The Office
The Office
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- mikotondria30
just an absolute lesson in comedy.... at about 4.30 when he starts to wrap it up and Tina Turner comes on... "come on....get into it..."..and jogs away.
Then when he comes back to tell her not to stop the music, the little feigned motion to the 'crowd' as if they're applauding, but not. Brutal. His character's hideous lack of self-awareness and transparency - he's a good guy who's just awful at what he's trying to do and everyone can see it, everything in that scene, every action, and line, and expression of all the people in it is set to clinically and brilliantly wind up the gnawing, awkward tension, little by little like a symphony, building, building, a little perfectly timed release here and there - e.g. '...foreword by Duncan Goodhew' he says of the little red book...just gives you a brief exhale before it continues to build and collapses like the worst car wreck as he runs out. Even then it's not done, and when he reappears the pathos almost physically painful, with that fucking hat and everything, my god.
I just don't see that level of artistry in the US version, as brilliantly talented as Steve Carrell is, there just isn't the depth of script and stagecraft in it.- lol @ 6:26, when he pulls his stomach in.detritus
- yes :)mikotondria3
- ...or the pathetic little look when he mentions Native American Wisdom...mikotondria3