Shaping these vignettes to bring out all their grotesque and boisterous life (and there isn't a dud among them), Minghella demonstrates a talent for violence that he's never suggested before.
Arriving in the rural town of Banshee, Pa., in search of the woman who was his lover and partner in crime 15 years ago, the protagonist — who exhibits both a standard-issue laconic likableness and a talent for violence — seizes the opportunity to assume the identity of one Lucas Hood, who dies just before starting his new job as sheriff.
Armed only with a haircut that suggests he has spent too much time watching Don (the Dragon) Wilson, Ting battles a crime lord's impressive numbers with a healthy, awe-inspiring talent for violence and without the use of wire-assisted special effects that even martial acrobats like Jackie Chan and Jet Li demand.
Strutting down the street in the pastel-colored world, they become imbued with a surprisingly dark and acerbic humor with a talent for violence.
Ken Cazan's direction shows a particular talent for physical violence.
You don't hear an awful lot about New Jim's talent for domestic violence either, though Old Jim was at pains to emphasise this comic turn.
Mr. Friedkin, a director with a talent for kinetic screen violence, never finds his groove with "Killer Joe," which lurches from realism to corn-pone absurdism and exploitation-cinema surrealism.
The German-born Roland Emmerich, who made everything in "Independence Day" into a pop-cult joke, turns out to have a talent not only for violence but for straightforward exposition, and even for reverent celebration.
Boxing, of course, has long been a favorite fictional device for moving characters up the social ladder; it's a sport that takes what is assumed to be a lower-class talent -- a skill in physical violence -- and ennobles it with an upper-class income.
The WWE has been plagued by domestic violence allegations towards its talent in the past and after the backlash the NFL faced, WWE took a strong stance.
