Eisenberg is best known for portraying neurotic, verbal characters such as Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Network" or the reporter interviewing David Foster Wallace in "The End of the Tour".
We are so used to seeing semi-verbal characters onscreen taciturn Diesels and blank-eyed Pitts, funny goofs of both sexes that, at first, the sound of fully articulate people may be a little embarrassing.
Despite the outrageous slapstick — verbal (e.g., character names like the Generals Jack D. Ripper and Buck Turgidson) and physical (e.g., the squirting Coke machine, Slim Pickens's final ride) — the political satire seemed quite subtle.
The humor here resides chiefly in the layered absurdity of the characters' verbal exchanges.
The characters' verbal parsimony is to be equated with dignity and depth, the author's extravagance with a literary godliness.
His name is Baby Ikki, an alter ego of Michael Smith, the New York performance artist who first wobbled out the pre-verbal, diaper-clad character in 1975.
To that end, give your characters verbal tics, or words and phrases that they only use, or grammatical errors that are specific to them.
In providing sheer moviegoing satisfaction — plot, characters, verbal wit and visual delight, cheap laughs and honest sentiment — "Toy Story 3" is wondrously generous and inventive.
He added that "in providing sheer moviegoing satisfaction -- plot, characters, verbal wit and visual delight, cheap laughs and honest sentiment -- 'Toy Story 3' is wondrously generous and inventive".
In real life, Ms. Morton is not much more verbal than her characters, at least when she is suffering from the combined influences of a cold, jet lag and a premiere party the night before.
