[FRIAM] Modeling 4chan: roles, topics, beliefs, strawman, anonymity, etc.

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OK. Again, I don't think I disagree with (what I think) you're saying.  But I am having trouble understanding why this is related to the difference between an undercover LEO versus a method actor. Are you willing to connect the dots more explicitly?

Although I agree with the gist of what you've said just below, I disagree with the (apparent) implication that an actor gets their story from *the* play/movie script.  From what I've heard, an actor has to dig into their private, more grounded, stories in order to do a good job exhibiting the emotion the play/movie script (and the director in particular) need.  Pile that ambiguity underneath the ambiguity that any good play/movie will *also* rely on the private stories inside the audience members.  And that goes beyond merely ambiguous endings or director/theater cuts.  It might lie in every inflection and movement of the actor(s).  An actor *without* a backstory, more finely granulated, than that presented in the script alone, will likely give a flatter/2D performance.  Even if (or especially because) the audience member can't "feel like"/empathize with the actor, they will likely have (or not) a "believability" or "suspension of disbelief" that percolates through the performance.



On 1/28/19 12:40 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I would again make a distinction between private stories and public stories.    I may delude myself, but I also have a set of experiences that are only mine and that I either could not or would not share.   My self-stories (and dreams) are grounded in a way the stories I read are not.   A fiction writer is trying to be entertaining, or at least sell books.   An opinion writer is trying to persuade or manipulate.     The actor's story comes from a script, and in that sense the it is static.   A diary is distinct from these.   There aren't the degrees of freedom available in a real life that are available to a writer inventing characters.    Empathy one extracts from a story is not actually empathy, it is something that has been teed up for the reader.


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