Mimetic star performance can rob a fictional world of autonomous reality

Evidence

The problem with Sheen’s now well established approach to historical characters is that it deprives the film’s world of any autonomous reality – everything is indexed to a reality external to the film, judged only by how well it matches our already existing image of the character, whether that be Clough, Kenneth Williams, Blair or Frost. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 192

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses a common assumption that faithful mimicry strengthens a biopic; pairs with the chapter on fully aestheticized period settings killing lived worlds. — connects to: Matching corrupt worlds can still carry opposite political orientations — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 179; Individualist acting methods subordinate narrative form to autonomous character

Broader Connections

• Individualist acting methods subordinate narrative form to autonomous character #corroborates (0.85)