Raising one eyebrow is difficult. I wonder constantly, every day, how Nimoy thought of it. Was it written in a character sketch? Is there dramatic precedent?
I guess there would have to be, because there's precedent for everything dramatic. But if you can't do some thing unusual, you're not going to think of using it dramatically. "I need to wiggle my ears" won't pop into your head. So this is really very mysterious, and I think I've laid out all the facts I have.
If you watch the series (it's Star Trek), you'll notice Kirk does it too. Well, he does. I watched. So he must have thought of it simultaneously, which would be really remarkable [everybody raise one eyebrow] ~ OR he stole it from Nimoy; or Nimoy stole it from him; or one of them saw the other doing it and tried to learn ~ tried 'til they could do it, and once they learned they couldn't stop.
The first time Kirk did it and Nimoy saw him, Nimoy knew Kirk had learned this rare or unprecedented drama-form from him, and he became irrational and threw his wooden phaser. They scuffled; tipping the set side to side like the Klingons.
This was caught on film and used over and over. |
