One of these, played with customary searchlight-through-fog brilliance by Tilda Swinton, leaves Gustave a valuable painting in her will; her scowling, posturing family, headed by Adrien Brody (who, it must be said, looks born to wear a hussar's uniform), will stop at nothing to deprive Gustave of his inheritance.
As I've said before we connect to others through our vulnerabilities, not through our brilliance.
But it was not brought about through technical brilliance.
Yet Cosimo did not earn his honorary title "Father of his country" through financial brilliance.
Through his brilliance, his longevity and his demeanour, he has inspired and united India's teeming generations.
He's a monstrous creation and yet through the brilliance of the writing we're able to open the character up and see he has redeeming qualities.
Similarly, Sir Fred Goodwin could come on and, in place of pesky queries about that pension, talk us through his brilliance at tap-dancing, or playing the spoons.
Equally I have recently been confronted by seeing all these "thoughts" played out before my very eyes through the brilliance of theatre and a piece simply called Thursday.
And that this epic folly eventually turned out to be an epic accomplishment, deeply flawed but shot through with brilliance and audacity -- and that it went on to make around $150 million worldwide -- boggles the mind.
Instead, they may continue to "look down," as they skillfully and sometimes arrogantly have with most problems, which they try to solve through the brilliance of their design, innovation, engineering and attention to detail of their products.
