Shooting with a tiny crew on the streets of Manila, with actors working in Tagalog (a language the director doesn't speak), Ellis pulls together a lean, character-based actioner set around the perilous profession of the security guard.
A lean, lanky character actor, Mr. Hindman started his versatile career on stage and appeared in films, television series and specials for more than 30 years.
"Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.
There is, beneath the surface, a vitality that gives it a lean, swinging character".
By 1937 those intentions came to the stage as Steinbeck adapted the novella into a play for the Broadway production, directed by George Kaufman, and I would argue that it is stronger than the novella a more compressed and lean narrative of character and inevitable tragedy.
The language that our ancestors used to assess people's weight generally had a qualitative and whole-body character: "thin," "gaunt," "lean," "lanky," "stout," "fleshy," "corpulent," "beefy," "plump," "portly," and, finally, "fat".
(Although all of the characters lean left, they approach this election with hesitancy).
At the Parentopia blog, Devra Renner reports on watching "The Blind Side" with her sons, age nine and fourteen: At one point Michael Oher is being dropped off at college and Sandra Bullock's character leans in and warns: "Michael Oher listen to me, all right?
If your character can lean, try sniping leaning is effective and is almost impossible for the enemy to see you.
(For the record, can I just say I fucking hate the concept of "characters"? Why does American entertainment lean so hard on characters? Pretty sure there are enough people in the world already without having to spend time getting to know some bored typist's imaginary friends).
