Word: off-screen
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...don’t regret when I pass on something and I see somebody else have success with it.” Ford may be confident that he doesn’t do “action” roles, but he seems less certain of his off-screen persona and how it contributes to the way moviegoers experience his performances. “It may well be that people are relating more to what they take to be my persona, but my persona is a dramatic construction of its own,” he claimed. “Perception...
...battle the armed police and National Guard patrols with makeshift weapons, and the law enforcement agents respond by indiscriminately firing on their assailants and unarmed dissidents alike.This carnage is all the more horrifying because the documentary style drives home the narrative. Watkins acts as the documentary’s off-screen narrator, but as the film’s action becomes lethal, he drops his dispassionate, journalistic demeanor and becomes completely unhinged. Imagine “The Blair Witch Project” written and directed by George Orwell—that is the terrifying power of “Punishment...
...Road to Perdition”), it dances around the subject of violence. As it follows the action of the first Gulf War, we sense chaos indirectly. We see bomb blasts reflected through windows; we watch smoke rise above the bodies of Iraqi civilians, recently burnt off-screen. This violence is filtered through the eyes of narrator Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), the everyman U.S. Marine, or “jarhead,” whose war autobiography this movie adapts. While training, Swofford is selected to join an elite scout unit, and he trades in his girlfriend for a sniper rifle...
...truth is that Phoenix is warm, polite and, yes, quite dull--perhaps even willfully so. Unlike other aspiring leading men, Phoenix, 31, is intent on being a nonentity off-screen. He does not talk about whom he might be dating, walk red carpets or volunteer dilettantish political opinions. His brother was River Phoenix, the icon of lost potential, but he refuses to discuss any feelings he has about River's 1993 death from a drug overdose. Joaquin is humble and self-deprecating, although not comically so, and when pressed to reveal anything about himself, he often retreats into incoherence...
There’s a lot of symbolism here (digital merry-go-round caballus turns into shoe containing fragile singer, propelled laterally off-screen by dreamy vapors), or else the creators mean nothing by the art at all, which is almost better...