As suggested in "For Aging Drivers," I, at age 81, have reduced my driving from more than 10,000 miles a year to less than 3,500, avoided night driving except on very short trips to familiar locations and dispensed with any extraneous actions while driving.
In exploratory domains, agentsʼ actions map onto logs of behavior that include switching between activities, extraneous actions, and mistakes.
And there certainly isn't any extraneous action in Night Moves.
Instead, Mr. Warlikowski introduces a surfeit of extraneous action that has little if any bearing on the drama.
Midway through the film, del Toro stages a delightful but extraneous action sequence in a creature-clogged "troll market" hidden beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.
The dances, meanwhile, with their mix of curtseys, bows and pastoral, effortlessly elide baroque with contemporary dance, but seem extraneous to the action rather than integral to it.
I cut out the parts of the landscape that I thought were extraneous to the action of light moving across and down the rock, and added a deep golden color to the negative space.
Bond scholars Smith and Lavington consider Leiter to offer negligible help to Bond, largely because there is no role for him in the novel, a point with which continuation Bond author Raymond Benson agrees, noting that he is "extraneous to the dramatic action".
(Of course, the whole point of Calvinism is that no human action can be extraneous to God's plans).
The 10 commandments that constitute Dogme's Vow of Chastity include the forswearing of extraneous sound and lighting, "superficial action" and "geographical and temporal alienation"; a commitment to hand-held camerawork; and censure of all genres and any explicit "taste".
The movie's superficial realism — remaining on the outside of characters, eschewing interior monologues, fantasies, dreams, visions, the director's own voice-over commentary, flashbacks, backstory, dialogue extraneous to the pursuit of the action, parentheses and apostrophes that would provide context and analysis — is in no way natural or automatic, but is a careful and calculated contrivance.
