Like so many funnymen, Williams had dramatic ambitions.
He hinted towards future dramatic ambitions of his own: "It's a stepping stone into what it could be like writing a play".
The UK is already legally bound by the Climate Change Act to reduce emissions 80% by 2050, but a law mandating a 100% cut would mark a dramatic increase in ambition.
His colleague at the Sunday Express, however, lamented Plowright's "embarrassingly tortured piece of acting" and her "Alabama accent redolent of Lancashire hotpot", while Welles's production exhibited "dramatic myopia" in its ambition and "gloom, storm and Stanislavsky run riot" in its execution.
Noting that Whale's reputation has been subsumed by the "Karloff cult", Sarris cites Bride of Frankenstein as the "true gem" of the Frankenstein series and concludes that Whale's career "reflects the stylistic ambitions and dramatic disappointments of an expressionist in the studio-controlled Hollywood of the thirties".
Exploring the dramatic world of illusion and ambition of two magicians locked in a deadly rivalry, Christopher Nolan's film was an opportunity for Jackman to show that he could do showmanship without enormous extendable metal claws.
Mrs. Lincoln makes a strong dramatic character because her personal ambition — thwarted by the age of crinoline in which she lived — must be channelled through her husband and her children, even as she equals them in largeness of vision and understanding.
Eliot Calvert is a would-be playwright and Boston bookseller who sacrifices his literary ambition (his major dramatic opus would end with a conflagration that consumes the stage) to a life of quiet desperation, selling pornographic pictures to support himself and his family in a manner befitting Beacon Hill.
Together, they offer an unlikely, hip-hop-inspired retelling of the United States' revolutionary history, punctuated by dramatic, character-driven stories of ambition and revenge, all influenced by Miranda's serendipitous decision to read a Hamilton biography while on vacation.
