Olmos comes close to conjuring world-weary, late Spencer Tracy in his portrayal of Freddy (I'm thinking especially of Tracy in John Sturges's Bad Day at Black Rock where his "disabled" character should never be underestimated) with down-to-earth, authentic-to-the-core, unembellished flair.
If the designers were thinking of realistic portrayals of the body, maybe that was because their inspiration was a William-Adolphe Bouguereau painting, "A Soul Brought to Heaven".
Rather than trying to break expressions into their constituent parts, as Ekman had, the center was interested in natural, easily understood portrayals; under the rubric of "thinking," it distinguished among brooding, choosing, fantasizing, judging, thoughtfulness.
Benton was thinking about another love story – another portrayal of a woman loved by two very different men.
Some detractors criticized the show for its portrayal of torture, saying it misled viewers into thinking that the tactics were effective.
Younger people watching the actor Jason Robards's portrayal of Bradlee in "All the President's Men" can be forgiven for thinking it is a broad caricature, an exaggeration of his cement-mixer voice, his cocky ebullience, his ferocious instinct for a political story, and his astonishing support for his reporters.
This portrayal, however, distorts both Rorty's view of analytical philosophy and the trajectory of his thinking.
Nevertheless, the realistic portrayal of the battlefield in The Red Badge of Courage has often misled readers into thinking that Crane (despite being born six years after the end of the Civil War) was himself a veteran.
"The portrayal of Lincoln and Thaddeus Stevens is brilliant, and to the extent that people maybe are thinking about how members voted, that's a healthy thing for our culture to be focused on — our history — as opposed to the other content in movies," he said.
I had gone into my interview with him planning to ask if he wanted to head the children's chapter of an organization I was thinking of starting: the Committee Against Unjust (Not to Mention Paint-by-the-Numbers) Portrayals of Suburbia.
