Then again, it's only rehearsal, and James Spader has his Reddington intensity dialed down to zero, in favor of his normal, real-life mode of free-associating bonhomie.
Equally, however, there are a couple of moments when Savages' push forward from their debut doesn't quite come off: tracks on which their edge just appears to have been dulled without anything being added to compensate; on which, with the distorting intensity dialled down, they sound somehow more like the sum of their influences than before".
The production would be helped if the roughhousing and emotional intensity were dialed down a bit.
Captain 3-D, a 42-year-old Northern Ireland native, is also known as the resident "hurl-o-meter" at DreamWorks, the guy who goes through every frame to adjust the amount of depth, dial the intensity up or down, and fix the right-eye/left-eye camera settings so that moviegoers can enjoy dragons skydiving past them without having to turn their popcorn bags into motion-sickness bags.
Once you begin, you can dial the intensity of the experience up or down, giving you control over just how mellow or excited you'll be at the end of a session.
When you have created the mood you want, you can turn up the intensity by picturing a dial, and slowly moving the indicator up as you allow your confidence and motivation to increase along with it.
Oscar Isaac is someone filmmakers turn to for a cautious intensity, and here he dials it up, leaving us nicely uncertain whether Nathan is a dauntless pioneer or a dangerous loon.
"Tell him to dial up his intensity," he says.
"You can dial up the intensity level by following 200 more people who think like you on Twitter or by turning on MSNBC or Fox News".
