Because while we've been able to control performer safety on set, we can't always control what happens off-set, with an untested population.
Once technicians got the sound more under control, though, performers began to stand out on the basis of their voices.
Binoche's praise of Haneke comes close to the nub of the complaint that has been voiced against him, by some critics and many outraged viewers: that, even as he shows human beings forcing themselves on one another, he is visiting the same cruelty, and the same slow squeezes of control, on performers and spectators alike.
He mentions the record executive's early career as a failed pimp, and thereafter, keeps applying apposite quotes from Iceberg Slim's memoir, "Pimp: The Story of My Life" to describe Mr. Gordy's style of controlling his performers' destinies.
By controlling the performers, Grey can package stars with shows he produces; or he can simply leverage his relationships to pitch other projects.
MWM advantages include minimal training, no food deprivation, ease of testing, reliable learning, insensitivity to differences in body weight and appetite, absence of non-performers, control methods for performance effects, repeated testing capability and other factors that make this test well-suited for regulatory studies.
This meant ceding control to his performers as part of a more collective and open-ended endeavor.
Since "L'Amour Fou" (1969), his seismic portrait of an imploding relationship, he has, to varying degrees, ceded control to his performers, who assume a genuinely collaborative role.
One of the great things about the music of John Dowland is the degree to which it gives performers control of matters that eventually became a composer's prerogative.
The narrative may elude any satisfyingly certainty, and it somewhat overstays its welcome, but the execution marries real panache with utter control; all four performers, lithe and loose-limbed, are superb.
