Captivated by the daring and drama, he incorporated his version of the feat into the dance.
In this case, the more ordinary the events, the more daring the drama.
Yet Macdonald's film, with the factual solidity of documentary and the imaginative daring of drama, somehow puts you in there with him.
And though there is no doubt about what is going on in those scenes, the series is more circumspect than HBO's daring prison drama, "Oz," which last season seemed to revel in total male nudity.
For years the kind of seasonal wrap-up I'm writing now would find me singling out and embellishing memorable moments in acting while lamenting the depersonalization of the musical and the death of daring in drama.
This year's Academy award for best foreign language film went to Hungary's daring Holocaust drama Son of Saul, the universally lauded yet undeniably difficult to watch debut from director László Nemes.
When he starred as a magazine writer posing as a Jew in the daring social drama "Gentleman's Agreement," his agent cautioned that moviegoers might resent a film about anti-Semitism.
Mabry's movie had premiered in Park City the day after Lee Daniels' daring, distinguished drama "Precious". Sales reps told Mabry that the market couldn't support two black films, no matter that they were very different movies.
Lines from act one echo in act two, themes and ideas are deepened or turned on their head, characters are true to themselves but constantly surprising and it's all very, very funny in the intellectually stimulating way only the most daring of dramas can be.
"There will never be daring politically-charged drama like BFTB again, never," said one commenter.
