KarmaSutra
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Going through another of STR8UP's fantastic threads I chanced upon this golden nugget from Victory Unlimited:
I remember one instance I was the DP on a shoot in Midtown Manhattan in the middle of February and the Director wanted a shot of two women talking crossing the street. Now, I had to hold the camera while walking backwards in the middle of the day, all the while keeping the frame correct. Not an easy task. But it was one of the actresses in particular who I still remember as being more diva-ish than the other who thought that she was entitled to more of the frame and did everything to subterfuge the other actresses effort to get the shot in the can. All for the attention of this particular Director. Reflecting on it now I see that he was using what we now know as "DJ-ism".
Though I use this illustration of actresses due to it being a point of reference in my experience, I don't believe that it's correct to limit it to one group of women. I wholeheartedly believe that these are universal body language/philosophies.
Immediately I started to reminisce about the first handful of films I had Directed or had been part of the crew and recalled how each of the actresses I'd hired had used some form of manipulation and thier own emotional feces to get that edge over the other women on set. Now, I'll add that some of these are Strasberg trained actresses from the Actors Studio which is a couple blocks from the school I went to. I mention this because they, like pretty much every other woman, have honed and parlayed thier Craft to such an extent that they have a difficult time discerning whether they're playing a role for a movie or playing a role for a prospective mate's attention.To women competition is thier primary source of motivation. It fuels their vision of what they see as thier best future and gives thier consciences a green light to do everything in thier power to get thier target " by any means necessary."Victory Unlimited said:MOST women are lifelong actresses. They have been perfecting their "craft" since birth. They are skilled at saying one thing and meaning another. They are skilled at acting one way while FEELING another way entirely. Many do this as some eschewed means of self-preservation or conflict avoidance. But there are also those who do this to RUN A POWER MOVE on you.
I remember one instance I was the DP on a shoot in Midtown Manhattan in the middle of February and the Director wanted a shot of two women talking crossing the street. Now, I had to hold the camera while walking backwards in the middle of the day, all the while keeping the frame correct. Not an easy task. But it was one of the actresses in particular who I still remember as being more diva-ish than the other who thought that she was entitled to more of the frame and did everything to subterfuge the other actresses effort to get the shot in the can. All for the attention of this particular Director. Reflecting on it now I see that he was using what we now know as "DJ-ism".
Though I use this illustration of actresses due to it being a point of reference in my experience, I don't believe that it's correct to limit it to one group of women. I wholeheartedly believe that these are universal body language/philosophies.