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It's tempting to rely on rewards for comic effects, because that's immediately gratifying.
Like Mr. Biggs, Mr. Scanavino sometimes strains for comic effects, but here and in the later scenes he draws out the tenderness and need beneath the character's antsiness.
In contrast, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service employs this strategy for comic effects and uses simpler spatial shifts.
Variety criticised the direction of the film, writing: "(the actors) have been directed to broad, undisciplined performances Buffoonery hardly seems like Weisz's natural domain, as the actress strains for comic effects that she can't achieve".
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He pauses for comic effect.
She paused for comic effect.
Perhaps for comic effect, she then paused.
He recites this almost for comic effect.
You're exaggerating for comic effect, right?
Movement is highly stylized, again for comic effect.
It just depicts the reality of those times, exaggerated for comic effect.
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