We learn about primes, triangular numbers, the invention of zero, and so on, in surprisingly warm-hearted scenes of exposition.
Tossed into virtually every scene are handfuls of exposition about the mechanics of the movement, the more ham-fisted bits being proffered by the two F.B.I. agents listening in on meetings between Lawrence and his allies.
The plot grinds on through long, mumbled scenes of soapy exposition, but the meaty stuff – what made the family do that?
Neither does it cheapen the value of sex in storytelling by using it as a constant backing track, as Game of Thrones has coyly done to entertain the male gaze during scenes of protracted exposition.
However, Max has a distaste for long stories and occasionally loses focus during lengthy scenes of plot exposition; by his own admission, Max possesses a particularly short attention span.
One or both of them certainly brought a tin ear and a heavy hand to the job of reconstructing conversations: when our hero has a real-life lunch with Jackie Onassis, then a book editor at Doubleday, the crude smuggling-in of exposition makes the scene no more convincing than the earlier fantasy.
And the new scene is about three solid minutes of exposition, and there's nothing to show -- because two of the actors are saying lines that don't make any sense anymore, and one of them can't be shown.
It managed to feel both too long and too short, cramming in a season's worth of exposition into a couple of scenes, and, at the same time, dragging out already dull conversations to interminable lengths.
A scene set in Vegas is pretty much 10 minutes of exposition about complicated financial instruments.
Video game scriptwriters started to force dollops of exposition on players through non-interactive cut scenes and, if the player strayed too far from the set narrative path, some unseen director would often return them to the straight and narrow.
