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06. Mar 2011 at 01:48
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Often I wonder, how do these kids do it.
Do they play tricks on us?
Are they using onions to produce tears?
I honestly like to believe they don't.
Here is one of my favourite actors.

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Reply #1 - 06. Mar 2011 at 02:20
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I think some kids can produce real tears however sometimes i think the get help for the makeup department in the crying scenes Elijah Wood said  something about this is a interview he did as a kid.

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most realistic crying scene i ever saw Haley actual had snot coming out if his nose.  gross but realistic
  
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Reply #2 - 06. Mar 2011 at 02:29
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gee wrote on 06. Mar 2011 at 02:20:
I think some kids can produce real tears however sometimes i think the get help for the makeup department in the crying scenes Elijah Wood said  something about this is a interview he did as a kid.

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most realistic crying scene i ever saw Haley actual had snot coming out if his nose.  gross but realistic

Thanks a lot, Gee.
The link you provided didn't work, but I'll search the internet for that interview. Shouldn't be too hard.
As for the Joel Haley Osment connection: I think I have most films he did. Great actor and a lovely demeanor.
Maybe I'll start a topic on him some day.
  
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Reply #3 - 06. Mar 2011 at 03:16
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I think I recall in the extras on the DVD "Bogus" Haley explains how he does it.
  
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Reply #4 - 06. Mar 2011 at 04:08
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the link was for a haley pic not the Elijah article.
  
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Reply #5 - 06. Mar 2011 at 04:33
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Thank you, Gee, my search has begun.
Here is one of Haley's earliest pictures.

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Reply #6 - 09. Mar 2011 at 09:04
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In asian movies the directors usually yell abuse at the kid actors or if that doesn't work they hit them until they cry for real.
  
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Reply #7 - 09. Mar 2011 at 13:46
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cal-Q-L8 wrote on 09. Mar 2011 at 09:04:
In asian movies the directors usually yell abuse at the kid actors or if that doesn't work they hit them until they cry for real. 


I feel like that's probably a bit of a stereotype. Maybe it does happen, but I don't think every Asian director works that way. I think I've read enough interviews with Asian directors to say this probably doesn't apply to most of them.
  
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Reply #8 - 09. Mar 2011 at 17:41
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josephk wrote on 09. Mar 2011 at 13:46:
cal-Q-L8 wrote on 09. Mar 2011 at 09:04:
In asian movies the directors usually yell abuse at the kid actors or if that doesn't work they hit them until they cry for real. 


I feel like that's probably a bit of a stereotype. Maybe it does happen, but I don't think every Asian director works that way. I think I've read enough interviews with Asian directors to say this probably doesn't apply to most of them.


I know I was kidding, well sort of, I believe it does happen though. In America to get boy actors to cry they tell them that they are adopted or that they are actually Canadians.  Smiley  No, that's not true, it's more like, "Your mum (or mom) just phoned and said to tell you your dog is dead, happy birthday! Camera!".
  
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Reply #9 - 12. Mar 2011 at 22:58
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the haley movie you wre refering to is called    a cab to canada
  
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Reply #10 - 27. Mar 2011 at 04:38
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cal-Q-L8 wrote on 09. Mar 2011 at 17:41:
In America to get boy actors to cry they tell them that they are adopted or that they are actually Canadians.  Smiley  No, that's not true, it's more like, "Your mum (or mom) just phoned and said to tell you your dog is dead, happy birthday! Camera!".


I once read a story that Jackie Cooper's uncle Norman Taurog was directing him in a film and used that very trick (the dog one - not the Canadian one  Tongue) to get him to cry on screen.
  
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