Coen's style is deadpan and klutzy, and he uses the klutziness as his trump card.
Her big-screen debut came with The Princess Diaries (2001), in which she played Mia Thermopolis, a klutzy teenager who discovers that she is heir to a royal throne.
I get really shy and embarrassed and stupid and klutzy and I trip over.
Yentil (1983) The story: In an Ashkenazic shtetl in Poland, Yentl Mendel is the boyishly klutzy daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe ("Talmud Teacher") Mendel, who teaches Talmud (a codification of Jewish Law) to local boys - and to Yentl, but secretly because girls were not allowed to learn the law in those days.
He can take one of the klutzy, nubile (and possibly pregnant) Helena's sentences and by putting the stress sexily on a different word, uncover a whole world of down-and-dirty desire.
Typically, such scenes give a klutzy picture of musical life and come loaded with corrosive clichés.
I realize the Times does run those klutzy TV ads featuring ordinary people talking about the pleasure they get from reading the Sunday paper or whatever, but those are ads that just about any newspaper could run about itself, and they do very little to build on the distinctive authority that the Times has.
The problem cases tend to show multiple symptoms of poor management: dubious real-estate moves, ham-fisted labor relations, klutzy P.R., and, above all, a lack of artistic focus.
As for the trailer, he told me, "Now it's more fish out of water: it includes the little moment where she says 'Kay?' to the workers after her heel catches in the factory grating, and her running into a door, so she's klutzy, out of her element, more relatable".
The special effects, which were kept at a minimum in the first movie, took over: The picture was mostly whoosh and slime and klutzy physical jokes.
Lawmakers can't seem to decide whether they think teen-agers are under-informed or overly impulsive or just klutzy.
