Regardless of differences between the characters and their makers, a sex scene is the closest thing to an instant X-ray of the filmmaker's innermost fibre.
Smith's well-honed, even obsessive prose gives a feeling of eavesdropping on her characters' innermost thoughts.
Best of all, it allowed the viewer to be a party to the characters' innermost thoughts, where a lot of the humour lies.
Mr. Stone tends to be at his best — in his novels "A Hall of Mirrors," "Dog Soldiers" and "Damascus Gate" — when he's using his reportorial skills to conjure a strange or alien land, and relying on his narrative gifts to create harrowing action sequences that reveal his characters' innermost needs and fears.
As a genre, it pays attention to the innermost experiences of characters who find themselves in some kind of life crisis.
(Sony, $14.94) Ben-Hur William Wyler, 1959 Wyler's great strength as a filmmaker is the minute detailing he brought to performances, the almost imperceptible gestures that make a character's innermost thoughts readable, like Myrna Loy's hesitation over placing flowers on her husband's breakfast tray his first morning home in "The Best Years of Our Lives".
There's a telling pause when the long opening sentence itself "stands at bay" in line eight, and a further long sentence begins with a uniquely memorable personification, "Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated day … " That word choice, "fascinated", illustrates the novelist's gift for highlighting, by a word or phrase, a character's innermost response.
The narrator sets himself up as our guide, offering little lectures on the scenery and exploring the innermost thoughts of the characters, as if both were of equal interest and transparency.
In the device's most mannered turn, two characters convey their innermost feelings to each other through third-person badinage.
She is instead admired for her ability to peel off layers of emotion, baring the innermost soul of her complex characters.
