If you're portraying a townsperson in "The Music Man" singing "Ya Got Trouble," then act as terrified as possible (unless you are playing a teenager, in which case, act elated by the horrors coming to town).
But beyond the visceral thrills on display, Bird and company know exactly when to go for a joke and when to stay serious, and they know that nothing makes an action sequences as convincing as when the actor looks and acts genuinely terrified to be doing it.
Genevieve Lemon, whose portrayal of the title character in "Sweetie" was an act of terrifying cinematic bravery, appears here as Josie, the eldest of three sisters who have returned home to attend to their dying mother, Patsy (Jeanie Drynan, who played the melancholy mom in "Muriel's Wedding").
Acts of terrifying violence and appalling humiliation are suddenly illumed by slivers of hope – expressed by the naked, skeletal prisoners in acts of unexpected generosity (the sharing of a rice ball or a joke) – and a central love story.
Toibin, however, finds the story "oddly convincing" -- and indeed makes it much more convincing in his novel, where it provides a scene of almost unbearable tension between the two young men, the one blandly curious, the other immobile with a desire he is too terrified to act on.
On the recent U. of Miami scandal: My point isnt that Miami should act like a boy terrified of his dads hide-strapping.
Sure, they might read salacious sex tips in Cosmo, but most were too terrified to act on them until a best-selling novel gave them permission to do so.
For me, the only fun to be had during a World Cup usually comes from watching Fifa get to act like a terrifying cross between Galactus – the intangible planet-sapping Marvel comic entity – and the spivvy-looking one from Dad's Army (Private Walker, now you ask).
How do we perform this terrifying act of separation from our mothers while simultaneously marching toward the unknown of individuality?
