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The characters' exchanges are complex and nuanced right from the get-go.
Much of the dialogue is composed of clipped shards of language that include few proper sentences, giving the characters' exchanges an arch and artificial sound.
La Surprise de l'amour, a title Marivaux used twice (1722, 1727), becomes a regular motif, the interest of each play resting in the precise and delicate changes of attitude and circumstance rung by the dramatist and the sharp, witty discourse in which his characters' exchanges are couched.
Both the graphic punch of the posters and the dialectical angles of the characters' exchanges about art and power and gender and race and everything are functions of Lee's tabloid genius, which is attended, as usual, by his glad didacticism and forceful salesmanship.
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Don't the makers of the Walking Dead realise that we don't want characters exchanging significant looks?
Consider what it would be like if two well-known people or characters exchanged lives for a day.
Yet it doesn't make the mistake of letting its characters exchange one set of stereotypical traits (timid, oppressed, self-loathing) for another (confident, assertive, proud).
Characters exchange high-fives and Dr. Pinch shows up in an Afro and tie-dyed robe with a voodoo doll around his neck.
Her characters exchange the kind of knobby dialogue you overhear in diners on Friday mornings: mothers fretting volubly about their young-adult kids' problems, twentysomething friends chasing back bleary silence with defensive nonchalance.
Whenever "Trouble in Mind" threatens to become too self-consciously poetic, Mr. Rudolph's sly sense of humor slips in to undermine the tone of brooding solemnity; minor characters exchange whispered sarcasms, and there is an absurdly huge and bloodless gun battle that suggests a parody of Brian De Palma's 1983 "Scarface".
The offhand words the characters exchange -- Hélène warns Frédéric against getting wet; Chloe assures him that water won't stain his clothes -- turn out to be loaded with psychological subtext, and the movie's moment of moral crisis is the result of Frédéric's fondness for turtleneck sweaters.
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