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intonation, glances or pauses in speech. This leads to another observation regarding subtext --
Subtext makes the audience complicit in the behavior of the actor displaying subtext. The spectator
and the character share a secret that the other character in the scene does not. This increases the
spectator’s involvement, holding the spectator’s interest much more than just a superficial
interpretation of the text would. An important point to note is that subtext and text/dialogue may or
may not be consistent with each other
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, but subtext must always be consistent with the objective.
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