2/ trying to pin down where I've seen this. I've got a vague intuition that it's associated with Elmore Leonard. OK, time to dig up some examples.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kndiJVTZmNs …
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3/ crap, there are a dozen others, that I had a minute ago, now I can't remember them all. But, anyway, intend to remember that technique for writing dialogue.
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4/ YES! These were two that I was thinking of! "That is a tasty burger!" while a life hangs in the balance.https://twitter.com/robkroese/status/1218994109236621316 …
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5/ Also, Bricktop fron "Snatch". Watch the bald black dude's anxiety level rising. He wants to know who this guy is, and doesn't know, and his anxiety just keeps rising. AND BRICKTOP IS SIPPING TEA! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyEBXTL1Y3U …
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Power is currency, as is information. This is the less powerful character attempting to gain on the more powerful one with the acquisition of information.
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Dread Pirate Roberts used this to some effect.
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Interesting phrase came to me yesterday: If I can't solve a problem, it isn't a problem.
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Exactly, it’s the situation. Deal with it.
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Like the recent video of the fight/riot going on in the fast food joint with the guy in the foreground watching and calmly eating. You just know if the SHTF, he’ll be the one stacking bodies & sorting shit out.
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