Not least because he's prepared to subsume himself to the needs of the character and the rest of the film.
Apted, who has a respect for actors and a feeling for the real, could not — cannot now — adequately subsume himself into the kind of dumb but deadpan, yet on its own terms serious, stylishness that a Bond film demands.
He didn't subsume himself in a sensuous transformation of reality, as van Gogh did, and, unlike Picasso, he was never straightforward about the nature of his erotic drives.
(And every moment does: for a couple of words of light backup vocals, a revolving riff holding a tune together, and a short lead in harmony with Mr. Campbell. It was fascinating to see how Mr. Thurston slides into this puzzle, subsuming himself into the whole, no matter what he plays).
Sartre, as Lévy describes him, was, in his own extremely idiosyncratic fashion, a totalitarian — someone who got swept up in the craziness of the 20th century because he wanted to subsume himself into a mass movement, and who therefore ended up taking a sort of masochistic pleasure in distorting his own best thoughts and intuitions.
But their individual characters are subsumed by the huge personality of Mr Bell himself, who constantly interrupts his text to express his own opinions.
Nearby, a small cartoon man subsumed by flames plunges through white space, like he hurled himself from a catastrophe doomed to total destruction. .
The letter's contents are subsumed into Ruth Esther's greater mystery, and Wheeling returns to North Carolina thinking himself neither better nor worse off for their acquaintanceship.
"Reality hurts, but maybe it's better that way!" Like Merman, Lane is a performer, but, although he usually works with a script and a director, he is not an actor, at least not one who transforms himself for a role or allows his overwhelming personality to be subsumed in a character.
My personal grief was subsumed.
