Really good Toby, It is difficult on the page, to emulate the way we don't finish in life, in a film ... in early drafts I do it with ... but then I feel that it might seem too staged ... which Grant is (staged) and yet he gets away with it, always. As do the great British 80s 90s actors, as you mention in the likes of Curtis films - the excellent dialogue, character, delivery. I can watch some of those films 100's of times. I actually watched Hugh Grant, as well as all the greats of rom com from Kate Winslet to Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, in 'Sense & Sensibility,' last week. The screen adaptation took Emma Thompson 5 years and has a similar balance of wit, satire, romance to the Curtis films I think.
A few years ago I was researching classical rhetoric and came across the term Aposiopesis.
I noticed that it’s something that someone close to me uses a lot!
Aposiopesis can be defined as a figure of speech in which the speaker or writer breaks off abruptly, and leaves the statement incomplete, as if not willing to state what is present in his / her mind, due to being overcome by passion, excitement, or fear.
Really good Toby, It is difficult on the page, to emulate the way we don't finish in life, in a film ... in early drafts I do it with ... but then I feel that it might seem too staged ... which Grant is (staged) and yet he gets away with it, always. As do the great British 80s 90s actors, as you mention in the likes of Curtis films - the excellent dialogue, character, delivery. I can watch some of those films 100's of times. I actually watched Hugh Grant, as well as all the greats of rom com from Kate Winslet to Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, in 'Sense & Sensibility,' last week. The screen adaptation took Emma Thompson 5 years and has a similar balance of wit, satire, romance to the Curtis films I think.
Thank you for this!
(Had a smile on for the entirety of Charles' declaration. Loved him in that film :)
Thank you Toby.
A few years ago I was researching classical rhetoric and came across the term Aposiopesis.
I noticed that it’s something that someone close to me uses a lot!
Aposiopesis can be defined as a figure of speech in which the speaker or writer breaks off abruptly, and leaves the statement incomplete, as if not willing to state what is present in his / her mind, due to being overcome by passion, excitement, or fear.
There are some examples on this page:
https://literarydevices.net/aposiopesis/
Always for the HUMS