Emma W-W’s short video about Tate Modern: The performer has indeed a motion of exasperation, whereas there is a sense of balance in his annotation between calmness and anger that makes me moved as a viewer. He chooses to say with oral word, but not giving a direct vernacular speech. Why? Maybe it is because to annotate an issue about black and white via giving a vernacular speech: how similarly remind viewers of lyrics in 2pac’s songs or American History X? However, when viewers encounter those oral words appearing lines in line on the screen and along with a quite face, the emotion is thus magically presented, beyond that when we only see the words or the still face.
I think this can also exemplify the fascination of deadpan: to use a flat and expressionless face to serve a stereoscopic function, and to transmit a weighted message. And thus I think, EWW’s video illustrated that, deadpan is able to apply on various genre but not only comedy. A face of deadpan is not only applied the function of pleasure, it could also be anger. On the other end of flatness is extravaganza. However, it could probably be another end for it, which is exasperation.
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