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Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: https://mubi.com/loficinema Check out our storytelling masterclass available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/work-your-ideas-150674674 How much does the face actually need to do in a movie? Why do restrained performances work, and how can movies communicate character and emotion when the face is doing less, or isn’t visible at all? 0:00 Zendaya: How Much Does the Face Need to Do? 1:57 Ryan Gosling and the Kuleshov Effect 5:14 Spider-Man and the Problem of the Mask 8:40 How The Mandalorian Builds a Performance 14:41 Robert Bresson and “Blank” Acting --- NOTE: I had to cut a few moments from the video after publishing because of YouTube copyright claims. That included a bit about the role music plays in how we read a performance, which is obviously a big part of all this. --- Music: 10 Love - Four Roses Dance Party, Kanye West - Father (Instrumental), Puia - JID x Denzel Curry type beat "Ghost", Elxamos - BOW BOW BOW, Fred again.. x BIA - Feisty, Souleance - J'aime Marcher, An Upsetting Theme - The Descent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/