“his mastery of gesture”
from the wikipedia on Baryshnikov.
For the past two weeks I have been completely obsessed with watching and re-watching Katt Williams’ routines. It’s not even the content of the jokes, it’s the way he uses his body and his voice, it feels like music and dance.
Tonight on TBTL, a segment on hit songs from flop movies brought up “Say You Say Me” from “White Nights,” a favorite from childhood. I watched the below clip and a clip of “Push Comes to Shove,” a video I watched quite a lot as a kid. (My sister was in ballet.)
Read the wikipedia, see that phrase, lightbulb.
I feel like this is what I need to develop as a writer. Always the explaining with me, the detail. They have their place, and you don’t throw out one thing just because you get a wild hair about another.
But the gesture, right, the gesture!
I have always loved cartoons, how much action is conveyed with the fewest of pen lines. This is what I am responding to in Katt Williams and Baryshnikov. The gesture! Something to think about/work on.
