Favorite non-verbal character moments
POSTED BY: shambleau
UPDATED: Saturday, October 9, 2004 16:06
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I agree, Book's look from the corner regarding "Special Hell". I must also add, River on top of ship listening to the conversation in "Objects In Space"
I wish I could think of more. I'll post more if I come across it
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Jayne drugged on the ground. I wish I could include him snatching the air (lights) but he was talking :(
Simon: Hugging River when she was up to be burned.
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Every time i watch that scene, i see Zoe looking, making sure Jayne is going to his bunk, watching Mal's back, because that's what she does.
Mal doesn't look to see if he's doing what he's told him to do, because of course he is, the captain told him too...
vince
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When River and Simon are clinging to the spaceship: River is in awe and happiness and Simon's about to piss his pants! hehe
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There's no show I'd rather see, than the one with Serenity.
You can't take the sky from me...
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Oh and also in Objects in Space where Simon is fighting Jubal, and Jayne wakes up, pulls back the sheet over all his guns...and then puts the sheet on himself and goes back to sleep!
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There's no show I'd rather see, than the one with Serenity.
You can't take the sky from me...
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Here's a few that have never been mentioned, i think.
Book performing some kind of ritual over the dead robbers at the beginning of OMR. Everybody else is ignoring them, and celebrating with a dance. Not only does it show that he's a genuinely religious man, it ties in with OIS. Book has probably done something awful, as River's vision shows, and he's sought redemption for it. "There but for the grace of God..." is implied in his actions.
In Serenity, after Mal shoots Dobson, he calls for Jayne, who runs up with a wolfish grin on his face. Jayne's gotten what he wanted - a dead Fed. The other instructive reaction to what happens is Zoe's. She just stares impassively for a second and then heads over to the intercom to tell Wash they're all aboard. She'd been against killing Dobson. She'd thought it was stupid and would bring the Feds down on them. Once, Mal did it, she accepts it matter-of-factly and moves on.
What's also illuminating about Zoe is her non-committal reaction during the argument about whether or not Mal had the right to space River and Simon. Wash appealed to her and said "We're going to talk about this, right?" She just stared at him. In one of the unaired scenes on the DVD, Simon asked her what she would do if Mal asked her to kill him. She said, calmly, she would do it. I think it was artistically far more interesting to make that point with just a glance, as they ended up doing.
When Inara and Simon are talking on the ramp above the crew playing basketball in Bushwacked, they'd been talking about how Simon felt guilty that his actions had led to their being fugitives. Check out Simon's reaction to Inara saying "We're all running from something, I suppose." He thinks there's something odd about that statement, and I think it's supposed to be a clue to Inara's secret.
Simon's pleasure in watching River dancing in Safe is touching and revealing at the same time. There's some wonder in his look, because she seems so normal and happy.
Inara's look of "Well? I'm waiting!" when she's asking Mal what the last cargo they carried ( the bobble-head dolls) is just cute as hell.
shambleau
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In Serenity, the Punch-drunk-love look that Mal gets on his face when he places his hand on Inara's shoulder and tells her she needs to go to save herself from the Reavers.
The look on Simon's face when River says that she is going to go with Jubal Early in Objects in Space
The shot of River listening in on everyone talking about her in Objects in Space
and about a bajillion others that i can't think of right now
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MAL: This is my scrap of nowhere. You go on and find your own.
SAFFRON: You can't just leave me here, on this
lifeless piece of crap moon...
MAL: Sure I can.
SAFFRON: I'll die.
MAL: Well, as a courtesy, you might start
getting busy on that, cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
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The end of the message when they bring out the coffin to present to the parents and they all stand around with that awesome music in the background. Very moving.
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"We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis.
You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die. Huh? Look at that chiseled jaw."
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There are tons I love, and they've almost all been mentioned on this thread, but to add a favorite I don't think I've seen. . .
In Heart of Gold, when Mal has caught up with Burges, and Burges says "She's just a whore." Mal has his gun aimed at Burges, like he's going to shoot him, and then there's this terribly cool little one handed toss, so that he can grab the gun and club Burges with it instead. I'm describing it very badly, but it's very cool.
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WESLEY : Feng shui.
GUNN: Right. What's that mean again?
WESLEY: That people will believe anything.
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The moment in Serenity when Jayne puts a single round in his gun and you know that one's for him
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Two moments, both from Jayne and both in Serenity.
the first is when Mal and Jayne are interrogating the fed about how much information he sent out in the transmission before Wash cut it off. Mal says to Jayne "Just scare him." and Jayne responds "Pain is scary." and Mal shakes his head and walks out. there is this flicker across Jayne's face as he has to quickly recalculate his entire interrogation strategy from the ground up.
the second moment is when Kaylee is sitting on the floor in the engine room and is directing Jayne and Book on how to get the right things done. Jayne opens a panel to reveal a morass of wires and tubes and Kaylee says "Ok, it's very simple." the disgusted/confused/panicked look Jayne gives is priceless.
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