Silent moments in Serenity (( *WARNING SPOILERS ARE INSIDE* ))
POSTED BY: Edge99
UPDATED: Sunday, October 9, 2005 05:37
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Is she really? that sucks....the other thing is you can also VERY easily see is Wash's dinos when Mal and River are flying in that last scene.
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Originally posted by DonCoat:
1) In the bar on Beaumonde, Mal and Jayne sit down with the twins. Four glasses are filled, and everyone grabs one. Mal and the brothers raise and click their glasses in a toast.
Meanwhile, Jayne just slugs down his shot.
See, I wonder how much of that stuff is scripted sometimes. Adam Baldwin managed to bring so much of his own style to playing Jayne, that stuff like that flowed off naturally, scripted or not. Well, I suppose I'll have to wait 'til I get the Visual Companion. KF
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ZOE: Preacher, don’t the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?
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Drat, now I won't get any homework done tonight, but I wanna play too!
I read a comment Joss made regarding David Boreanaz' acting abilities where he said David could "turn on a dime". The ability to show the thought process and shifts in emotion is one of my favorite things about great acting. That, and actors like Claire Danes who can speak lines of Shakespeare and make it flow like a regular old conversation you might hear on a bus.
The bit where Inara is standing on the porch and the Operative walks up the steps and her expression shifts from welcoming to understanding to dread...Inara is only shot in profile in that scene. Emotional shifts like that are difficult enough for an actor to convey well, but they are nearly impossible for the viewer to read in profile because there's not as much information in a profile shot as there is in a 3/4 or full face shot. That she was able to pull that one off so clearly yet with such subtlety was remarkable, cudos!
The scene where Jayne is riding Mal about why he brought River back on the ship, you see Zoe get angry at what Jayne is saying, and then at the end when Jayne asks how many people in his platoon were alive after the battle of Serenity Valley, Zoe's face shifts from intent alertness, to that memory, to battle mode. It's like you see her shift back into the moment at the table, then you see her lift out of herelf into combat hyperalert and complete stillness before she tells Jayne 'you wanna leave this room'. Very cool.
There's a scene right after Mal tells the crew he'll shoot anyone who doesn't get busy tying dead bodies to the ship or flinging red paint around, where he ducks into a corridor on Serenity and he strokes the wall a little and kind of writhes away from the camera a little and this expression of vast disappointment ripples across his face (again, not a full face shot), his shoulders draw in and his head drops a little, as if he had to be away from everyone else because he had just crossed a line he never thought he would cross, into the land of no return. The corridor is quite dark and lit with kind of a deep somber blue, which really adds to the feeling of isolation and sorrow.
The guy sitting next to me in the theater on Sunday was seeing the movie for the second time, and he told me to watch for a shot of River that looked like a Frank Frazetta paintinng. He meant the shot of her as the doors open and she's standing backlit in a pile of Reaver bodies. He was right it, was very Frazetta, and the blood dripping just right off her -whatever that sword cleaver thing was she must have borrowed from Wesley - they got that just right; slo mo and thick.
I also loved Jayne sliding the big blue bottle with the Blue Sun label across the table to Simon.
TO: blue to green
TO-HCA: blue as distinguished from green
-Lakota words
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When Mal and Jayne throw grenades out at the reavers everyone ducks, except Zoe. She's still standing calmly in the middle of the room loading her weapons and doesn't even flinch when the grenades go off.
I thought it was perfect. She's in "soldier mode" and probably suffering from shock. She's definately in an altered state of mind at the time. I didn't notice the first time (I was in shock myself) but the second time I watched Zoe more.
I LOVED Jayne holding his gun like a teddy bear when they traveled through reaver space.
I'm sure I can come up with more after I see it again ;).
(Although not silent, when Jayne was making sure everyone was strapped in like he was operating a ride at Disney World I laughed out loud. "check, check, check, check".)
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Quote:
Originally posted by DonCoat:
Another such moment of expressive silence follows the line:
"Am I talking to Miranda now?"
Hah!
Good catch, one of my favorite scenes from viewing movie, yet it had slipped my mind.
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i dont think there's a single person how wasn't in awe when those doors opened and River was there
actually, i kind of expected it.
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i'll add my two cents... or one scene. the scene where the assasin is pinned to the railing and forced to watch the vid of the reavers... uh, birth? anyway, if you watch his face you can see his belief and resolve begin to crack and then all of a sudden it's back and unfazed. like what's left of his humanity is almost brought out by what he sees and it shakes his faith, but then the old training kicks in and squashes it and he starts thinking about whether to let the crew go or not. cold and methodical cause he's, "a monster."
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i think that was my quote, cant quite remember, which is really bad.....i too expected it, first theres a trailer where that happens.....and of courses she goign to kick /\55, thats the whole movie....but you can't sy that that is not the most awesome pic when the doors open and she's there like that wow!
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Quote:Well, of course -- if you saw any of the publicity posters that featured that very shot.
Originally posted by engineangel:Quote:
i dont think there's a single person how wasn't in awe when those doors opened and River was there
actually, i kind of expected it.
The word "tableau" popped into my head the first time I saw that shot.
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Let's see here...I was waiting for this thread to pop up...
After the Barnswallow scene, Jayne is sitting on the steps, bleeding...Watch Kaylee run over to Simon, but not before she shoves Jayne out of the way to get to him!
Mal tries to fix his hair when he's talking to Inara on the Cortex...Cracked me up...(kinda of a "Is there blubber" moment)
When The Operative says "I mean you no harm", just before Mal shrugs off his disguise in the training house...You can clearly see that Mal is on his guard even though he says "Speak your peace"
The look on Jayne's face right after he says "I been to the edge...just looked like more space"...looks like Jayne does stop to give it a second's thought...
The first fight between The Operative and Mal...you can see Mal getting wound down...he starts out strong and, even though its quick, you can see him lose his steam.
Anytime the crew outsmarts The Operative...With the beacon, and then the Nav Sats...that look of well...Anger for a man who says he cant be angered...it almost looks long suffering...Also, as a bonus...the ensign who's standing behind The Operative when he says "Define...disappeared"
Kaylee sitting there fiddling with a part from the Reaver skiff while Jayne is busy throwing the dead Reaver off Serenity...Excellent!
And, I love Book's intro into the movie...Ron looked great!
I'll be back with some more...I'm going to see it again tonight, so, I'll be on the lookout...I know there's so much more...
Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."
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