300. The Lives of Performers

And as, as the film opens, w- it leads with that sense of realism with audition scenes.

I always worry that maybe people aren't gonna like me when I go to a party.

Isn't that crazy? Do you ever get a kind of a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when you dread things? Gee, I wouldn't wanna miss a party for anything, but every time I go to one, I keep feeling like the whole world's against me.

See, I've spent my whole life in military academies.

My mother doesn't have a place for me where she lives.

She just doesn't know what else to do with me.

But you mustn't misunderstand about my mother.

She's really a very lovely person.

I guess every boy thinks his mother is beautiful, but my mother really is.

She tells me in every letter she writes how sorry she is that we can't be together more, but she has to think of her work.

One time we were together, though.

She met me in San Francisco once, and we were together for two whole days, just like we were sweethearts.

It was the most wonderful time I ever had.

Then I had to go back to the military academy.

Every time I walk into that barracks, I get a kind of...

A kind of a- I'm sorry.

[paper rustling] Kind of a depressed feeling.

It's got hard stone walls.

You know what I mean? Gee, I guess I've bored you enough telling you about myself.

Thank you.

Now, what is great about this opening sequence featuring the great Paul McCrane, who does a great job here playing Montgomery, is at first you don't quite know where you are, what's going on.

It's framed so tightly that this could be anything.

It's only as the camera pans out and he bobbles that section, which is a very important acting moment in the film because he bobbles, he loses, he goes up in the vernacular of acting.

He loses his place when it gets real for him.

And what's great about that is we then see Jim, the great Jim Moody playing the drama teacher who's, who actually was a drama, drama teacher at the Performing Arts High School playing Farrell, who is the drama...

And as, as the film opens, w- it leads with that sense of realism with audition scenes.

I always worry that maybe people aren't gonna like me when I go to a party.

Isn't that crazy? Do you ever get a kind of a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when you dread things? Gee, I wouldn't wanna miss a party for anything, but every time I go to one, I keep feeling like the whole world's against me.

See, I've spent my whole life in military academies.

My mother doesn't have a place for me where she lives.

She just doesn't know what else to do with me.

But you mustn't misunderstand about my mother.

She's really a very lovely person.

I guess every boy thinks his mother is beautiful, but my mother really is.

She tells me in every letter she writes how sorry she is that we can't be together more, but she has to think of her work.

One time we were together, though.

She met me in San Francisco once, and we were together for two whole days, just like we were sweethearts.

It was the most wonderful time I ever had.

Then I had to go back to the military academy.

Every time I walk into that barracks, I get a kind of...

A kind of a- I'm sorry.

[paper rustling] Kind of a depressed feeling.

It's got hard stone walls.

You know what I mean? Gee, I guess I've bored you enough telling you about myself.

Thank you.

Now, what is great about this opening sequence featuring the great Paul McCrane, who does a great job here playing Montgomery, is at first you don't quite know where you are, what's going on.

It's framed so tightly that this could be anything.

It's only as the camera pans out and he bobbles that section, which is a very important acting moment in the film because he bobbles, he loses, he goes up in the vernacular of acting.

He loses his place when it gets real for him.

And what's great about that is we then see Jim, the great Jim Moody playing the drama teacher who's, who actually was a drama, drama teacher at the Performing Arts High School playing Farrell, who is the drama...