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Ghost Dog finds its behavioral rhythm in the commanding stillness and loping gait of Whitaker, the star of Bird and director of Waiting to Exhale, who perfectly embodies Jarmusch's anachronistic antihero. The director knew that Whitaker had nailed the part one day when they met to talk about a complex swordplay scene on Ghost Dog's roof. "So we're walking from my loft in the east Bowery to East River Park," Jarmusch recalls. "Forest has his sword in his knapsack. We get to the park, and he says, 'Let me just show you a few things...
...mathematician's ears, there is something else going on. Typically, after a few seconds of chaotic clapping, an audience will slip into synchronized applause, like two people adjusting their strides until they walk in step. But just as walkers will reassert their natural gait, a clap-happy audience will fall in and out of synch repeatedly. According to a study of ovations in Romania and Hungary, this back-and-forthing is due to conflicting needs: the wish to make the most possible noise (random clapping) vs. the urge to clap in unison. People switch from one to the other...
...work in the morning. Instead of a business suit or perhaps his military uniform, he's wearing jeans, an old army jacket and--get this--an Afro wig, a bushy brown beard and some makeup to darken his eyebrows. To ensure he won't be recognized even by his gait, he drops a pebble in his shoe to effect a limp. "It's a shock!" the Queen says as she and Abdullah share a chuckle during an interview with TIME. "The wig," she jokes, nudging her husband, "needs a bit of work." Adds Abdullah: "The kids think it's hilarious...
...with horrible detail. There have been tales of his boatmates who, when they realized their loved ones had drowned in the night, stopped treading water and went to join them. And hints of how Elian's mother Elizabet, 29, a woman with deep, happy eyes and a proud Latin gait, bound him to that inner tube even as she fought to stay alive. And even a coroner's description of how Elian's tube trailed behind it the body of 61-year-old Merida Barrios, who had been strangled by one of the raft ropes, and floated, like bait, yards...
...tension. For Roedel and Chiles, risking life and limb is simply one more game. The charade is pervasive, as Ulrich looks entirely out of place in his Civil War era costume, especially given his role in Scream. Maguire tries entirely too hard to appear genuinely Southern, for even his gait is a self-conscious swagger...