It's a slim volume so expensive for what it is, but if you're looking for help you'll find some nuggets of wisdom. HE IS A LEGEND IN THE ACTING FIELD; HOWEVER, HIS INSIGHT/INSTRUCTION IS VERY VALUABLE; HIS PRESENTATION SIMPLE AND HE IS EXTREMELY PATIENT AND PRECISE. Me encantó, no profundiza demasiado en la actuación, quizás porque está hecho para gente que ya tiene base, pero también es muy buen libro para quién no sepa de actuación porque es divertido, ligero, al punto. Interspersed with touches of his usual east end humour, Michael Caines' guide to acting is an invaluable pocket guide for the aspiring actor.

Me parece que equilibró bastante bien las historias personales (con las que varias veces me reí bastante), las opiniones, consejos sobre la técnica y el trabajo en equipo. Mr Caine knows exactly what he’s doing and his advice is the most helpful I’ve found so far on acting for the camera.I did very much enjoy what Caine had to say, even when I did not understand what he was talking about. This is a rather fascinating hour long documentary where Michael Caine teaches a small group of students how much different it is to act for the camera, as opposed to a live audience. He is a major Hollywood film star and two-time Academy Award winner with a career spanning over sixty years. I questioned this with the seller and he - Gary from Quantum Leap - assured me there should be no problem.

This new revised and expanded edition features great photos throughout, with chapters on: Preparation, In Front of the Camera - Before You Shoot, The Take, Characters, Directors, On Being a Star, and much more. His first major starring roles, beginning in the 1960s, include 'Zulu,' 'The Ipcress File,' and 'Alfie. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Rather than try explaining everything with endless details, Michael Caine just gives it to the reader plain and simple, which is the reason why i truly appreciate this book.Professionalism and personal advice is covered, as well as more technical advice in acting before the camera, and the differences between acting on stage and acting on camera. I've been fascinated by filmmaking in recent years (especially after watching the Korean drama Alchemy of Souls) and want to learn as much as possible about what goes on behind the scenes. He tells you about competitveness bewteen actors that some thrive on, but he does not like to be competitive and does not think it helps his acting career to be like that.

I found some surprising info here, little-known rules-of-thumb for entertainers I wouldn't have been able to guess at. The close-up camera he tells us can pick up the minutest fluctuations in emotion and magnify them hugely, the close-up camera misses nothing, he says, it registers every subtle change on our faces and in our eyes, which is why he says actors must master it, or their performance will not be believed by the audience. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Caine talks about being given the part for Zulu stating that the director's wanted a posh actor, someone that spoke very upper class for the role.Caine always loves to talk about his rough-and-tumble cockney upbringing; I guess I can't blame him. Acting students attending auditions now might face a completely different landscape when it comes to auditions and getting parts.