I read the article, "Anyone can Act". Being very self critical, I have had many times in my life where I just don't think that I'm good enough. Times when it seems like I can't do anything right for a role, and I get very in my head and I feel utterly defeated. It can be incredibly debilitating and discouraging creatively. However, this article re-iterated the important idea that you must persevere through the days, weeks, months, sometimes even years of failure to achieve that one moment of success. I really liked what Andy said on acting and being successful in it: "Rehearsing is one of the keys to 'successful' acting which in this context is basically synonymous with 'keeping your shit together'."
While reading some of the monuments pieces I felt as if each of them had something that they needed to prove. For example, for the Tate piece felt the need to expose what history has done to people. Each level exposed how much each person was taken advantage of in service of someone else. For the rumors of war piece exposed the whole idealism of the past resurrecting a past historical leader to make sure that the event does not happen again. The Bracero monument exposed all of the work that the people of that time had done in order to make sure that not another person is taken advantage of again. But truth be told, all of these monuments have come with some sort of backlash. The bracero monument had gotten criticism for stating that the braceros were free to do what they wished. From what the article had stated that was not the truth. It was merely one persons interpretation of what a bracero was, b...
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