Why does Ms. Huppert take on extreme roles?
A sense of irony animates her work, lending it a playful distance that permits her to enact distressing emotions, and assume extreme roles, with the knowledge that they can be put on and taken off like Andy Warhol's platinum wig.
In Southcliffe, we're left in no doubt who committed the crime – another returning serviceman, played by Sean Harris (who has in his career inhabited plenty of extreme roles, ranging from Ian Curtis to Ian Brady) – but we're intrigued to find out exactly why he did it.
As someone who has pondered this question for many years, and whose own offspring are engaged in extreme gender-role-challenging activities, I would like to share my conclusion that men are extremely useful for these activities: Building fires.
However, in high montane, western landscapes where climate falls in between these two extremes, the role of aeolian clay inputs vs. in-situ weathering contributing to clay formation is of debate.
We also learn of Will that it is some sort of cosmic "intermediary between the extremes," a role described as central to the basic underpinning of the universe (Fons Vitae 1.7, p. 9, lines 28 30; see too Fons Vitae 5.36, p 322, line 20 p. 323, line 1 for another statement of the three divisions of knowledge; in this latter context, Will is identified with Word).
Under temperature extremes, the role of membrane fluidity as a means of stress perception and activation of signal transduction pathways has been well established [ 2].
And if yours isn't a balanced-budget amendment and a government as lean as Christian Bale in one of his extreme-acting roles, it might well be a big fat binge of Keynesian stimulus spending.
Looking back over Ben Kingsley's 50-year career offers an extreme variety of roles.
The details of how the science station survives in such extreme conditions, the roles of the crew staffing it and their day-to-day duties as they investigate the vast green-blue gas giant they orbit all ring true.
