FAR from the giant rallies and big-screen showmanship of the final days of a presidential campaign, the sleepy town of Donzy in Burgundy feels untouched by politics.
The pair, all showmanship on screen at the piano, worked closely with Richard Sherman on set to capture the traits and personalities of the actual songwriters.
On a technical and storytelling level, it's one of the greatest duels I've ever seen committed to screen: Oberyn, using his showmanship to gain reactions, fights symmetrically and elegantly; Gregor, only interested in winning, breaks up the beauty as much as possible.
People are drawn to their on-screen patter, chatty with no showmanship present.
There's no showmanship in reading a screen.
Thus, like the wide screen, its use belongs to the realm of showmanship.
The development or at least the use of the wide screen in public theatres really belongs, like colour, to the realm of showmanship.
"A face unclouded by thought," was playwright Lillian Hellman's assessment of Shearer's screen presence, while the writer Anita Loos remarked, "It is to Irving's credit that, by expert showmanship and a judicious choice of camera angles, he made a beauty and a star out of Mrs. Thalberg".
And the presence of esteemed actors like The Jewel in the Crown's Charles Dance and The Avengers' Diana Rigg shows how Game of Thrones' producers are as invested in rooting their series in show business history – and old-school showmanship – as they are in adapting Martin's elaborately conceived, fanciful history to the small screen.
Showmanship was barely involved.
