Fences, August Wilson

As illustrative of the sympathetic of analysis I would bring to Fences, by August Wilson, if my bid to direct is successful, O prose to instruct direction for a part of Act 1, Scene 3 of the play. This will include possible blocking, camera work, music, and what the worker should be liveing and experiencing while acting the part. I will examine how crucial it is that the actors portray their characters effectively, and I will offer commentary to assure proficient that.On the basis of these findings I will determine the modus operandi of this scene in the whole play and how the characters and ensuing events of play are necessarily different be induct of the front of this scene and the manner in which its conflicts are resolved. To set the scene, troy weight and Cory are debating with one another Corys goals and aspirations in lifetime season. It is Corys dream to play football game, to receive a scholarship to play at wedlock Carolina. In troy weights eyes, his son is wa sting his time.Using his experience and his past ventures in the sports world when he was younger, Troy has created this illusion that black men would never thrive and succeed in professional sports. He says, The colored guy got to be as twice as good before he soak up on the team. Thats why I dont want you to conquer all tied up in them sports. Instead of pursuing a failed career, Troy wants Cory to work in the A&P and picture a trade such as fixing cars or building homes. Cory is in scruple that his dad would deny his dreams and aspirations. TROY. You accurse obligation you areAnd aint no need for nix coming around here to talk to me ab forth singing nothing. *distraught, the feeling one should feel when a football game should have been won, when victory was imminent, just now with plunk fors left the opposing team somehow pulls of a miracle play to win the game themselves. Cory should feel that his dreams are so close to beginning but in concomitant over because his da d refuses to support him* -camera zooms in on a distraught and shocked cory- CORY. (softly) Hey, bulk you tummyt do that. Hes coming all the way from North Carolina. TROY. (almost chuckling, firm) I dont care where he coming from. walks up to Cory and gets in his face, almost asserting himself directly, as to make a crucial point) The white man aint gonna let you get nowhere with that football no way. You go on and get your book-learning so you can work yourself up in that A&P or lean how to fix cars or build houses or something, get you a trade. That way you have something cant nobody take away from you. You go on and learn how to prescribe your hands to some good use. Besides hauling peoples garbage. -camera focuses recompense hold to Corys face- CORY. (almost pleading) I get good grades, Pop. Thats why the recruiter wants to talk to with you.You got to keep up your grades to get recruited. This way Ill be going to college. Ill get a chance -camera zooms out to have Troy t urning his back on Cory, doing something entirely irrelevant- *at this point the actor acting Troy should almost be done with arguing with Cory, so sure on his stance that any enounce coming out of Cory could never convince him letting his son play football. The actor should feel irritated that the argument is tacit going, because he should feel that no more talking is necessary. Whats persistent has been decided* TROY. (interrupting) First you gonna get your butt down there to the A&P and get your job back.CORY. (annoyed that his become is not ensureing him) Mr. Stawicki done already hired somebody else cause I told him I was playing football. TROY. (stunned turns back around and confronts Cory) You a bigger fool that I thought to let somebody take away your job so you can play football. Where you gonna get your money to take out your female child and whatnot? What kind of foolishness is that to let somebody take away your job? *Troy should feel almost hopeless for Cory, that he feels like a bad father for letting his son ring that it was okay for him to give up his job.For Troy, a job meant a steady income, the crucial number find the future of life. For example, taking care of the family and girlfri force out. Losing a job to someone else means to lose the meaning of life to Troy, and he feels disgusted his son has done this* CORY. (a bit naive) Im still gonna be on the job(p) weekends. TROY. (not having any of his sons foolishness) Naw naw. You getting your butt out of here and finding you another job. CORY. (again, pleading) draw on, Pop I got to practice. I cant work later school and play football too. The team needs me. Thats what Coach Zellman say TROY. yelling, declaring himself the alpha male, making himself heard) camera captures takes of Rose in the house, hearing him yelling- I dont care what nobody else say. Im the boss you go steady? Im the boss around here. I do the just now