PRAGMATIC: Opacity
From Isaac: I was wrong. It isn't that he's a bad actor, it's that he's an opaque one. Whether by choice or by specificity of talents, Brad Pitt is not going to reveal himself to you onscreen, ever. The movies of his that succeed are the ones that know this and use it to their advantage. Opacity in performance"an acting style in which the subtext of a character is present but kept secret"is made possibl…