Favorite non-verbal character moments
POSTED BY: shambleau
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 19:40
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I only saw this moment mentioned briefly once, and I guess it's sorta verbal but to me it defines the subtle writing style of Joss.
In the pilot when Mal busts open the chest that River is in and the look on his face of pure surprise and shock is simply priceless. Then the ingenious line of "Huh" to truly make it one of the best scenes I have ever seen.
"I threw up on your bed" -River
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For some reason the War Stories scene with the blindfolded Wash looking around for Mal has been on my mind since I read it here.....one of the many absolutely heartbreaking moments in that episode.
How could anyone hurt those two guys? :sniff:
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I'll try to do one from each episode:
1. Serenity: Mal looking at Jayne in Badger's office when the guns come out, and then turning back to Badger and trying that goofy smile to put things back in a conversational mood (I know in the rough pilot there's a line there, but it's better in the finished version).
2. The Train Job: Mal's face, and wipe of the nose, after kicking Niska's man into the engine.
3. Bushwhacked: The moment between Mal and Simon as Mal is searching the ship, with the "uh oh, what are you doing here" and looking like he's going to improvise a plan to keep them from being seen.
4. Shindig: Jayne and Mal enjoying the diamond the size of a testicle and Badger having his hands on a couple... of invites.
5. Safe: Mal and Zoe when they see how the Alliance turns around on helping Book.
6. Our Mrs. Reynolds: Almost everything: Mal showing Jayne his hat, anything Christina Hendricks does, but I love Jayne and Mal's faces coming off of "How drunk was I last night?"; "I don't know, I passed out"
7. Jaynestown: Mal's half-fake, half-not paternal scowl when he comes to get Kaylee, Jayne, and Simon.
8. Out of Gas: tied between the Mal and Inara shared joke -- one of the times he managed to make a light "whore" joke, but also let her know his real regard -- and Jayne's look when leaving Mal on the ship, not having anything to say, but clearly impressed by him.
9. Ariel: mostly Mal's face after they get back to Serenity and he's hugging Kaylee and being very pleasant -- watch it again and you can at least interpret a lot of patient insincerity as he's waiting to be alone with Jayne.
10. War Stories: Mal's injured but astounded "are you freakin' kidding me?" face when both Niska and the torturer leave him alone, also when he tries to get Zoe to take Wash out of there before Niska changes his mind.
11. Trash: Again, almost anything Christina Hendricks does. Also, though, Mal trying to keep up with her explanation about him bringing her back.
12. The Message: Mal at the funeral, looking as pained as we ever see him.
13. Heart of Gold: actually I like this episode a lot, and it has my favorite non-verbal in the whole series with Mal and Inara together over Nandi. It's a whole conversation and more honest about what both of them feel than any other actual conversation they have. To my eyes it goes something like:
Mal (coming in): Nandi, no!
Inara: she's gone
Mal: I'm sorry (both for her loss and for the previous night)
Inara (getting angry)no... him. kill him for me.
Forgive my lame sketch dialogue, because non-verbal communication are inarticulable ideas, but that sense of what goes on there always gives me goosebumps.
15. Objects in Space: Simon as he gets the idea that it might be "his moment" right before Early tells him that it's not, also Kaylee/Jewel giving everything and then some in her scene with Early.
16. Serenity:
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Mal's look as River collapses in the Maidenhood. The man looked ready to kill her for his own safety if he had to, but when she drops, his face changes quickly from tension to confusion to concern. Also, the look Mal and Inara share when he leaves them.
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One form the movie.
When Mal is watching the flexy of Inara in the background River is sniffing Inara's bed with a 'ewww' look on her face.
I was the only one in the thearter that laughed. Anyone else find that funny as hell?
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