Muhammadu Buhari, the former military dictator who has defeated Goodluck Jonathan, will now preside over Africa's most populous country, biggest economy and weightiest global actor.
Rather than attempting to move his weighty camera toward an actor, he set a pulley-operated chair upon a rail-fitted ramp, placed the actor (covered up to the neck in black velvet) on the chair, and pulled him toward the camera.
One would think that being acutely conscious of timing would be a weighty distraction for the actors.
The film, which Mr. Chung wrote with Samuel Anderson (with dialogue mostly improvised by the nonprofessional actors), allows weighty themes of vengeance, justice and forgiveness to hover around the characters and their actions rather than trying to dramatize them too pointedly.
Babette Mangolte's extraordinary photography blends soft and harsh light to reveal a diverse domestic landscape of reflection and shadow, matte and gloss, rendering the apartment and its bland, weighty furnishings as expressive as the actors.
"Episodes" isn't a weighty series at all, but these actors elevate every scene they are in with spot-on comic timing and a graceful ability to play a range of conflicting emotions at once.
Directors whose validation is consensually accepted as evidence that an actor is surprisingly funny, intelligent, weighty, versatile or cool (delete as required) are gold dust to these people.
The character Kenneth Waters – who died shortly after the events recounted – is a weightier, more sombre version of the several extreme cases that the actor has played in his time.
Alongside the rather weighty choice of relaxing the formal system so as to include a wider array of plant varieties and actors, the establishment of derogatory ad hoc regimes in the form of book logs or flexible national (or regional) registers of uncertified seed could be options worth considering.
