My acting coach really wanted to test my craft, so he gave me the sides to a Film that will be forever remembered: Academy award Winning Film Training Day ,Starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. I didn't back off, instead I went for it. He wanted to see my own version of the performance.. he wanted to see me create..so I created! This is the end scene when Alonzo (Denzel Washington) is Pleading to Jake (Ethan Hawke) to give him back his money, Jake is walking away with Alonzos money, while Alonzo Grows Irate with the gangsters for holding him at gunpoint, leaving Jake to walk free. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNMyY925ygM
Acting : Training Day Performance..would love your feedback by Michael Campbell
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Nor am I, at least not anymore! I'd taped this late last yr, December I'd say. Thank you Amy. Create a great day!
I really appreciate that! thank you
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I would say that it was a good performance on the whole and it wasn't done the way that Denzel did it. Kudos! It is a real challenge to take such a climactic scene and make it your own. Good job. Was the break in the momentum of the rant at the end intentional? If it was a mistake, you didn't lose your focus and that's good. If it was intentional, that was definitely an interesting choice. You have some good abilities and I look forward to seeing them on the big screen soon.
Hi Benjamin, thank you for those words of encouragement, and for your opinion.. yes the break in the momentum was intentional near the end. The character was watching as the people began to walk away..again thank you, and create a great day!
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You held your ground and provided a genuine moment in this character's life, that's an accomplishment in itself. However, knowing the film, I also know this is one of the rare moments - if not the only one - where we see Alonzo losing control of the situation. He's too proud to admit it and will fight for it, but deep down he knows that whatever control he had it is now slipping through his fingers, he can't hold the confrontation and let alone turn it around for his own benefit. You portraied a strong-willed man in control of everything around him except for this Jake character; you're "the man of the house" and you're angry. I guess what I mean is: the world that used to work for you is now turning on you, closing around you. The character rants not because he's angry, but he is desperate to get that control back, that's his comfort zone. Considering what I know about this character, that despair needs to come through in this pivotal moment in his life, possibly his last moments alive. That being said: a strong performance nonetheless, and cool of you to share it.