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Originally posted by Stefan:
No one would (or should) shun you here for saying that Duce, it is a damn good point well made.
I wonder how willing re-enactors really are to find out what people went through, the more I think about it the less willing I get in many ways.
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I have to agree, well said.
I haven't done any re-enactments, but I can expand on that from the point of view as a professional actor. To portray a character properly you have to understand and empathise with their thoughts and feelings. In order to do that you have to get under their skin. Thats the easy bit for a trained actor. But the downside, when it's a difficult and emotive subject, is it can get to you in a big way and sometimes be impossible to put away when shooting ends or the show is over. Despite all this, you still know it's nothing compared to how it really felt!
Being a woman I can't really comment on men's emotions, 'cept to say you were given tear ducts for a reason chaps! [img]smile.gif[/img] And though us girlies have a better handle on crying, I'm not usually found crying in public if I can help it.
But I think you only have to be human to easily cry at our history. I've lost count at the amount of films and books I have been privvy to. But as well as deep sadness, I've also felt raging anger at, for example, what so called human beings did to people in death camps.
Sometimes looking into stuff like this can cause a roller coaster of emotions. Or is that just me being a typical woman?
