In a commercial filmed in 2006, Mr. Taylor was the very embodiment of pep: "It's about being proud of being over 50," he says to the camera, a premature declaration from a 46-year-old who had the appearance of someone closer to 40.
And a bromide is always looming on the horizon, like Henry's declaration to the camera in Episode 2 that family members are "the ones who challenge you, support you and love you, no matter what".
(Denis cuts from Isabelle's gauzy, dreamlike, post-coital rapture to the actor's slap-like declaration, into the camera, as if from Isabelle's point of view, that he thinks they shouldn't have rushed into a sexual relationship).
Deliberately or otherwise, the camera avoided David O. Russell during the declaration for Best Adapted Screenplay, in which he lost to the writer of "Argo": a wise precaution, given what occurred recently at the BAFTAs, the British film awards that precede, and so desperately yearn to ape, their grander American counterparts.
In fact, she presents as a monumental pain in the bum, given to snapping her camera in people's faces and making grand declarations about war, art and love.
The German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder filled out a health declaration form and was monitored by a thermal imaging camera after he touched down at Changi airport as part of his tour of south-east Asia.
Christopher Isherwood made his famous declaration of artistic intent in 1939: "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking… Some day all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed".
There's a moment of crucial revelation — a potentially conventional moment of dramatic declaration — for which he discovers an extraordinarily simple yet powerfully expressive camera trope that raises the scene above character into the realm of moral enormity.
Filling out the health declaration form takes less than a minute, and walking past the infrared cameras takes no extra time at all.
Krissinger humbly brushed off declarations of heroism, saying his quick actions just happened to be captured on camera.
