During the first week of testimony police witnesses, in customary scene-setting in American murder trials, described finding Martin's body shot through the heart.
Here in California, an escorted drive through the fire area showed now-customary scenes of abandoned towns, trailers and houses, and ash-filled moonscape hillsides that had once been filled with verdant, if dry, brush and swaying trees.
Beyond the fright and the funny, Mr. King tried in "Kingdom Hospital" to push beyond his customary action-intense scenes toward more character-based drama, especially in scenes that involve his alter ego, Peter Richman.
With his customary knack for scenes and characters chiseled with a stonecutter's economy, Salter constructs Bowman's world out of dozens of glistening miniatures and tossed-off portraits, each bristling with life.
Miller lets us know, with titles, who is performing and where; Wiseman, proceeding in his customary manner, presents long scenes without identifying anyone.
sees Crosley, a suburban girl-turned-New Yorker, navigating through a handful of countries and a clutch of local scenes with her customary witty and weird style.
Before James does get down to his work, though, there is a shift, about a minute into the scene, from the film's customary (and classic) detached narrative position where the camera hovers next to characters and often shows you what they see to a shot from inside James's helmet looking out, as if you were seeing the world through his eyes.
A series of Singapore's $100 bills bear the image of a Singapore Airlines aircraft instead of the customary dead statesman, poet, grand building or bucolic scene.
"We conveyed to the filmmaker that the censor board has suggested a customary scroll at the bottom for the smoking scenes, but he did not want any changes in the reel," said Deepak Sharma, the chief operating officer at PVR Cinemas.
There are scenes that display De Palma's customary visual brilliance: two bodies fall down a stairwell in agonizing slow motion; the sloping old black cars slide along lurid streets like giant shiny beetles.
