Thing I've noticed watching film clips recently: in a tense confrontation, the more powerful character is the one who can ignore the situation at hand and engage in trivia. The less powerful character needs resolution - because their lack of power makes them dependent on info.
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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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If tolerance for ambiguity represents power, I may be the most powerful person alive.
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The Blacklist does this all the time with Red’s soliloquies. I wonder if Hannibal Lecter epitomizes the trope. I’ve never seen it work in real life and it gets old fast.
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"You only feel pressure when you don't know what you're doing."
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-Chuck Noll
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Quentin Tarantino does this a lot. Bad guys talk about trivia while the protagonist sweats. Also Goodfellas
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One DM I played with tended to have his villains monologue. He was most annoyed when I got into the habit of treating that as a way to get the first shot.
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