Pratica di Shadowing: Robert De Niro on Acting - Michael Parkinson Interview [1981] - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Alec Guinness once said on the show
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that I asked him what he had to do before he got into a character
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and he said he had to get the walk right.
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Right.
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But you actually, you research them, don't you?
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You go and live like them before you do the part.
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Well, what he says is very true for me too because some actors work cerebrally, some work physically.
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I like to work physically a lot of times it helps me feel like, I mean clothes, putting on certain clothes can give you a feeling of another character,
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which it does to actual people who are characters.
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It helps them identify with the role that they want to play in life, be a businessman or whatever they want to, you know.
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And one thing can give it to you.
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A walk can give it to you.
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Just that one walk, you can play that one thing through a whole play or a movie and it can do it.
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So I agree with that, you know.
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The point I was going to make, of course, was that...
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I do the other two.
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Yeah, I mean, the way when you did Taxi Driver, for instance, I mean, you went and actually worked as a cabbie, didn't you?
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Yeah.
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Did anybody ever recognize you then?
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Only once or twice.
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Once I had an actor who wanted me to take him to the airport and he recognized me.
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So the whole thing was blown because I couldn't, you know, all we could do was talk about acting.
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And I didn't want him to pay me.
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But he insisted on paying me.
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I said, okay, pay me.
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No tip, though.
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And the other time I just, some people got out of the cab and I looked at his eyes.
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You know, you have a plaque with your name on it.
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I turned that around so nobody could see the name, which a lot of cabbies do anyway.
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And I looked him in the eye and the guy recognized me right away and just said, you were in Godfather II, he recognized me from that. And that was it.
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Otherwise, people don't even look at you, they don't know.
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You know, it's like a waiter in a restaurant.
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They don't, you know, you don't exist in a way.
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That was kind of...
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And in New York, New York as well, you actually learned how to play the instrument, the sax, didn't you?
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Although, I mean, you needn't have done because you could have mimed it because the music wasn't yours, was it?
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No, it wasn't mine.
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It was done by George Yeo, except that I wanted to learn the fingering, which I did.
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And I learned how to play everything in the movie.
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It wasn't, the whole point was not to learn how to play the sax to be,
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you know, I could never play it as well as he did or the way Jake fights and so on.
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But the movies are an illusion and the whole point is to be able to recreate this without looking like a fool.
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I didn't want to look like I didn't know what I was doing because when I look at a movie, I see, you know, somebody with the fingering, for example, they're all out of, you know, they're all on step, out of sync.
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Playing a jazz musician.
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And I want to throw it away.
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The point is to learn to throw it away the way a person who actually does know it, they don't over-emphasize it.
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It's like an actor who overacts because they don't really know the situation and don't have the confidence to just be, you know, be straight.
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Robert, you're at the top of the tree now.
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You've got a very strongly tip for a second Academy Award.
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Yet I do know for a certain fact that you don't like the thing about the, the traditional trappings of being a film star, do you?
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In some ways, yeah.
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You don't like them?
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Well, only that...
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as far as the.. being recognized in certain situations, you like a certain amount of privacy.
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And, no, but I enjoy it, don't get me wrong.
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I mean, certain things are drag, but that's part of it.
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I have no complaints whatsoever.
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What about your next project?
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What are you going to do?
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That's called The King of Comedy, and I'm doing it with Jerry Lewis, and Marty Scorsese is going to direct it.
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It's about a guy who kidnaps someone like yourself.
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A chat show host.
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Yeah, to get on the show and do his act, which turns out to be very good.
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You've not been doing any research while we've been sitting here, have you?
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No. No, you haven't?
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No. All right.
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But all success with that, all success too with Raging Bull.
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As I say, I do hope it gets a wider audience because it is a magnificent movie.
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It's not what you call family entertainment of its kind.
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I think it's one of the best movies I've ever seen.
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Robert De Niro.
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Thank you.

Per chi è questo video?

Questo video è ideale per gli appassionati di inglese a livello intermedio o avanzato che vogliono migliorare la pronuncia inglese e la comprensione di conversazioni spontanee. È perfetto per chi cerca di approfondire la lingua attraverso esempi reali, come interviste, e per coloro che vogliono esercitarsi con il shadowing (o shadowspeaks), una tecnica efficace per imitare l'intonazione e il ritmo dei madrelingua. I dialoghi tra Robert De Niro e Michael Parkinson offrono un mix di linguaggio colloquiale e riflessioni profonde, ideali per la pratica di conversazione in inglese.

Parole e modi di dire da non perdere

Ecco alcuni espressioni chiave del video con una breve spiegazione:

  • To get the walk right: "Avere la camminata giusta". Si riferisce a trovare il modo corretto di muoversi per interpretare un personaggio.
  • Blown (in "the whole thing was blown"): "Rivelato". Significa che il segreto è stato scoperto.
  • To throw it away: "Lasciarlo andare" o "Non overdoing it". In questo contesto, si riferisce a non esagerare nell'azione, per sembrare naturale.
  • Trappings (in "traditional trappings of being a film star"): "Attribuzioni" o "accessori". Indica i simboli o le abitudini legate a un ruolo sociale.

Come migliorare la pronuncia con questo video

Robert De Niro ha un accento statunitense chiaro e un ritmo conversazionale che si presta bene al shadow speak. Ecco due consigli per esercitarti:

  • Ritmo e pausa: Ascolta come De Niro usa le pause per enfatizzare le sue riflessioni, soprattutto quando parla di tecniche di recitazione. Imitane il flusso, cercando di non "correre" le frasi. Questo aiuterà a rendere la tua conversazione più naturale.
  • Enfasi sulle sillabe: Molte parole nel video, come "cerebrally" o "over-emphasize", hanno accenti su sillabe specifiche. Prendi nota di come De Niro le pronuncia e ripetile a voce alta, concentrandoti su quelle sillabe. Questo migliorerà la tua chiarezza nella pronuncia inglese.

Con la pratica regolare del shadowing e l'analisi di questi dettagli, potrai rafforzare la tua confidenza nella conversazione e avvicinarti al livello dei madrelingua.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.