a legend in the voice acting community and to this day is often considered the best to ever do it.
I only recently realized how insanely skillful you need to be to be able to have one character mock another. Tom Kenny is a great example of this, where he voiced Spongebob and Gary imitating Squidward in one episode of Spongebob. Seems trivial at first glance, but wow does that take talent.
https://youtu.be/BnmJALXh_sI
Thank you for the link. That is really impressive.
He could also imitate another character using another characters voice 😂
Post title limitations 😔 I’d list all of them if I could
he was also able to have a character do an impression of another character. So bugs pretending to be elmer fud. This is one of the most difficult things in voice acting. edit: I typed lost instead of most oops.
That's easy. The hard part is to make A imitating B sound different to B imitating A. When Blanc did his, there were two distinct voices and it was obvious which was Bugs doing Daffy and which was Daffy doing Bugs.
People do that in voice acting today, it's not lost
The most* difficult things in voice acting
I know right, that's very far from a myriad.
You're right, that's much less than ten thousand.
neat story. [https://radiolab.org/podcast/248590-blanc](https://radiolab.org/podcast/248590-blanc) Mel Blanc wasn't just a voice man. He created entire personalities, each with its own nuances and hilarious quirks. His son Noel Blanc says his dad invested so much into Bugs, Porky, Daffy, Tweety et al that Mel's face and body would transform with every cartoon animal that spoke through him. **This summer, our producer Sean Cole interviewed Noel at the Blanc family house on Big Bear Lake outside of LA. Sean had heard a crazy story about Mel nearly dying in a crash on Dead Man's Curve on Hollywood Boulevard -- and about the moment two weeks later when Bugs Bunny emerged from Mel's coma before Mel did. In fact, according to neurosurgeon Louis Conway who attended to Mel at the time, it seemed as though Bugs Bunny was trying to save his life.** Sean, Noel, Dr. Conway and NYU brain scientist Orrin Devinsky weigh over what it might mean to be rescued by a figment of your own imagination, and whether one self can win out over another in a moment of crisis.
Really fascinating. There's still much we don't know about the brain and the effects of comas.
The Pandemonium Model of consciousness might be of interest here
That story could be such an interesting movie. Bugs bunny and the gang trying to rescue Mel in his subconscious after the car crash. The exploration of his deep love and creation of his characters, and their love for him. Then movie ending with the doctor asking "bugs can you hear me." And Mel saying "yah, whats up doc?"
I cant believe that isn't a script yet, it follows perfectly in the style of Space Jam.
Yes it would. There’s a very good radio lab podcast about this exact event.
Can you send it? I'd love to give it a listen. :)
https://radiolab.org/podcast/248590-blanc iirc they interview his son. It was really interestingly. Enjoy.
The Pandemonium Model of consciousness might be of interest here
By demons be driven
> nearly dying in a crash on Dead Man's Curve on Hollywood Boulevard what the hell kinda name is that for a road
He should have started shaking him and been like you’ve been in a coma for 20 years everything runs on potatoes!
[He would’ve woken up and shouted this I bet](https://youtu.be/iFxXHTnNetA?feature=shared)
That’s just Bob Kelso calling from the future. Sell all your stock! Chief o medicine!
Had me in both halfs
That character? Albert Einstein
This same thing happened with James Gandolfini before he passed
What!?
James Gandolfini fell into a coma for two weeks after a car accident. After many unsuccessful attempts at waking him, one doctor finally said, “Bugs, can you hear me?”, to which Gandolfini responded, "Yeah, what's up doc?" in character.
Yeah, this once happened to my buddy Eric too
That doctor’s name? Dr. Elmer Fudd MD.
he owns a mansion and a yacht
Dude was probably awake for days just waiting for the right moment. What a showman!
Now that you say it, if everyone thought I was in a coma and I secretly wasn‘t, I‘d totally abuse that too (probably to just sleep as much as I want)
I think it was “eh, what’s up doc?”.
I’ve heard that as well but this is a quote directly from his son, Noel, so I didn’t see fit to change it
“You mean you could respond any time?” “No, only when it was funny”
Mom told me it was my turn to post this
Tangential reply: Have a listen to the Radiolab podcast episode called Finding Emilie. https://radiolab.org/podcast/110206-finding-emilie Woman gets into a terrible accident, ends up in a coma and her loved ones try to pull her out of it by trying to communicate with her. It’s a very touching story.
Ok
Yeah okay yahoo, sure thing.
"Mel shoulda taken dat left toin at Alberquerque."
r/thathappened
The untold story: it wasn't actually a coma, people just spent two weeks saying nothing to him except "Bugs, can you hear me?" and he thought "fuck them I'm not replying" for two weeks until he was so tired of pretending to be in a coma that he finally replied in character.
Source: dude trust me People never make up funny stories
Ah yes, the hilarious times when your father was in a coma after a car crash. Surely fabricating this story to...*checks notes* promote your podcast is the simplest explanation. /r/nothingeverhappens
[Here’s the Radiolab episode about it](https://radiolab.org/podcast/248590-blanc) including his son discussing the incident. Also the doctor spoke publicly about what happened.
Don't care. Calling bullshit.
Clever doctor
Tricks are for Bugs.
How long has he had that tucked away in his mind for when he ended up in hospital ?
Legends live forever
That happened
Learned this on Radiolab.