Word: offscreen
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...gifted, no doubt, but in big-city music competitions, a bribe decides the winner. Nevertheless, Xiaochun gets a good teacher--Jiang (Wang Zhiwen), a sympathetic bohemian with a Dickens-novel quota of pet cats--and befriends an effervescent girl-on-the-make named Lili (Chen Hong, who offscreen is Chen's wife...
Schutz, for one, pantomimed small-talk with Stiles and Topher Grace (That 70’s Show), her onscreen love interest, before a tap from Kirsten Dunst sent him strolling offscreen. While Schutz’s acting was restricted to nodding and Stiles’s character whispered half-sentences, Grace entertained the two with fragmented gems such as, “…so that’s how you make bundt cake...
Onscreen he's a Jedi knight with a very dark future. She's a galactic Senator with the worst taste in men in the universe. Offscreen Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman seem far less exotic. Unlike some of their Hollywood counterparts, neither has ever made news by trashing a hotel suite or getting arrested outside the Viper Room. Instead, they have become known for smart career strategies and finely tuned performances in films whose budgets wouldn't pay for the wigs in a Star Wars movie...
...Cameron and ventures on a polar opposite from his frequent employers. Where Cameron frequently descends into overblown melodrama and explicit sentimentality, Paxton exhibits an oddly compelling restraint. He pulls fewer emotional punches than might be expected in this, a tale of questionable morality, and leaves almost all the gore offscreen. Using sounds suggestive of the violence that the father inflicts on his demons, the camera pans to the reaction shots of his children, and in those moments, the images truly chill because it underscores the torment inflicted on young Fenton...
...version of it yet to be found. As fits the frame of holy war, in which everyone is a soldier and belief is a battlefield, it appears that Pearl's last words were a forced affirmation of faith and identity. "I am a Jew," he said to the captors offscreen. "My father is a Jew." He recited some criticisms of U.S. policies, as though from a script that echoed his kidnappers' demands. Then the tape cuts out and starts again as a knife stabs his throat. Then he is on the floor, wounded. And then, another cut, another image...