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[Adventure Time]

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Anyone want to post some pictures (or give examples of specific scenes) of actors demonstrating amazingly expressive body language? I have a big weakness for actors who can do a great acting job with their bodies and faces. Especially their bodies - hands, shoulders, posture, movements. It's so impressive to me, to be physically talented like that.

A Scanner Darkly. Bob Arctor (played by Keanu Reeves.) I've never seen a man look so tired and defeated and confused.

Of all people, I think Julian Barrett from The Mighty Boosh has amazing body language, esp. in the first series episode 'Hitcher'

Danny Pudi as Abed in "Critical Film Studies" (although he's great in everything). He's playing a neuroatypical character playacting at being normal, and he's trying to talk to this other guy and get him to have a real conversation. . .but then the conversation gets a little too real, more deep than he was expecting and there's a tiny internal battle that's in his eyes when Jeff goes "Can I tell you something that I've never told anyone?" and Abed goes "Yes" because all of a sudden he's out of his depth and it's gorgeous. Also when he realizes there's another party for him and he switches all the way back into himself. Oh, also:

Also Donald Glover in Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking, all of his stuff with Levar Burton. His face just fucking sells it, his facial expressions are always priceless, but damn. His whole subplot rests on him being able to make a silent, terrified face and he is AWESOME.

Edited 2013-01-30 01:10 (UTC)

She mentioned you were facebook friends in the gpoy pix thread...I'm not asking you to spill anything. I just want to make sure she's ok. Her goodbye message was odd.

Aw <3 That's sweet that you have been looking out for her.

Yeah she was off the radar for a while due to RL but she's back on now and we've been emailing back and forth about once a day. She's on here sometimes, although like me anymore it's just a few comments a day.

Edit: She did send me a weird email this afternoon about something but I didn't know she was deleting her account.

As far as I know she's safe though.

Edited 2013-01-30 06:31 (UTC)

In Oscar & Lucinda, Ralph Fiennes fidgeting with the cards as Cate Blanchett is confessing how she has gambled. The "Where is the sin?" scene, in my icon. He's so tempted to play, and she's describing things he has done himself and feels very strongly about, and he's kind of sea sick. Also when Oscar is given laudanum. Oscar is constantly moving, he's twitchy, fidgety, an incredibly kinetic performance. So when he just goes limp and sick is just heartbreaking. ;___; Unfortunately there's very few clips on youtube, so do seek out the film.

In Reservoir Dogs, the development of Mr. Orange's story about the drug deal. The way it comes together from "rehearsal", to the performance, to the point where he's telling it from WITHIN the world of the story. He makes it real. It's a scene about acting and a scene of great acting.

Tim Roth is just amazing at body language- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is a great play anyways, but the way Tim and Gary play off each other with body language as well is really what makes it. Or the scene in The Legend of 1900 where he's about the leave the ship. It's also a film for really good closeups of hands. Oh and Four Rooms should get a mention for physical comedy.

I recently watched Om Shanti Om, and goodness gracious. Shah Rukh Khan communicates most of what you need to know with his eyes and gestures. And the script is good ... it's one of the few stories I've seen where characters who are supposed to be in love actually sound like it - like they're durably in love, rather than in lust or in the throes of a crush or something else. Interesting reincarnation plot, too. Bit hokey in places, but the acting is very nice.

Christopher Judge in Stargate: SG1. I know that's not a specific scene, but he does an amazing job throughout, imo. Particularly since he gets so much across with a character who doesn't talk much, so *needs* awesome body language to not seem like cardboard.

David Tennant and Matt Smith are both seriously epic at body language as the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. Tennant more facial expressions, Smith more physical stuff (especially his hands!) There are so many good scenes I don't know which ones to mention, so here's a couple random pictures, even though you need to see them in motion to fully appreciate it:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/brieface/docsad5.jpg

http://counterforce.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/alive.jpg

Marlon Brando.

Especially in On The Waterfront.

Hugo Weaving as V in V for Vendetta. Despite wearing an unmoving mask for the entire movie, he emotes ridiculously well.

See also: Doug Jones in pretty much anything. Particularly as the lead Gentleman in the Buffy episode Hush, since that was rather more subtle than the Faun or the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth.

I'm late to the party, but Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey. When she comes to the house the morning after Sybil dies, the way she moves as if just walking is a huge struggle... hit me straight in the heartstrings.

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