A lot of early exposition time is also used to explain the chicanery of Jafar (voice by Jonathan Freeman), the Sultan's evil vizier, whose chilling, bony features suggest a composite of Nancy Reagan (the animators have mentioned this as a deliberate reference, along with a more pointed one to Conrad Veidt in "The Thief of Bagdad") and Captain Hook.
Science-fiction films are tough enough with exposition when you're trying to explain the rules of the world, but on top of that we're trying to catch people up with 28 years of back story.
Less successful are the potted and often undigested chunks of exposition in which Holden sets out to explain Prohibition and the scandals of the Harding administration.
"Copper" settles into a cycle of stilted, stagy exposition — there's all that history to explain — punctuated by beatings, shootings and knifings that have a protracted, antique brutality.
It cannot afford to indulge in leisurely exposition or use a surfeit of dialogue to explain things.
Later, the narrator claims not to recognize the name of the Boss, although this may just be in the service of exposition, an excuse for his business partner to explain who the Boss is to us, the readers.
And "Frida" is at its best when it forsakes earnest psychological exposition for magic realism, when, instead of trying to explain Kahlo's life, it conjures the moods and sensations that fed her art.
In the Versuch, Fichte sought to explain the conditions under which revealed religion is possible; his exposition turns upon the absolute requirements of the moral law.
So here's an attempt to explain what's going on in the theory; cognoscenti will recognize it as nothing more than an exposition of J.R, Hicks's analysis of the whole thing in his 1932 Theory of Wages (pdf).
