Sentences with phrase «black character who»

For her Civil War drama The Beguiled, Coppola defended her decision to nix the black character who had played a major part in the source novel by explaining she didn't want to include a token slave character without properly fleshing the character out.

Other characters are brought on and primed for spin - offs: Tom Holland's Spider - Man, the second big - screen reboot of Spidey this century, impresses in a chattery cameo; Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther (a black character who isn't primarily someone's second best friend) is fluid in action and stiff out of costume in a potentially interesting way.

So to hear Rae talk about standing up to a room full of network execs, her new bosses, and fight for two insecure black characters who have messy lives and are fully realized as complex characters?

I wanted black characters who weren't gangsters or foster children or civil rights heroes, Muslim characters who weren't refugees or terrorists, and GLBTQ * characters who weren't painted in the broadest, easiest terms.

Not exact matches

De Abreu, 27, the co-founder of StopBlackFace.com, was describing a protest in Rotterdam last November, in which she was among roughly 200 activists arrested while protesting the controversial Black Pete (Zwarte Piet) character - St Nicolas» Moorish «helper», who is portrayed with a painted black face and curlyBlack Pete (Zwarte Piet) character - St Nicolas» Moorish «helper», who is portrayed with a painted black face and curlyblack face and curly wig.

(The series is based on a character who first appeared in July 1966, predating the formation of the Black Panther party by a few months.)

For people who watch Black - ish, the line between Anderson and the character he plays seems very thin.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

We have seen how the American success ideal has taken its toll on women, on youth, on all groups who do not approximate the Anglo - Saxon Protestant ideal of character — above all on blacks.

At the premiere of the play titled «One Million Pounds» one of the interesting character was the role played By Lionel Lawson as Cliff in the play, a Black Ghanaian who was make - up to look British.

One need only turn on the television to watch Machine Gun Preacher for a similar portrayal of a white character who travels to «Africa» to «save the children» against the backdrop of black - on - black slaughter, rape and torture which is never historically contextualised (see The Guardian's Catherine Shoard's critique of the white criminal - turned - saviour character of Sam in Machine Gun Preacher as «half saint, half psychopath»).

I want someone with the proven strength to persevere, someone who knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and can not be boiled down to 140 characters.

Steppin» Out's Chaunce Hayden, who traffics in busty characters like these almost as busily as Davis did, reports that the madam is seeking to sell the names from her little black book back to the New York heavyweights and Hollywood stars that are in it.

The book's main character is a black marketeer who breaks into the zone and pilfers alien objects such as a metal ring that defies the laws of physics and batteries that provide seemingly endless energy.

, and its main character, Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko, who accentuated the everyman - persona aspect of the role with heavy black frames.

It was such a cult classic movie that those of us who are old enough to have seen Beetlejuice during the late 80s or 90s tend to associate chunky black and white stripes with the character.

For those of you who don't know, Valent Chamber is a pretty cool site that features fan fiction and original fiction with black women as the main characters and more often than not in interracial relationships.

What's more, the choice to largely wipe from existence characters who are more or less vital to the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a going concern (especially Star - Lord, Spider - Man, and freakin» Black Panther) so dramatically inflates the stakes that it becomes all but certain the next movie will reverse most of these deaths.

«Deathly Hallows 2» also brings back, if only fitfully, many of the wonderful British character actors who have flitted in and out of the series, including Gary Oldman as Sirius Black, Jim Broadbent as potions professor Horace Slughorn, and Maggie Smith, whose Professor Minerva McGonagall crisply defends Hogwarts against Voldemort's looming hordes.

De Niro's character is opposed to the idea of a black Navy diver, but his master chief is first and foremost a diver, and if you love doing something enough, you come to respect others who do it well.

And the most compelling character of all, a sci - fi nerd named Lionel (played, wonderfully, by Tyler James Williams), becomes a pawn of three distinct parties: The (white) editor of the student newspaper, the (white) housemates he's been unhappily thrown in with, and the (black) students who don't know what to make of him.

And then perhaps my favorite character, T'Challa's sister and tech expert Shuri (think Q in the James Bond movies), is played by the little - known British actor Letitia Wright, who's probably best known for a Black Mirror episode in the States.

The two leads captivate us with strong performances in this simple walk - and - talk film, playing intelligent characters who spend a day together on a date through black culture in America, but the movie is also a bit too respectful and borders occasionally on hagiography.

The supporting characters are usually an afterthought, but in Black Panther, they are so well drawn that they seem every bit as interesting, perhaps even more so, than the main protagonist himself, who is either mostly masked or obvious CG during his battle sequences, whereas we are always aware as the women fight, with full acting and facial expressions to root us into their fight in the moment.

