Chen fogs the almost colorless landscapes with swirling white smoke and places watchful, pretty young women here and there, like sentinels or fashion models.
Matt Damon said he got a little lost last summer when he first tried to find the remote house where the director, Billy Bob Thornton, was editing "All the Pretty Horses" under the watchful gaze of Harvey Weinstein, the chairman of Miramax.
Pretty and smart, Sabina is also watchful and prone to drifting from boyfriend to boyfriend and place to place.
Rooney Mara is Therese, unaffectedly pretty, ambitious but callow: self-deprecating and watchful in ways that make working in a department store congenial.
Correction Appended "Little Children," Todd Field's superb film adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta, begins in a clean and leafy suburban playground, where toddlers cavort under the watchful, benevolent gazes of their pretty young mothers.
It is a good scene, and well-observed: the watchful PRs, the submissive interviewers, the photocopied press handouts, it is all pretty faithfully rendered, a very real part of the film-making world that I have never seen in any other film.
A watchful teacher stood by here & there, but the Children were killing time pretty much as they pleased - some of them exchanging insults, some feinting at one another with the sharp golden points of flagstaff, and other singing in innocent soprano voices.
All eyes are on Youyou, a pretty young protégée of Jackie Chan, who feigns an argument with a handsome male companion under the watchful lens of a roving camera.
(Elements of Style Reminder #8: Avoid the use of qualifiers. We should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then).
Add to that Don Coryell's watchful eye as my tennis instructor as well as my football coach and I was pretty much a "goner" when it came to any form of "misbehaving".
