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** And yet, he has no signs of this in ''[[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure]]''. So, yeah, he can do things besides Dull Surprise... or at least he used to.
*** Reeves playing [[The Stoner|a stoner]]? May be a case of typecasting.
** Reeves' best acting ever may have been in the otherwise not great 2008 remake of ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'': he plays an alien whose affect is chilly and inhuman, and is wonderfully natural in the part. [[Deceptively
** Never more obvious than when he played the good guy in ''[[The Devils Advocate]],'' next to Al Pacino playing [[Satan]]. How can you root for the hero when the villain cares so much more?
** Used pretty well in ''[[Speed (Film)|Speed]]'', where he reacts to each new piece of danger with chilly competence, only to completely lose it when {{spoiler|his partner is killed.}}
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** Fred Clark, at [http://slacktivist.typepad.com Slacktivist], has credited Cameron's acting style to his having learned to act as a child actor in a family sitcom: child actors in such shows learn, primarily, a) to mug and b) to wait until someone else has delivered a line. "[http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2009/02/lbtm-the-worst-mankind-has-ever-seen.html Watch CamCam's reaction] and see if ''you'' can spot one. CamCam isn't talking, so CamCam isn't acting."
* According to [[Sergio Leone]], in the '60s, [[Clint Eastwood]] had "two facial expressions: one with the hat, and one without it". His acting style evolved a lot since then.
** Legend has it that Leone once explained Eastwood's appeal by saying that "when Michelangelo looked at a block of marble, he saw David; when I looked at Eastwood, I saw a block of marble." Leone was initially drawn to Eastwood by his restrained performance as Rowdy Yates in ''Rawhide'', and the two men worked hard to perfect this for ''[[A
* [[M Night Shyamalan]]' ''[[The Last Airbender (Film)|The Last Airbender]]''. Every child character, for every situation, in every scene throughout the entire movie. Especially [[It Is Pronounced Tro PAY|Aang/Ong]]. His reactions are so incredibly mild, that he might not have ''enough'' emotion to qualify for this trope.
** See this for a comparison of the show and the movie: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/148/duuuuuuuuuuuuh.png/
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== Web Originals ==
* [[Suburban Knights|"Dude,]] [[...And Show It to You|that's my heart."]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oz88kJSdT6Y#t=38s Halifax's city flower is the broad-chested rose. Its city emotion is mild surprise. "Oh. Haha a puppy."]
* "nnnNo..." pretty much sums up Youtube user [http://www.youtube.com/user/TedCrusty TedCrusty's] videos.
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