He put down ramen like a champ, posed perfectly for every photo and the first two words he ever uttered were "apple" and "hot dog".
The artificiality of the pose coexists perfectly with lip-smacking, carnal joy.
Completed by Feyder when Ravel fell ill, this fascinating little film that seems quintessentially French in the way it poses a perfectly arbitrary formal challenge, and answers it with elegance and ease.
/ I still don't know where it came from, how it got here, / or what it wants the shapes of my ink to say," Williams writes, answering the poem's obscure demand the only way he can: by posing it perfectly.
Under Jon Tracy's direction, Aurora brings them to life through over-the-top performances by actors who can deliver not only a perfectly inflected line or a perfectly preposterous pose, but also can manage a pretty convincing body slam.
Isabelle, silent and so self-contained that an onlooker could practically see the bubble of the force field protecting her, clicks away, occasionally smiling after catching a perfectly framed pose of the model at the end of the runway.
Three fishermen look out of the past, their faces, poses, even personalities perfectly preserved by the camera.
Before then, studio staff photographers like George Hurrell shot portraits of movie stars that were perfectly posed and generously retouched.
A picture of a person smiling cheerfully on a day out is always going to win out over a perfectly posed professional shot in which the subject looks smug.
The perfectly posed photos and airbrushed visages of celebrities can look contrived and fake.
