Overacting
Under overacting ( English for "exaggerate exaggerated play") is understood in the art of acting the excessive use of verbal and especially nonverbal means of expression, such as gestures and facial expressions . Overacting can be used to portray a peculiar character or to highlight the evil traits of a villain.
Badly trained actors usually unintentionally "exaggerate" a role. Even with good actors, unintentional overacting occasionally occurs, for example under the influence of a bad director .
As an acting technique, overacting can also be used to characterize roles. This is particularly common with eccentric and comical characters. Well-known "overactors" are z. B. Louis de Funès , Jean Harlow , Mickey Rooney , Marilyn Monroe , Peter O'Toole , Jack Nicholson , Lily Tomlin , William Shatner , Steve Martin , Bette Midler , Roberto Benigni , Kathleen Turner , Jackie Chan , Eddie Murphy , Nicolas Cage and Jim Carrey .
Since the quality of a representation is not perceived uniformly by the audience, the perception of an exaggerated game is also subjective to a certain extent. The assessment of the "naturalness" of an acting performance is also subject to historical change, so that other standards must be applied to films from the silent film era than B. in contemporary films. In film productions, in which the scriptwriter and director set the (virtual) distance between actor and viewer at will using the size of the setting , overacting is perceived differently than in the theater, where the actors also play for viewers who sit in the back row.
In the series Batman with Adam West , exaggerated overaction was used as a parody element. The main actors and the well-known guest stars exaggerated facial expressions, gestures and emphasis to an intentionally ridiculous measure. Together with the brightly colored, inferior backdrops and costumes, and sometimes unsuitable dramatic dialogues, the creators of the series successfully imitated a cheap superhero comic.
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- ↑ Chris Michael: Why I love… movie overacting. The Guardian, October 11, 2013, accessed February 27, 2020 .