Thinking something is smart when it’s not is a far worse look for a film than just admitting the stupidity of it all and rolling with it.

He elbowed his way through the crowd.

However, it is possible to characterize the real parts of holomorphic functions of several variables at least locally as those continuous functions such that their restrictions to all complex lines, not just to complex lines parallel to the coordinate axes, are real parts of holomorphic functions. The complex line in C ⁿ through a point A∈ C ⁿ in the direction of a vector B∈ C ⁿ is the one-dimensional complex submanifold of C ⁿ described parametrically as A+tB:t∈ C.

Hen. VIII. (Black letter), in Bodleian Library, occurs:-- "There was two men of _Gottam, and the one of them was going to the market to Nottingham to buy sheepe, and the other came from the market; and both met together upon Nottingham bridge.