(07-28-2017, 06:17 PM)Verad Wrote: <snip>
This is where I personally sit myself. I prefer the term engaged; and I've just seen too much go wrong with "immersion" like the examples you gave Verad (ie. your spirituality comment... but further extreme). I've been stalked by these types of people (those who say 'I am a methodactor/immersion rper; this isn't to say that all immersion rpers are this way and I have close friends who are immersion rpers but- it seems to happen more frequently where people cannot disconnect themselves from their character.) and I personally do not want to involve myself with the term because for me it's become almost a negative term. Which is unfortunate but it also goes back to the method acting I had mentioned; there's something even 'negative' when people discuss method acting. I remember seeing this in some debate with Jared Leto- because he became very psychopathic with his Joker role; even off screen and would terrify his fellow actors sometimes. It's stuff like that which I just prefer to divert myself from the term 'immersion'.
One thing to add on (yet again) is that; unlike method acting- where you go through professional training (ie. acting school etc) a lot of times- the person has a 'cooling down period' which method-rping/immersion rpers often do not have and a lot stay in that sort of mindset continuously and it starts becoming a problem. However there's also been a lot of controversy with method acting where actors take it too far as well. Apparently; Anthony Hopkins dislikes method acting.
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