Word: portrayal
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...Tsai frames the shots in What Time Is It? is often breathtaking, if occasionally frustrating for an audience accustomed to the frantic cuts and fades of music videos and news updates. He says that he spends a huge amount of time looking for the perfect space in which to portray the variously nuanced emotions he seeks, and that he feels that “space is vital to character development, especially the way in which the characters move in the space...I try to view the space as the character would...
...mayhem. Tarantino tried to guide her performance with an avalanche of Hong Kong cinema and female-samurai movies, but, says Thurman: "As much as he might have wanted me to see stuff, I wanted to make something new." So director and actress argued almost daily about just how to portray the Bride, with Thurman lobbying (often successfully) for everything from wardrobe changes to dialogue rewrites. "Quentin's actually kind of great to argue with," says Thurman. "He's a tough character, but he's not stupid, and he grants it when you score a point." Still, during the eight weeks...
...Coming Attractions" reported that Brad Pitt will portray the great warrior Achilles in Troy, the new film version of The Iliad [WHAT'S NEXT: ARTS, Sept. 8]. Please say it isn't so! I'd rather see Arnold Schwarzenegger as Achilles and Pitt as a candidate for California Governor. BOB DOLAN Fullerton, Calif...
...first part of Wednesday’s hearing, the prosecutor marshaled three witnesses in an attempt to portray Okhotin as having been uncooperative, evasive and generally suspicious after this transgression that Okhotin insisted was a mere oversight...
...reference to Iraqi efforts to acquire uranium from Niger be removed. According to the source, Foley claimed that Joseph was "zealous" about keeping it in and "really didn't want to take no for an answer." Other officials familiar with the hearing thought Foley's account did not portray Joseph as adamant. Indeed, Bush Administration sources describe the telephone call as agreeable, saying Joseph proposed changing Niger to Africa, deleting the quantity and attributing it to the British. After which, according to the senior official, Foley "signed...