Self introduction and a question--reply

[Paul Arnold]

That is the context I have been looking for.  Thank you for the information
and quick reply.

Paul

On 8/8/07, Bill Tyler <tyler.20 at osu.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello, Paul--I think what you are getting at is not "take action" as in
> the case of the verb/noun "k?d?" / ?? which means "action" onbehalf of
> some cause or crusade.
>
> Rather, as in a TV or movie filming, "action"is a cue for the actors to
> get ready to perform or to be filmed.  In that case, the natural Japanese
> circumlocution is "honban" (or "honban desu" or
> "honban ni hairimasu").
>
> The characters are ?? ????? / ?????????
>
> The "ban" in the same ban as in "ichi-ban" ("Number 1" / ??).
> It combines with "hon" (which does not mean "book" in this case) to mean
> "the real number" or "the real turn."  In other words, the performance at
> hand is the real thing
> or the serious film shot as opposed to a rehearsal number.
>
> When a director wants his/her actors to perform as though the show were
> the real thing, s/he will announce this is the "honban".  I hope this is
> what you meant and that this helps.
>
>
>
> On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:25 AM, Paul Arnold wrote:
>
> Hello, My name is Paul Arnold.  I am, among other things, an actor and
> stage manager.  Right now, I'm working for a theatre in Texas, USA.  I
> actually really love listening to  the Japanese language in film.  I think
> the cadences of the language are so different and musical from any of the
> European languages.
>
> One of the shows I'm working on at the moment is using some Asian
> influence in the designs.  I've been trying to find the Japanese calligraphy
> character(s) that equates to the way an English-speaking film director might
> use the word "action!"  Even the spelling of the appropriate word in the
> Latin alphabet would be helpful (the Romanji spelling, I think is the term).
>
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Paul Arnold
>
>
> William J. Tyler
>
> Associate Professor, Japanese Language & Literature
>
> Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures
>
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>
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>
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>
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