{"id":202529,"date":"2014-07-08T09:58:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T09:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/08\/aliasofwestgate-justira-reblogging-not-just\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T16:16:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T16:16:26","slug":"aliasofwestgate-justira-reblogging-not-just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/08\/aliasofwestgate-justira-reblogging-not-just\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-202529 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/08\/aliasofwestgate-justira-reblogging-not-just\/attachment\/202530\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n1seqn3b6S1s1m0nxo3_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/justira.tumblr.com\/post\/86644721821\/reblogging-not-just-because-special-effects-are\" target=\"_blank\">justira<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Reblogging not just because special effects are cool but because body doubles, stunt doubles, acting doubles, talent doubles \u2014 all the people whose faces we\u2019re not supposed to see but whose bodies make movies and tv shows possible \u2014 these people need and deserve more recognition. We see their bodies onscreen, delight in the shape and motion of those bodies, but even as we pick apart everything else that goes on both on and behind the screen, I just don\u2019t see the people who <em>are<\/em> those bodies getting the love and recognition they deserve.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re coming to love and recognize actors who work in full-body makeup\/costumes, such as Andy Serkis, or actors whose entire performances, or large chunks thereof, are motion captured or digitized (lately sometimes also Andy Serkis!). But people like Leander Deeny play an enormous part in making characters such as Steve Rogers come to life, too. Body language is a huge part of a performance and of characterization. For characters\/series with a lot of action, a stunt person can have a huge influence on how we read and interpret a character, such as the influence Heidi Moneymaker has had on the style and choreography of Black Widow\u2019s signature fighting style. Talent doubles breathe believability and discipline-specific nuance into demanding storylines.<\/p>\n<p>Actors are creative people themselves, and incredibly important in building the characters we see onscreen. But if we agree that they\u2019re more than dancing monkeys who just do whatever the directors\/writers say, then we have to agree that doubles are more than that, too. Doubles make creative decisions too, and often form strong, mutually supportive relationship with actors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themarysue.tumblr.com\/post\/85366903076\/tatiana-maslany-on-kathryn-alexandre-there-were\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/563dad20a832efcf60dfb62ad5198354\/tumblr_inline_n61yiwUtWe1qg68qt.gif\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themarysue.tumblr.com\/post\/85366903076\/tatiana-maslany-on-kathryn-alexandre-there-were\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/d2b39f957d5381d7ca86157a42d62f7f\/tumblr_inline_n61ylds4H91qg68qt.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Image 1:<em> \u201cI would like to thank Kathryn Alexandre, the most generous actor I\u2019ve ever worked opposite.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Image 2:<em> \u201cKathryn who\u2019s playing my double who\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[ <em>Orphan Black<\/em>&rsquo;s Tatiana Maslany on her acting double, Kathryn Alexandre, two images from <a href=\"http:\/\/themarysue.tumblr.com\/post\/85366903076\/tatiana-maslany-on-kathryn-alexandre-there-were\" target=\"_blank\">a set<\/a> on <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mUtCkWrucNcGdUmChPghRgw\" target=\"_blank\">themarysue<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeofkj.tumblr.com\/post\/85370950385\/themarysue-tatiana-maslany-on-kathryn\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a> <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/maD6995IKrtyPEYGFMX971A\" target=\"_blank\">lifeofkj<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/698f37d6449d2c7fe813270693367c0a\/tumblr_inline_n61ysi3SLH1qg68qt.gif\" \/>\u00a0<img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/bf818d7f8eb98cb7d8492ebdbc7309c5\/tumblr_inline_n61yvup8IJ1qg68qt.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/544fb3a7dc453fc487cddc7e19631ef3\/tumblr_inline_n61yxykxQ81qg68qt.gif\" \/>\u00a0<img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/38da7601ae67295694ec024140d4412e\/tumblr_inline_n61yyntJjh1qg68qt.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve got a relationship that goes back many, many years with Dave. And I would hate for people to just see that image of me and Dave and go, \u201coh, there\u2019s Dan Radcliffe with a person in a wheelchair.\u201d Because I would never even for a moment want them to assume that Dave was anything except for an incredibly important person in my life.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[ Daniel Radcliffe talking about David Holmes, his stunt double for 2001-2009, who was paralysed while working on the Harry Potter films. David Holmes relates his story\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/real-life-stories\/harry-potter-stuntman-david-holmes-3279214\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Gifset <a href=\"http:\/\/smeagoled.tumblr.com\/post\/42708102353\/daniel-radcliffe-talking-about-his-old-stunt\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a> <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mczjkTzCFOZlz2yhnlTBsOg\" target=\"_blank\">smeagoled<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>With modern tv- and film-making techniques, many characters are composite creations. The characters we see onscreen or onstage have always been team efforts, with writers, directors, makeup artists, costume designers, special effects artists, production designers, and many other people all contributing to how a character is ultimately realized in front of us. Many different techniques go into something like the creation of Skinny Steve \u2014 he\u2019s no more all Leander Deeny than he is all Chris Evans.<\/p>\n<p>But as fandom dissects the anatomy of scenes in ever-increasing detail to get at microexpressions and the minutiae of body language, let\u2019s recognize the anatomy <em>in<\/em> the scenes, too. I don\u2019t mean to take away from the work Chris Evans or any other actors do (he is an amazing Steve Rogers and I love him tons), but fandom needs to do better in recognizing the bodies, the other <em>people<\/em>, who make up the characters we love and some of our very favourite shots of them. Chris Evans has an amazing body, but so does Leander Deeny \u2014 that body is beautiful; that body mimicked Chris Evans\u2019s motions with amazing, skilled precision; that body moved Steve Rogers with emotion and grace and character.<\/p>\n<p>Fandom should do better than productions and creators who <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Swan_dance_double_controversy\" target=\"_blank\">fail to be transparent<\/a> about the doubles in their productions. On the screen, suspension of disbelief is key and the goal is to make all the effort that went into the production vanish and leave only the product itself behind. But when the film is over and the episode ends, let\u2019s remember everyone who helped make that happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeofkj.tumblr.com\/post\/86333882203\/permissiontogoafterhim-meet-the-real-action\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/3fe07acfb3c55da2eee1be1c1716ecb3\/tumblr_inline_n61zjgG4OT1qg68qt.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\u00a0Sam Hargrave (stunt double for Chris Evans) and James Young (stunt double for Sebastian Stan, and fight choreographer), seen from behind, exchange a fistbump while in costume on the set of <em>Captain America: The Winter Soldier<\/em>. Image <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeofkj.tumblr.com\/post\/86333882203\/permissiontogoafterhim-meet-the-real-action\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a> <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/maD6995IKrtyPEYGFMX971A\" target=\"_blank\">lifeofkj<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I applaud these guys as much as the suit actors in my japanese tokusatsu shows. They do just as much work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>aliasofwestgate: justira: Reblogging not just because special effects are cool but because body doubles, stunt doubles, acting doubles, talent doubles \u2014 all the people whose faces we\u2019re not supposed to see but whose bodies make movies and tv shows possible \u2014 these people need and deserve more recognition. We see their bodies onscreen, delight in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/08\/aliasofwestgate-justira-reblogging-not-just\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[451,21601,21600,21599,21598],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202538,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202529\/revisions\/202538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}