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    physical and environmental conditions. For example, one of the provided examples showed James Stewart’s character Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington battling fatigue during his filibuster. The actor, Stewart, most likely was not battling the actuality of fatigue, however the audience would not detect that because through his façade it would appear that his character, Smith, could barely hold himself up. While obstacles in a film or a scene often take shape in the form of a problem that

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