Dolphin Talent’s Acting + Industry Guide

As everyone preps for back to school (or if you’re in FL- gets adjusted to having started school), there are many lists available to you with suggestions and tips for starting the school year off on the right foot. While thinking of what tips I could possibly offer to student and teachers alike, I thought of this scene from Dead Poets Society. While cliche, is there really any better suggestion for back to school than to seize the day?

Best of luck as you all start out a new school year!

Another summer has flown by and it’s that time of year again. The time that many dread, while many relish as they find school supplies. Yes, it is back to school!  When I think of high school, I think of two things: obviously my time in high school and then John Hughes’s movies. I thought I would dedicate this entry to the late John Hughes.

If you don’t recall who he is, he wrote and or directed films such as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Home Alone. His films are iconic and timeless. Growing up can be can be embarrassing, stressful, confusing and a million other things; Hughes’s films captured the essence of this and gave it hope. These films are enduring not only because they gave the unpopular kids the spotlight, they center on a time in life that everyone goes through.

I want to recap my top five moments from a few of my favorite John Hughes films:

5) Probably any moment from The Breakfast Club, but specifically when they they’re dancing to Karla DeVito’s “We Are Not Alone.” How fitting, five different stereotypes show that they are more alike than they think.

4) The scene in Home Alone where Macaulay Caulkin’s character overcomes his fear of the furnace in the basement. A random scene I know, but I love when the furnace starts “acting up” and Macaulay very nonchalantly says, “Shut Up,” he turns and walks away.

3) “Try a Little Tenderness” scene from Pretty in Pink. Duckie, played by the lovable Jon Cryer, lip-synchs the Otis Redding classic in hopes to show his best friend, played by Molly Ringwald that he has feelings for her.

2) The moment in Sixteen Candles where Molly Ringwald’s character walks out of the church, and Matt Dillon’s character is leaning ever so suavely in his bright red car. Isn’t this the moment every hopeless romantic in high school wants?!

1) “The Twist and Shout” scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. I remember watching this scene over and over again when I was younger. I know this is a typical favorite, but how can you not love the spontaneity and the energy of this scene??

Thank you John Hughes for creating films with so much heart to make us laugh and cry, and quote time and time again. The films have been a big inspiration for filmmakers including all of us at Dolphin, and we hope to make movies that live on for generations to come as you have. To end, here is one of my favorite quotes, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it,” said by the very wise Ferris Bueller.

-Emerson

To the joy of Dolphin Talent andthe rest of America, our former student was titled America’s Favorite Dancer on Fox’s TV show “So You Think You Can Dance”.  It comes with no surprise that Jeanine made the top 20 or even the top 10, but Jeanine herself showed her elation at being chosen as America’s favorite last Thursday.  In the show’s fifth season, the 21.6 million voters broke the existing record for total votes cast.  And Jeanine was the one who received the most!  Already recognized in the danceworld for her success as a Contemporary dancer, now all of America has stopped to admire!   Jeanine won $250,000 and will begin her tour in September with the rest of the Top 10 dancers from the show.  She still holds her love for acting dear to her heart, and we are so glad to be a part of it!   Here’s an interview with Jeanine and TV Guide: 

http://www2.seattlepi.com/articles/409183.html

Every character in every movie ever made must be secretly loaded, even that little kid in Slumdog Millionaire, when he was mostly just ‘slumdog’ and not as much ‘millionaire’. How do I know this? Movie characters never stop to collect their change in convenience stores or any stores for that matter. Nor do they wait in lines at those stores. They just bring their items swiftly to the front of the store, hand over some money, and depart. And don’t even get me started on the availability of taxis in movies that take place in New York. Or the lack of traffic! Of course, movie-goers are necessarily well-versed in the art of suspending disbelief for the sake of enjoying a movie – how else could we watch a fleet of giant robots emerge exclusively from General Motors vehicles and battle to the death, or museum exhibits come to life – twice? Personally, it used to be that I would sort every movie into one of two categories: either it could conceivably happen in our world, or it couldn’t. But really, they all fit the latter description. Here’s how you know: Could Jennifer Aniston’s character from He’s Just Not That into You walk into a Blockbuster? Probably. Could she rent Marley and Me? Ahhhh! Clearly, I need to think up some new categories. Just something to think about as you enjoy all those blockbuster hits this summer.

We just wanted to share with you about another blog that is directed towards actors getting startedin the entertainment industry and making the transition to Los Angeles.  The blogger, Megan, speaks from experience and we are excited to have her sharemore valuable knowledge with us at our LA Experience trip in a couple weeks.  Check out her blog at: www.tailscalifornia.com

-Jenn

Often actors wonder what job he/she should turn down and which to work on. Here is a  fun list to see what roles famous actors have turned down. In looking at these you could never imagine anyone else playing these roles, yet many of the roles that made people famous, the actors that played them were not the first choice. See if you agree or disagree on the production’s first choice and let us know what you think.

http://www.glamorati.com/celebrity/2008/25-more-actors-and-the-roles-they-turned-down/

-Manny