> Even the best actors will read their lines the wrong way and need correction by the director.
And sometimes even the director doesn't notice. Even when they also wrote the screenplay! My favourite example is from The Matrix, @1:01:40, where Cypher says:
> The image translators work FOR the construct program, but there's way too much information to decode the Matrix
Stress on the "for", which makes no sense; he sounds like he's revealing an employee/employer relationship. The stress should be on the start of "CONstruct", since he's saying the tech works for that but not for the other. Subtle, but it changes the whole sense of the line.
Wow, I've seen that movie dozens of times and I've always thought that was the stupidest line of meaningless technobabble because of how it was delivered. It made me question whether I knew what was meant by the phrase "construct program". It's clearly the name for the training/utility simulation used by the crew, but this line always had me questioning whether it also referred to the "front end" of the Matrix itself or something. Now it makes sense!
And sometimes even the director doesn't notice. Even when they also wrote the screenplay! My favourite example is from The Matrix, @1:01:40, where Cypher says:
> The image translators work FOR the construct program, but there's way too much information to decode the Matrix
Stress on the "for", which makes no sense; he sounds like he's revealing an employee/employer relationship. The stress should be on the start of "CONstruct", since he's saying the tech works for that but not for the other. Subtle, but it changes the whole sense of the line.