If an animated cartoon costs $100 per second, then every production could save $1,700 by having a character seek to go unnoticed by pretending to be an unblinking statue. The following interior monologue could play over a still frame:
Perhaps if I stay silent, breathe quietly, and hold myself rigid, no one will notice me. I mustn't blink; I mustn't twitch; for I am a majestic marble statue, mute and blind (albeit wearing spectacles). Motionless stand I upon no pedestal, for Mother Earth is my plinth.
