HINDU ORIGIN OF MODERN MOVIE BUSINESS

[masood...@my-dejanews.com]

Folks, do u think there is any truth in Habib Imam's claim of Konstantin
Stanislavsky's Method Acting having originated from Hindu rituals ??
Discounting Habib's usual anti-muslim diatribes ?? For one thing I think
Stanislavsky was Jewish....

Masood

In article <6nd11d$g80$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
habib...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> Asalamalikum from brother habib imam ! WOW No anti-muslim obsceneties for 3
> straight days !! I bet Muslims are abandoning Islam in droves, their
> collective sighs of joy calming my rage !!! Anyway here I excerpt a term
> paper I had written 4 my Theater 101 class 4 years ago. (May I inquire if
> anyone can put this up on a site such as Jai's Jayate site ??? Preferably
> after due verification of historical facts ??)
>
> Hollywood, and in general commercial cinema worldwide, produces a lot of crap
> and a few good ones. Either way, it makes a HUGE amount of money and holds
> HUGE mindshare in the entire world, and Most Importantly, has transformed the
> Motion Picture into the most potent communication medium in Human History.
> The mega success of Hollywood (and similiar genre) worldwide is attributed to
> the uncanny REALISM and PROFESSIONALISM of its actors, sets and marketers. It
> achieves total SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF, forever hypnotizing and enfranchising
> every veiwer...
>
> That Jewish business and creative genius made Hollywood what it is, is well
> known. But, would u believe Hollywood owes the original roots of this MEGA
> success formula directly to HINDUISM ??!!! Its true !! Read on to find out
> how...
>
> The core techniques of Realism and Suspension of Disbelief, are collectively
> called METHOD ACTING. This (or variations thereof) is used by every single
> actor WORLDWIDE (Hollywood esply). Method Acting, or simply The Method was
> invented and pioneered by a Russian genius actor/director Konstantin
> Stanislavsky (1868-1938). Lee Strasborg and Stella Adler learnt it from
> Stanislavski and brought it to Hollywood. Eventually EVERY Hollywood actor
> (Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Robert Di Niro, Dustin Hoffman, even pretty
> faces Marylin Monroe and Tom Cruise) are students of this method. So where is
> the Hindu origin of Method acting ??
>
> Up until Stanislavski, ALL world theater and cinema was based on classical
> Greek techniques - very ornamental, heavitly musical, operatic. But this also
> made it elitist and mass audiences found it boring. Stanislavski a brilliant
> theatrical genius, found that with classical acting, he could do no justice to
> Chekov, Tolstoy and other writers of intense human condition.
>
> So to achieve realism in actors and achieve total audience rapport with
> suspension of disbelief, he decided to induce temporary but intense states of
> emotional and psychological openness in the actors. In this state, the actors
> wud strive to TOTALLY BECOME the character they depict, in body and mind,
> instead of just merely PLAYING the role. Now this was fine as a concept but he
> found actors just COULD NOT open their minds consistently enuf to TRANSMUTE
> into another imaginary person. This is when Stanislavsky remembered some HINDU
> RIGVEDIC/YOGIC psycho-sprititual techniques he had learnt when he lived on LEO
> TOLSTOY's communes.
>
> Tolstoy had founded his communes as a socio-cultural refuge from the tyranny
> of the Czar and the Church. These communes also attracted North Indians (esp
> Afghans), Iranians (Bahaii, Zoroaster), Georgians, Armenians, Jews and other
> European and Asian peoples fleeing despotic Islamic and christian colonial
> empires of the Ottomans and other European powers. In the communes, Tolstoy
> (and Stanislavsky) and others synthesized the humanistic aspects of otherwise
> despotic religions (Islam and Orthodox Christianity) into a
> spiritual/mystical syncrecy based on practice of expressive ritual, sensory
> modulation, symbol worship, and direct psycho-spirtual connection with each
> other and God.
>
> The core practices of daily life in Tolstoy communes were - VOLUNTARY
> VEGETARIANISM and HINDU RIGVEDIC practices of RYTHMIC CHANTING, YOGA,
> PRANAYAMA, MEDITATION, SENSORY OCCLUSION/MODULATION and AVATARIC TRANCE
> INDUCTION !!! As is well known, Tolstoy was heavily influenced by Hinduism and
> Buddhism, which actually made him rebel against Christian and Czarist tyranny
> in the first place. Descendants of such mystical comunes exist even today
> worldwide (Dukhobors in Canada, Molokans in Turkey and other such).
>
> These essentially Hindu practices, Stanislavsky found, could transform any
> person's mind into an intense psycho-spiritual state of openness,
> receptiveness, connectedness and empathy with other people as well as even
> the inanimate environment. This was precisely the state of mind actors needed
> to be in, in order to TRANSMUTE into the characters they play, instead of
> just animating the role.
>
> So Stanislavsky evolved a systematic set of techniques borrowed from Rigvedic
> Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism - pranayamic breathing, rythmic chant-like
> reading, kinesthetic sequences similiar to Tai-Chi, meditative imagery
> induction, self-analysis, sensory occlusion and sensory transmutation (truely
> FEEL like a blind person) ... and so on.
>
> The success of plays and movies based on this Hinduism derived acting
> technique, spread like wildfire worldwide, and the rest, as they say, is
> History. Remember to thank Hinduism, every time u watch such astonishing
> performances as Meryl Streep in Bridges of Madison County, Dustin Hoffman in
> RainMan, Robert Di Niro in Raging Bull, Al Pacino in Godfather, Marlon Brando
> in Last Temptation of Christ, or Denzel Washington in Malcom X.
>
> So there, brothers, is how the modern mega-billion dollar movie industry (incl
> Hollywood) owes it to Hinduism and (why am i not surprised) the Jewish
> community that so successfully adopted and propagated Stanislavsky's Hinduism
> derived Method Acting.
>
> Peace,
> Habib Imam

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