*Sorry for the lateness! I could not access my blog because I was using the wrong gmail address!
As a few others have said, I too have not had much experience in working in productions or evenattending productions. I can count on my hand the plays I have seen in the past few years. The main ones being Beauty and the Beast the Broadway Musical, The Phantom of the Opera, and Russian’s Ballet Swan Lake. All three of these would most definitely fit into the entertaining aspect of performance. Hands down I absolutely loved and enjoyed every moment of them but there was nothing that informed or convinced me of something that was true. Yes, there was an unusual love story in Beauty and the Beast but the goal was not to show how real or terrifying the beast was, or was it? As I am writing this, I could potentially see the argument of how the way the actor walked, talked, and dressed and even how the other actors/actresses behaved around him, giving us a sense that he was indeed intimidating. Or I can be totally thinking too much on this, you tell me!
As for movie productions, that I am well acquainted with. The one I chose to highlight is the 2010 dark comedy, Four Lions. First off, if you have never seen it, go to your Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, or local library as I did, to get it! This provocative film follows five British Muslims become suicide bombers. Though it doesn't focuses on religious ties but attempts to shed light on terrorists, shockingly in a humorous way. Personally, I had trouble understanding the actors because of their heavy accents and even when I put subtitles on the only option I had was Spanish. After the many attempts of understanding what exactly was said, the ending became the reason for choosing this production for this post. The whole movie is headed to their final plan of terrorizing the London Marathon with ridiculous costumes on. Throughout the film, we see how these five men come together, work together on making the bombs, and strategizing their next step. Seeing this became truth for the viewers, mainly because we don’t have much to compare. Other productions about terrorists rarely give them screen time, let alone a complete focus on their lives before.
For both examples, there was no verbatim method happening. Especially for Four Lions we are never introduced to “real life” terrorists. Unlike Aftermath, this was not based on a true story, yet was based on what we see terrorists as. I see a difference in showing how a specific person’s life alters their choices and paths to showing how generally people’s lives will always have choices and various paths.
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