The actors engage in the exaggerated performance style of silent movie melodramas and comedies and Maddin digitally «ages» his films with scuffs and scratches and cracks and even distorted frames as if they were from decaying nitrate prints from the 1920s. (seanax.com)
Maddin is known for exhuming silent cinema through his signature use of hyper - melodramatic plots, exaggerated performance styles, trademark inter-titles, mismatches between images and sounds, and his recreations of aged or worn film stock. (sensesofcinema.com)
Variety's Peter Debruge, who did a story on the comparison, writes me: «Just thought I'd share a «Wall - E» insight: Pixar's been hearing the «Short Circuit» comparison a lot, but one thing director Andrew Stanton tried to avoid was the «dude in a suit» performance style for the character (or puppet - style «Fozzie Bear acting»). (rogerebert.com)