They have the comfort level and the necessary courage to talk about and underline emotions that are universally valid and not only personal and that acts as a useful proxy to those who refuse to access them.
But the sound of those tapes is further muddled, with kitschy sound effects (when there's a shot of trees, Riley adds the sound of leaves rustling in the wind) and bland yet overly emphatic music that, by underlining the emotions of Brando's remarks, dulls and flattens them.
As a star vehicle for Costner, we see him in virtually every frame, underlining his emotions, doubling down on the anger and re-writing the Guiness Record Book for cinematic bottle draining.
The director, Michael Curtiz, even manages a lovely little camera movement to underline the emotion of the scene, no mean feat at a time when film technique was still severely circumscribed by the encumbrances of early sound recording.
Like the next three films in the set "No Blood Relation" is punctuated by a frequent, self-conscious use of a curious, rapid dolly-in effect meant to underline the emotion of a close-up, a bit of unnecessary stylistic goosing that suggests some of the more zoom-happy directors of today.
Remember that next time you are faced with what might be a routine presentation: tell a story that's underlined with emotion and you just might win the room.
By the end, Nunn seems to have lost interest in them and the final, bad music -- underlining every emotion in italics -- is played by musicians situated in the second level rafters.
It was underlined that emotion comprehension plays a critical role in adaptive behavior, since it promotes survival and guides human behavior by exerting a direct influence on brain responsiveness and psychophysiological activities.
This unnecessary, expressionistic underlining of the emotions that had been so delicately and palpably conveyed by the actors destroys the atmosphere that was building so beautifully.
"Fences," Denzel Washington's adaptation of the August Wilson play, also presents a portrait of mid-century black life, but one that underlines every big emotion and moral reckoning.
