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Am I alone on thinking Daisy suffers from this in her earlier Mario Party appearances?
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: YMMV or no?
, started by Raso on Mar 7th 2011 at 3:45:16 PM
I'm curious as to whether "dull surprise" is connected at all to the common mondegreen from Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love," "I'll give you my dull [dawn] surprise."
So, I've seen this trope used to highlight when a character reacts with literal dull surprise, as they're caught so flat-footed by something that their brain is still processing what happened during the initial reaction. Is there a more fitting trope for this type of situation?
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SirTopHat
I'm very confused here. This isn't the right expression for being shocked/angry/upset/afraid/etc? For me, when I have these emotions, the problem at hand requires my attention, so I don't bother making any special facial expression. That's what comes out. If you're in a tight spot, why would you bother taking the effort to make your face look different? It takes effort for me, I don't know if it's not supposed to or something.
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The issue is that you are you; actors are actors and they have to show us the emotions, not just allegedly feel them. They can't have the same facial expression for every scene or it seems off. Walking the fine line between over and under emoting is a large part of what makes a good actor. Part of your confusion may be that some of the examples are bad ones- I'm planning to clean that up shortly
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The issue is that you are you; actors are actors and they have to show us the emotions, not just allegedly feel them. They can't have the same facial expression for every scene or it seems off. Walking the fine line between over and under emoting is a large part of what makes a good actor. Part of your confusion may be that some of the examples are bad ones- I'm planning to clean that up shortly
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Well it seems that a commonly agreed one is Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars II and III. I could tell from the context how he was feeling, and he reacted the way I would have. They say the "I'm overwhelmed" part is bad writing, but that's the way I would have reacted. I could feel myself relating to the way he acted through the whole movie really, which is rare for other movies. Most of the time I think actors are overacting. I guess I'm just a strange outlier.
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I just added a note to the description stating that this trope is Truth in Television. My reasoning is basically what Sir Top Hat just said — because we all grow up watching movies, T.V. shows, and plays where people over-act, we tend to forget that in real life it's not natural to show a lot of emotion. When we do show emotion, it's often because other people are around to see us — or because we've watched so much T.V. that we all think it's what we're supposed to do.
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It seems like this trope is being used to critique bad acting. Isn't that YMMV?
Is this trope supposed to be a positive or negative thing? Very well-known actors and actresses use dull surprise, and it isn't clear whether this can really be well-played at all.
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Tropes Are Tools. Though positive or negative, I think most of the time it's unintentional.
You can play it positively and maybe have a reason for this trope being in play. For instance, if the character is so scared their brain can't muster a proper Oh, Crap! reaction, resulting in what looks more deadpan than it actually is. It's like the fear version of Tranquil Fury.
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May I suggest another picture?
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Sure. Please start a thread in Image Pickin'.
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Isn't anyone else bothered by the fact that having animated robots as the page picture is a little self-defeating? By their nature they'd be pretty bad at expressing emotion, so it's not really an invocation of the trope since there is no other possibility.
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I don't know... in some other series they show emotion. And it doesn't look like they are staring blankly at something.
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Isn't anyone else bothered by the fact that having animated robots as the page picture is a little self-defeating? By their nature they'd be pretty bad at expressing emotion, so it's not really an invocation of the trope since there is no other possibility.
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Where did the image come from? As in which issue? I remember having it a while ago and then losing it somehow.
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MST 3 K was possibly referencing a lyric from the Janice Ian song "Seventeen". Perhaps add details of this?
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