In the new film, though, his tuning is exact, his actors miss not a trick, and, without our really noticing, his story dances along at a rattling rate.
In common with a few others, notably Laurette Taylor as Amanda Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie" and Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire," Mr. Robards and Jamie Tyrone were irrevocably linked, an exact meeting of actor and character.
Software then analyses the markers' positions in each frame to reconstruct the exact posture of the actor.
Depp's agent had only just got around to telling the actor the exact figure he would earn for starring in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
Because the clothes were designed to exact measurements for each actor, 35 mannequins had to be individually hand-carved to the specifications of the costumes.
We could see every move of the camera blocking designed by Alejandro and Chivo (the brilliant Emmanuel Lubezki), we could see the actors' exact positions, etc.
As for Mr. Jackman, if a clone of the young Clint Eastwood were hybridized with the younger Mel Gibson, you would have an exact copy of this Australian actor, who exudes a trace more passion and vulnerability than either predecessor.
Counterintuitively representing an island of understatement in an altogether barmy film, Gyllenhaal plays a timid academic who discovers that he has an exact double, a failed movie actor, and makes the mistake of contacting him.
As with grants in aid between the federal and state governments, public/private contracts could be a means of extending government priorities and policies to private actors, and of exacting concessions and gains that might otherwise be beyond its regulatory reach.
Reading this moving piece about Williams by the comedian Jamie Kilstein, I was struck by that exact quality in the late actor.
Now here he is again, in an East Village theater just blocks from where he lived, in what might be called "Yet Another Evening With Quentin Crisp," in which he is reincarnated with exact and loving detail by the actor Bette Bourne.
