By the 5th century BCE, Greek sculptors' mastery of anatomy resulted in greater naturalness and more varied poses. An essential innovation was contrapposto—the asymmetrical posture of a determine standing with one leg bearing the body's excess weight and also the other relaxed. An early example of this is Polykleitos' sculpture Doryphoros (c.?440

Never one to decide on a single tone or milieu, Jarmusch followed his 1995 acid western “Lifeless Guy” with this modestly budgeted but equally ambitious film about a dead man of a different kind; as tends to happen with contract killers — such given that the one Alain Delon played in Jean-Pierre Melville’s instructive “Le Samouraï” —