saying what counts. CORY. Come on Pop (throws hand s up in extreme frustration) TROY. I asked you did you understand? CORY. Yeah TROY. What? CORY. (a shrimpy defeated) Yessir. TROY. You go on down there to that A&P and see if you can get your job back. If you cant do both then you quit the football team. Youve go to take the crookeds with the straights. CORY. hurt) camera holds still on Troy and Cory in the shot- *at this point, a full 5 second pause should be experienced, to set up Corys loaded question. He doesnt understand why his father is treating him in this way, denying his hopes and dreams* Can I ask you a question? TROY. What the hell you wanna ask me? Mr. Stawicki the one you got the question for. CORY. (3 second pause, looks at Troy and scans him for attention) How come you aint never liked me? *Troy is a little taken back from this loaded question his son has proposed to him, but instead of feeling compassion, he starts to speak and start an outburst*TROY. (after another pause) Liked you? Who the hell say I got to l ike you? What law is there say I got to like you? Wanna stand up in my face and ask a damn fool-ass question like that. Talking about liking somebody. Come here, boy, when I talk to you. -camera shifts as Cory has begun to withdrawnness himself from his father, but snaps back into his fathers grip as he gravitates back toward Troy to take care to his rant. Cory should seem as he is starting to regret asking this question- TROY. Straighten up, god dammit I asked you a question what law is there say I go to like you? CORY. coldly, as if one is responding to a monotonous interactive childrens TV show ) None. TROY. Well, all right then Dont you eat any day? (short pause, Troy does not mean to pose a rhetorical question, wants Cory to answer, but he does not) Answer me when I talk to you Dont you eat every day? CORY. (coldly, this time almost bitter and blunt) Yeah. TROY. (fed up with Corys disrespect and tone) Nigger, as long as you in my house, you put that sir on the end of it whe n you talk to me. CORY. (this time, a little mockingly) Yes sir. TROY. (hammering his point across into Corys head) You eat every day.CORY. (now in a marine like tone, but still mockingly, Troy does not pick up on it) Yessir TROY. Got a roof over your head. CORY. Yessir TROY. Got clothes on your back. CORY. (no marine tone, tired of the answering) Yessir. TROY. Why you compute that is? CORY. Cause of you. TROY. Aw, hell I know its cause of me but why do you sound off that is? -camera views shot of a Troy ready to go off, almost guaranteeing explosion but still endowment Cory a chance to answer a question with no correct answer. CORY. (knowing this, answers hesitantly) Cause you like me. *at this point, Troy has gone mad.He has had enough of his sons foolishness and starts an outburst, ranting, but ranting with no existing directionranting on emotion and impulse. The point the actor should send across to the audience is that Troy does not have any interest in his son other than assuring he lives with the right essentialsalmost as if Cory was a burden, rather than a son. It should not be apparent that Troy actually knows and is processing the words that are coming out of his mouth. Any normal, levelheaded, morally sound father would and should never say what Troy would say next in his rant.In Troys mind, Cory is just a tariff and a nuisance that he needs to take care of. * TROY. Like you? I go out of here every morning bust my butt.. putting up with them crackers every day cause I like you? You about the biggest fool I ever saw. (pause) Its my job. Its my responsibility You understand that? A man goes to take care of his family Dont you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you. You understand what Im saying boy? CORY. *Cory is stunned.His own father, has just told him that he does not roll in the hay him or like him, or have to, for that matter. Cory, usually with something to say or argue with against his father, after this rant, has nothing left to say. Troys words has pierced him through his heart, and he realizes now that he no longer can convince his father to support him in his dreams. He can only respond with one word* Yessir. TROY. (adding insult to injury, giving no remorse for the words he has just spoken to towards his son) Then get the hell out of my face, and get on down to that A&P. end direction- On the basis of my findings and examinations of the scene, I believe the function of this scene shows the relationship of Troy and Cory, and how Cory begins to resent and go down his father more and more. Troy is visibly different, changing from the casual, joking, and laid-back drinking man on Friday nights, to a heartless and stout individual. It shows how his lack of love for his son may reflect on the lack of love for his wife Rose, as we find out later in the play Troy has in fact cheated on his wife.