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Acting quality is particularly crucial in films whose primary purpose is to narrate the life of their protagonist??particularly if he or she is a publicly familiar figure. The stakes are much higher for actors attempting to portray people with whose mannerisms, voice and appearance the audience is familiar with—but higher stakes mean higher potential rewards for viewers...
...Silence of the Lambs is two-fold: The audience doesn’t know if Hannibal Lecter will cooperate or when the next potential victim may die. Don’t Say a Word doesn’t have the patience for such complexity. In this film, the protagonist??s deadline is five o’clock...
Simply put, Conversation For a Dollar breaks far less new ground when exploring questions of sociology and communication than it does when it dares to think outside generally contemplated field areas and arrives at compelling conclusions. The protagonist??s lecture about the flashing-for-beads “microeconomy” that arises in New Orleans during Mardi Gras is one of the more skewed examples, and his disquisition on the shape of the universe provides a surprising amount of interesting information to those of us who have never taken an astronomy course. And he gives...