Hitchcock's use of the confrontational close-up diminished with the coming of sound; perhaps he felt that, with the added element of spoken dialogue, the technique became too obvious.
So he gives me the ballast to carry the story because he's thought about everything else; he's considered every element of the film - the dialogue, the look, the feel, the rhythm, everything is there for me.
The story elements and much of the dialogue still remained in the finished film, though Schumacher felt it could be "lighte[ne]d down".
But I have no doubt that elements of this dialogue – along with so many other exchanges not overheard – provide essential insights into character and how it was that Blair joined this country to Bush's Iraq war.
A constant element in the dialogue is irony; etymologically, the term derives from a form of interrogation in which the answer is known beforehand by the questioner.
For Pinza the most challenging element of the role was the spoken dialogue.
One element of spoken dialogue which we aim to preserve is indirectness.
Characters, properties and parameters are defined inside the definitions element for reference in the rest of the dialogue scenario.
The 1983 film, directed by David Jones, was restorative, capturing the musical elements in the dialogue as well as the shifting chords of the characters (played by Jeremy Irons, Patricia Hodge and Ben Kingsley).
At the risk of overkill, mention has to be made of the dialogue, the most noticeable element of the troweled-on swing-era atmosphere.
