Not exact matches
One thing that I noticed is when I do my work and look at my lines and kind of dissect and find the
emotional parts in the
scene, I go through it a couple of times in the night before and in the morning and when I get to work
often times over the last year I found that it just there, it's there and it's at my beck and call.
The fight
scenes are impressive, the straight - acting
scenes less so: though he was capable of delivering a good performance, Steele
often as not ran the
emotional gamut from A to B. Arizona Gunfighter was one of several Steele westerns produced by A.W. Hackel for Republic release.
Glitter - filled, chaotic, and
often bizarre (one key
emotional scene is acted out by two young girls playing with Barbie dolls, a nod to Haynes» earlier Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story), Velvet Goldmine nevertheless possesses a wonderfully observed humanity to go with its aggressive experimentalism.
That makes for a cold, pretty, delicate movie — one that too
often relies on
scene - stealing production design or the overwhelmingly insipid score for its otherwise strikingly absent
emotional power.
For a film that, as its plot demands,
often features bodies in extreme physical proximity — embracing, fucking, fighting — The Lovers also pays close attention to the spatial (and
emotional) chasms separating its constellation of couples, evidenced in the softly shattering opening
scene.
Another frustration within the film is constantly missed opportunities to pack
emotional punches and the film miscues moments far too
often with only a
scene between Bale and Saldana at a bridge encounter showcasing the
emotional heft needed to do so.
We believe and empathize with Mary Elizabeth Winstead when she's upset
often as she's a good actress that can sell a
scene, but we don't always believe the situation or the sequence that got her from
emotional point A to B. And this obviously hurts the movie and the viewer's engagement in it, and that's not all.
(The
scenes of affection between the two leads
often have the physically imposing Flynn frequently resting his head close to Davis» bosom, with legs sprawled across the floor like an adoring puppy; it's an unusual stance for a male Hollywood star, and the
emotional vulnerability of Flynn's performance must have boosted his female fan - base.)
Because of that structure, critique groups are
often better with writing craft issues on a smaller scale (clarifying sentences or paragraphs,
scene goals, immediate motivations, dialogue passages, etc.) than on a story - sized scale (character development, plot flow, story goals and motivations, themes,
emotional arcs, etc.).
Every so
often, you're treated to a
scene of her striking one of her signature poses as the visor on her helmet flashes to life automatically, as if in response to her heightened
emotional state.