Guest and Levy write backgrounds for each of the characters and notecards for each specific scene, outlining the plot, and then leave it up to the actors to improvise the dialogue, which is supposed to result in a much more natural conversation than scripted dialogue would.

He played an English surfer with a fear of sharks, who interrupts a conversation between two main characters to ask whether there were any sharks in the sea.

When Francis comes up in a conversation among characters in Castiglione's Book of the Courtier, it is as the great hope to bring culture to the war-obsessed French nation.

Manny can engage in dialogue with other characters through conversation trees to gain hints of what needs to be done to solve the puzzles or to progress the plot.

However some of these time shifts / imaginings occur when there are present characters onstage ; one example of this is during a conversation between Willy and his neighbor Charley.

He structures his three dialogues as a conversation between two abstract " characters ": Philo, representing love or appetite, and Sophia, representing science or wisdom, Philo + Sophia ( philosophia ).

This article describes the conversation between the two characters during this scene as “ barely legible as male friendship ”.

In that same special, Ernie and Bert had a conversation with Doc, making them the only Sesame Street characters ( not counting Kermit the Frog ) to have interacted with Doc.

The short was shot in 2001 for The Tonight Show and features the two main characters from Clerks stuck in traffic having a somewhat similar conversation as the one in Clerks where the two are driving to a funeral and discussing sexual curiosity.

Sometimes, the conversation is with other recurring deceased characters, most notably Nathaniel Fisher, Sr.

The show also frequently employed a technique known as " Walk and Talk ", where the characters are walking from one location to the next while in conversation.

After a specific number of turns have accumulated, the player is given the option to view a support conversation between the two characters ; this process can occur up to three times.

Ace and Gary set out to foil the evil plan, but not before calling attention to themselves with outrageous antics and innuendo, and behaving in ways perceived by other characters to be stereotypically homosexual, as in this conversation from the first episode:

In between, Merlini and other characters deliver great chunks of informative conversation mixed with paragraphs of information about entirely unrelated but fascinating topics, like yogic bilocation, making the keys of a typewriter move without touching them, and even posing a tricky problem in geometry.

Events, such as his wife's miscarriage, are only related in conversation with the principal characters.

The film follows various characters and scenes, never staying with one character or conversation for more than a few minutes before picking up someone else in the scene and following them.

Ultimately, Baker encounters his own writer ( Grant Morrison himself ), and the two share a conversation on the relationship between the creator and the fictional characters whose lives they write.

This in opposition to infodumping, where a concentrated amount of background material is given all at once in the story, often in the form of a conversation between two characters, both of whom should already know the material under discussion.

Incluing can be done in a number of ways: through conversation between characters, through background details or by establishing scenes where a character is followed through daily life.

As early as 1983, Portopia Serial Murder Case featured non-linear elements, which includes travelling between different areas in a generally open world, a branching dialogue conversation system where the story develops through entering commands and receiving responses from other characters, and making choices that determine the dialogues and order of events as well as alternate outcomes, though there is only one true culprit while the others are red herrings.

Peppermint Patty often tries to talk to Charlie Brown about matters of the heart ( often depicted with both characters sitting under a tree ) and even calls him often on the phone ( usually taking up the majority of the conversation ), but Charlie Brown usually manages to somehow evade the issue, often by simply playing dumb.

A scene in Woody Allen's movie Annie Hall, in which subtitles explain the characters ' inner thoughts during an apparently innocent conversation, is an example of the subtext of a scene being made explicit.

Microphones in overhead lighting fixtures would pick up the sounds of normal conversation while an operator would respond via the characters.

In her medieval novels particularly, she makes her characters, including Huns and Mongols, speak in semi-colloquial English, apparently intended to give the reader the impression of listening in on a conversation in the speakers ' own vernacular.

This creates little extra noise, and if the mobile signal strength is sufficient, the user on the POTS line will be able to carry on a conversation.

Their conversation and dinner passed in a warm and friendly atmosphere ''.

Absorbing this heady atmosphere, Yahya and Abu Imran fell into conversation on the state of the faith in their western homelands, and Yahya expressed his disappointment on the lack of religious education and negligence of Islamic law among his southern Sanhaja people.

The equipment hut comprised a minute workshop at one end, an office in the middle and another minute room at the other end, used as a kitchen and after-work gathering place while dinner was prepared: after returning from the pub, conversation would be animated as one of them hammered veal then cooked wiener schnitzel in an atmosphere " thick with fug ".

The place is dark and eerie in the long hours before dawn, with the three often seeking refuge in alcohol and conversation in the pharmacy's warmer atmosphere.

Later in the episode, two alien conspirators acknowledge, in private conversation, that the sandkings could become a serious problem in about thirty years, assuming that they could survive in a methane-based atmosphere, which the aliens intended to gradually transform from the Earth's human-friendly one.

Or, in other words, the revisions reflect “ ‘ the expansion of aphorisms into statements that approach conversation ’… corresponds to a more tolerant humanism .” This tolerance is perhaps best demonstrated in regards to the ubiquitous Woman Question, a debate which continued to play a large role in the social atmosphere of Renaissance Britain.

Trauth found that even as Ireland transitioned away from an economy and society dominated by agriculture, the traditional importance of atmosphere and the art of conversation – craic – remains, and that the social life is a fundamental part of workers ' judgment of quality of life.

The setting needed to be easily accessible and offer a relaxed atmosphere, fostering easy conversation and exchange of ideas.

During a conversation with Chapuys following the Boleyns ' deaths, Cromwell boasted that he had gone to a great deal of trouble arranging the plot, suggesting he did so in order to assist an alliance with Spain.

He also denied saying anything suggesting such a conversation.

As the movie opens they are in the midst of a conversation where Uekyo asks her if she has a man, suggesting some lesbian undertones.

Robert L. Forward joined the conversation at this point, suggesting that instead of using a pellet stream to support the top of a traditional tensional cable, a vertical pellet stream shot straight up from Earth's surface could support a station and provide a path for payloads to travel without requiring a cable at all.

Joshua Reynolds would on request produce conversation pieces in the Grand Manner, and at his usual near-life scale.

After the usual refreshments, and the usual conversation, the evening came upon us.

In this mode, in addition to the usual long-term, strategic " love meter ", the girl you are conversing with has a short-term, tactical " heartthrob meter " representing her level of immediate interest in the conversation with you.

It was a talk show unlike the usual late-night fare, with Snyder, cigarette in hand, alternating between asking hard-hitting questions and offering personal observations that made the interview closer to a conversation.

Along with the usual " find the key " solution, the player is also often required to engage in conversation with non-player characters, or use a certain spell ( usually the " Scrye " spell ) in order to find out how to proceed.