Although this represents the first full outing for the Black Panther character (who made his debut in Captain America: Civil War), it's more of an «introduction story» than an «origin story.»

Ironically, Black Panther is most successful in its treatment of the main villain, Erik «Killmonger» Stevens, played by Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station and Creed), a character who ends up being more sympathetic in his cause than the titular hero.

Among his Wakandan countrymen and retinue are a number of remarkably fleshed - out characters with complex relationships, and a veritable who's who of black actors, including Letitia Wright as his sister Shuri; Lupita Nyong» o as his ex-flame Nakia; Danai Gurira as Okoye, the head of his all - women bodyguard; and Daniel Kaluuya as his best friend W'Kabi.

When you have a character who runs around in a dark black costume, you need some detail and deep rich blacks.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

His character, Jerry Black, is an exhausted Nevada policeman in his 60's who just wants to go fishing.

On the way to their final destination, the bumbling threesome run across various colorful characters including a fast - talking one - eyed bible salesman, a black man who just sold his soul to the devil in return for musical talent, a trio of sexy sirens, the KKK and many other quirky members of the Deep South personnel.

The story gets a lot of humor out of Po; Jack Black's voicing invests him with more personality than you'd expect from a character who resembles a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.

This time out, Kung Fu Panda 2 rewards us all with a terrific script that actually adds charadter development to the previously introduced characters, brings up to date everyone who may have missed Kung Fu Panda (the first) and sets up a very big surprise for our lead character, the clumsy kung fu master iPo (Jack Black) to discover in Kung Fu Panda 3, coming in 2013 or 2014.

It's taken a number of years for a Black Panther film to come to fruition, which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who knows the long history of the character even getting his own comic book line.

It's only upon reflection that viewers may realize that, despite its nominal title character, the movie never delves that deeply into who Gloria Grahame was, aside from a femme fatale slinking across a black - and - white screen.

... And finally, as well as a first look image of Ryan Guzman as his as - yet - unrevealed character, NBC's Heroes revival Heroes Reborn has picked up another couple of recurring guest stars this week, with Dylan Bruce (Orphan Black) signing on for a mystery role, and Nazneen Contractor (24) set to play Farah, «a mysterious character who is militant, tough and stoic.»

As the wife of a white man, thrown in jail while pregnant, a mother of small children, who becomes the driving force behind changing archaic laws that forbid a white man bedding down with a black woman, Negga virtually disappears into the character.

Well, Shane Black — who played Hawkins opposite Schwarzenegger in the 1987 original — responded to a fan on Twitter that, basically, Arnold wanted more screen time than his character was originally given.

«I love playing this character,» Johansson told Entertainment Tonight on the set of Avengers: Infinity War, before reports that a Black Widow film is in development, «and I think there is definitely an opportunity to explore the Widow as a woman who has come into her own and is making independent and active choices for herself, probably for once in her life.

Several of today's male heroes, including Zachary Levi (Heroes Reborn), Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black), Sam Heughan (Outlander), Kevin Durand (The Strain) and Michael Cudlitz (The Walking Dead) who will discuss the thrills and fears of taking on iconic characters, reveal how they broke into the business, and share their favorite stories from set.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Smiley is not the kind of character we usually affiliate with Oldman — who made his name on such larger - than - life characters as Sid Vicious, Beethoven and Sirius Black — but he gives a career - defining performance as the taciturn gentleman - spy.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Kane, who perhaps not coincidentally bears the same name as John Hurt's character in «Alien,» then coughs up blood, and is taken away in an ambulance, which is forced off the road by black SUVs, full of men who snatch him, drug Lena and whisk them off to a secret locale deep in the heart of a conspiracy.

Black Panther's Erik Killmonger has quickly emerged as one of the most fascinating entries in the MCU's rogues gallery, a group of characters who — with a few notable exceptions — had mostly previously been home to flatly drawn C - listers like Guardians Of The Galaxy's Ronan The Accuser and whatever Corey Stoll's deal in...

20th Century Fox has revealed the first teaser trailer for The Predator, a new take on the Predator sci - fi action franchise, this time directed by Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys)- who appeared in the original Predator as the character Hawkins.

The opening sequence, in particular, completely avoids mentioning the history of its starring characters: the Harlem Hellfighters, an American battalion who were forced to enlist with the French during WWI because they were black.

For characters like Black Panther and Spider - Man, who'll get their own solo films directed by Ryan Coogler and Jon Watts, where does the question of authorship fall in terms of casting and development?

Martin Freeman also joins the MCU as a new character, who Latino Review claims is Everett K. Ross, an interrogator and expert on all matters related to Black Panther's Wakanda.

But with all the excitement in the air, there are some folks who don't know that Black Panther won't be the first film based on a Marvel character with a black Black Panther won't be the first film based on a Marvel character with a black black lead.