How come actors talk unrealistically.

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#1 NiKva
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In every movie I've seen, the actors are reciting poetry rather than saying what a normal person would say.

Why so unrealistic?

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#2 AvatarMan96
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They're movies :|

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#3 parkurtommo
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No, you're the one who talks unrealistically :x

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They're movies :|

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#5 megagene
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You need to stop watching Shakespeare films and start watching action flicks and comedies.
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#7 parkurtommo
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You need to stop watching Shakespeare films and start watching action flicks and comedies. megagene
Comedies, definitely Also, movies like LOTR have that kind of loquacity due to it's pure awesomeness
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#8 spazzx625
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You need to stop watching Shakespeare films and start watching action flicks and comedies. megagene
Or anything with January Jones in it. She's terrible.
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#9 NiKva
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You need to stop watching Shakespeare films and start watching action flicks and comedies. megagene
Been watching The Walking Dead. They speak with too much metaphors and similes. Definitely poetry.
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#10 LJS9502_basic
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[QUOTE="megagene"]You need to stop watching Shakespeare films and start watching action flicks and comedies. NiKva
Been watching The Walking Dead. They speak with too much metaphors and similes. Definitely poetry.

You have something against Shakespeare?
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[QUOTE="NiKva"][QUOTE="megagene"]You need to stop watching Shakespeare films and start watching action flicks and comedies. LJS9502_basic
Been watching The Walking Dead. They speak with too much metaphors and similes. Definitely poetry.

You have something against Shakespeare?

Yes, Julius Caesar was trash, and WTF happened to the prince in Macbeth he just ran away -.-

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#12 DyranLK
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'Cause much of real life people and speech is/are a lot less interesting than actual scripted ones, of course. :-P

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#13 LJS9502_basic
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[QUOTE="Fightingfan"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="NiKva"] Been watching The Walking Dead. They speak with too much metaphors and similes. Definitely poetry.

You have something against Shakespeare?

Yes, Julius Caesar was trash, and WTF happened to the price in Macbeth he just ran away -.-

I dunno....I like some Shakespeare. Including MacBeth.
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#14 NiKva
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[QUOTE="NiKva"][QUOTE="megagene"]You need to stop watching Shakespeare films and start watching action flicks and comedies. LJS9502_basic
Been watching The Walking Dead. They speak with too much metaphors and similes. Definitely poetry.

You have something against Shakespeare?

Shakespeare writes plays. I'm watching a television action/sope opera.
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WTF happened to the prince in Macbeth he just ran away -.-Fightingfan
What? Are you referring to Donalbain and Malcolm?
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[QUOTE="NiKva"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="NiKva"] Been watching The Walking Dead. They speak with too much metaphors and similes. Definitely poetry.

You have something against Shakespeare?

Shakespeare writes plays. I'm watching a television action/sope opera.

It's more of a drama with action just being the plot hole.
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#17 LJS9502_basic
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[QUOTE="NiKva"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="NiKva"] Been watching The Walking Dead. They speak with too much metaphors and similes. Definitely poetry.

You have something against Shakespeare?

Shakespeare writes plays. I'm watching a television action/sope opera.

Soap opera?:?
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#18 NiKva
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[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="NiKva"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"] You have something against Shakespeare?

Shakespeare writes plays. I'm watching a television action/sope opera.

Soap opera?:?

Slope operations.
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#19 Fightingfan
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[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]WTF happened to the prince in Macbeth he just ran away -.-Just-Breathe
What? Are you referring to Donalbain and Malcolm?

No, I think it's Fleance, I can't remember the name exactly.
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#20 Ace6301
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Because if they talked like normal people every movie would have 20 or 30 minutes of extra screen time because they had to add in the ums, uhs and awkward pauses that often fill normal conversations. Bad horror movies and exploitation films often have much more normal talking patterns and their painful to watch.
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#21 LJS9502_basic
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[QUOTE="NiKva"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="NiKva"] Shakespeare writes plays. I'm watching a television action/sope opera.

Soap opera?:?

Slope operations.

No clue dude.
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#22 branketra
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Because you're only watching Shakespeare.

Edit:

You need to stop watching Shakespeare films and start watching action flicks and comedies. megagene

Weird.

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[QUOTE="Just-Breathe"][QUOTE="Fightingfan"]WTF happened to the prince in Macbeth he just ran away -.-Fightingfan
What? Are you referring to Donalbain and Malcolm?

No, I think it's Fleance, I can't remember the name exactly.

Oh, Fleance was Banquo's son, he was not a prince. Banquo told him to run away [spoiler] To stop himself suffering the same fate at the hand of Macbeth's murderers [/spoiler]
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#24 Ace6301
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[QUOTE="Just-Breathe"][QUOTE="Fightingfan"][QUOTE="Just-Breathe"] What? Are you referring to Donalbain and Malcolm?

No, I think it's Fleance, I can't remember the name exactly.

Oh, Fleance was Banquo's son, he was not a prince. Banquo told him to run away [spoiler] To stop himself suffering the same fate at the hand of Macbeth's murderers [/spoiler]

it would also make a really boring scene to just have him doing whatever he did after running.
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[QUOTE="NiKva"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"] You have something against Shakespeare?LJS9502_basic
Shakespeare writes plays. I'm watching a television action/sope opera.

Soap opera?:?

It's a TV genre. Its an ongoing drama usally about the lives of everyday people (e.g. Eastenders and Coronation street).

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#26 LuxInferior
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They talk in an idealistic way, because we all wish we could say the right things at the right time. Thats my take on it anyway.

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#27 NarutoFever1
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I often find myself pointing out mistakes in how people emphasize words/what words they emphasize, both on T.V. and in real life.

There are quite a few other problems that I can think of with most people's acting, but that immediately jumped out at me because it's the one that I think irritates me the most.

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#28 CycleOfViolence
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Actors speak in the tongues of the gods. Us mortals use a lesser dialect.

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#29 MarioRPGer
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watch a Cassavetes film.

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#30 weezyfb
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yeah there was this one movie where they released the kraken, totally unrealistic
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#31 chaoscougar1
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NiKva, I think you need to get in there and show em how it's done.
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