Re: Favorite Delenn scenes?
Author: Mark Maher
Email: markamaher@worldnet.att.net
Date: 1997/05/15
Forums: alt.fan.mira-furlan
Message-ID: <6jgckv$258@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>
Paul Rubin <phr@netcom.com> wrote in article
<phrEstIJp.KFz@netcom.com>...
> In reaction to this stuff about mugging for the camera and histrionics,
> does anyone want to name some favorite and especially well-acted
> Delenn scenes?
Some of my favorite scenes are those where she doesn't say *anything* but
her face speaks *volumes* of dialogue. In "Confessions and Lamentations"
right after Lennier find Sha'naar's (the little Markab girl) mother, we see
the girl stagger after hugging her mother and the scene cuts back to Delenn
and she give the greatest "instant-realization-of-horror" look I have ever
seen. Actually, that entire episode had a number of wonderful Delenn
scenes. The dinner ceremony, where she has to guide John through the ritual
of eating the meal (by the time she said "We may eat now - with the *right*
hand." I was rolling on the floor!). Then after John leaves, Lennier says
something in Minbari and Delenn responds back in Minbari. Though we will
never know for sure exactly what was said, the meaning seems pretty clear.
It was just perfect! The confrontation where she goes to John to ask to be
allowed into the isolation zone, "I didn't know that similarity was
required for the exercise of compassion!" WHACK! Then, that final scene
when John, Stephen & Susan go to the isolation zone. Bill and Mira were
both just great. The emotion was just so *raw* in both of them.
Another of my favorites will be replayed tomorrow in the States. It comes
at the start of "Endgame". Right after Marcus leaves Susan's side and exits
the room, the shot tightens on Delenn as she looks at Susan and the grief
and loss just *wells up* on her face. Then, as if having said a final,
silent good-bye, her expression changes back to all business. She nods
slightly as if reassuring herself that sending Susan back to Babylon 5 is
the right thing to do, then turns and leaves.
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Gizmo
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