They presented nearly air-tight characters; they dived right into the 1920s: dialects, racial caricatures and all.
Chuck Norris is now a frontrunner with almost 9,000 votes (about 11%), ahead of Pato Pal, a tight-fisted character in a poem by favourite Hungarian poet Sandor Petoffi.
Grahame, whose onscreen default expression, in her years of peak performance, was a proud sneer that transcended peevishness and defied the world at large, was a tighter, snarlier character than the open, receptive Bening.
A dinner-table anecdote from his stepfather, about a colleague who was approached for treatment by a member of the Mafia, provided the cute premise for Lonergan's first successful screenplay, "Analyze This," which he wrote when he was in his early thirties, largely to support his less lucrative vocation as a playwright of tight-focus character dramas, including "Lobby Hero" and "This Is Our Youth".
"I sometimes think the episode might just be a vehicle to get us to the balcony scene," Mr. Spader said, clad in one of Shore's elegant pinstripe suits, his diction as tight as his character's, during a pause in filming on a recent afternoon.
When they wrinkled it was like folds of silk drawn tight with witty character, and when she smiled, complete and balanced, a deep dimple appeared on each side of her precious grin.
It focuses on a tight knot of characters caught in an episode near the end of a mythical or historical story.
Holding tight to his characters with long takes and closeups, capturing them only at the breaking points in their lives, Garrel balances a hypnotic romanticism with the frightening lurch of unsteady emotions.
But while those films felt zoomed into a tight set of characters, The Cloverfield Paradox encompasses a whole earth on the brink of panic.
Colin Covert of the Star Tribune gave the film a positive review, saying "It takes everything that's made Pixar shorthand for animation excellence -- strong characters, tight pacing, spot-on voice casting, a warm sense of humor and visuals that are pure, pixilated bliss -- and carries them to the next stage".
