Blog 8

 "Inception" was the idea that John Jiang brought up in our acting class for the group project. I knew that John started to get interested in Leonardo DiCaprio after the Great Gatsby scene. When John offered me a role of Leonardo DiCaprio, I accepted the role without lots of concern. At that time, I was very confident about my acting ability. At that time, I did a fine job acting as a male main character in the winter musical "Once on this island". Also, after acting Leonardo DiCaprio in the Great Gatsby scene and showing my energy and characteristic that I haven't shown to other people, I was feeling really good. I was feeling good because I felt people accepted my rough and wild characteristic and I even felt I received some respect by showing the part that I was usually hiding in my real life. So, after all of those acting career, I was being over confident. I started to enjoy the reputation that I gained from my job in Great Gatsby scene and Once on this island and forget how much work I put to those performances. When I accepted John's offer of acting the role of Mr. Cobb, I wasn't realizing and thinking about the responsibility of the role and just thought that I have an ability to act the role successfully. That cocky attitude and mind made myself being lazy. I learned that the first step and the most important part of learning the character is memorizing lines as soon as possible from the past acting experiences. There were few elements that gave me hard time learning the lines. First, there were a lot of unfamiliar vocabularies. In the movie, Mr. Cobb is extremely intelligent character who knows everything about inception which is very complicated concept. So, it was very hard for me to act with those words that I didn't really understand. Secondly, the script wasn't clear to me. I couldn't tell what director was expecting only looking at the script. The biggest reason why I was confused was because there was no explanation of scene change. Lastly, when I was in the class, I was more focused on to other peoples' acting instead of focusing on my role. Because of the confidence that I gained too much, I was judging others's acting, just complaining about the situation to the director without doing any productive action, and forgetting about what I was supposed to do. Because of all of those excuses, I never memorized my lines and eventually my role was given to someone else. Now, my role in our class is just filming, and helping the director in general. This project was good chance for me to think about the ideal role of director and actor. Next time, I hope I can be a better actor who knows the role of himself.