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</TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>It's all in the follow through.  With a lot of actors, that'd be the end of the scene, or they'd just fall flat.  Instead we get this gradual slide down the wall, as Casey braces himself against it in order to control his drop.  Then his legs go out in front of him and stretch out slowly.  Finally, just when you think he's completely down, his foot falls sideways and there's a final exhale. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25a584e0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="334" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="273584c0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="332" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25c584c0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="332" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25d584d0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="333" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="25e584c0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="332" 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Turn</B></U></A><B>.  The mouth hangs open as it would naturally if not held shut, the eyelids droop in a similar way, and all the facial muscles are slack.  A main difference is that in this scene the whole body collapses, while during The Turn Elijah has to keep upright and moving while his face is completely lifeless.    </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What's most amazing to me in this shot is that Casey's </B><I><B>talking </B></I><B>while he's in this nothingness.  His mouth barely moves as he says, "You wouldn't have liked it here, anyway."   The line often gets laughs, and that's fitting in a way.  But realizing how dead Casey is when he says it makes me hear it a bit differently.  At the end of his collapse above, he and the alien almost seem to be a matched set.   I wonder if he isn't feeling a bit of empathy - this was Mary Beth, after all, someone who "just wanted to fit in."  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>(One of my very few plot questions in this movie is why the alien didn't reshape into Mary Beth at the end.  She knows how hard it is for Casey to kill anyone, and I don't know if he could have killed her in Mary Beth form.  Is she just too angry to think of it?  Or maybe she doesn't take his threat seriously and assumes she's still winning?)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="26e58500.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="336" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="278dabe0.jpg" border=0 width="218" height="190" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="26f584e0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="334" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="274584f0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="335" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="270584d0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="333" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The alien begins to crumble.  Again, the alien and Casey make kind of a 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