How do actors and actresses memorize a play or movie?

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Is there some special method to remembering an entire play or movie without having to refer to your lines? I can barely remember one paragraph of lines to the tee, let alone hundreds of pages of lines. Thanks!

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It is much easier to remember things that require vocal inflections and emotions, than it is something monotone. There’s a reason that you easily remember your favorite song but not pages out of your favorite book.

As a guitar player people ask me how do I know songs by heart, and I think it’s because of the nature of music itself, not the volume or lack thereof of the music. Plus as lots of people said, there’s tricks of the trade. If I know something is in E, I can fake my way through it with something close. Like if an actor knows the subject matter they’re talking about, they can get close.

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