Sentences with phrase «about my female characters»

I have been really following my intuition and I have found a great source of excitement and inspiration in stories about these female characters.

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Their responses and notes about the female characters could be transcripts from pitch meetings today: age the characters down, recast them with younger starlets, and beef up the non-essential role of the sexy neighbor.

Just let these facts sink in for a second: Pixar's team, co-directors Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen, who co-wrote the screenplay with Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley, created a movie about a female character that is literally all about her emotions — and it is an unabashed box - office hit.

Dim the House Lights has an excellent piece expanding on my frustrations with X-Men Days of Future Past and the X-franchise's unwillingness to care about its female characters.

Published in 2002, it was a collection of nine different stories, each one about a female character who confronts the author's trademark mix of challenging plot twists and some very untrustworthy people, according to the book's review at Amazon.

When she told me about the female characters she liked in books and movies, she would always begin by telling me they were pretty.

We might not know a lot about the female character who took on the mantle of Thor in Thor # 1, out on Wednesday (read our review here).

Not exact matches

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

Even though only about 9 % of female characters have names in the text, there are more than one hundred «eleventy» (111) women's names that are preserved.

My biggest concern about the movie is that, while its female characters are strong and complex, the men are largely portrayed as helpless oafs, breaking out into silly fights at every opportunity and generally complicating matters with their stupidity.

Another actress, Jessica Chastain, complained to Radio Times about the film industry's propensity to cast female action heroes not for their characters, but for their bodies.

The film must contain more than one female character; these female characters must have a conversation with one another; and that conversation must be about something other than a man.

Stories about female gamers getting hit on; «No Gurlz Allowed» ways of «discouraging» them where the other players would help the DM pull a «run - on - rails» gang - rape scenario on the girl gamer's characters that she was powerless to get out of or stop.

We know that only about 30.9 percent of named or speaking characters we see on screen are female and even fewer will be lead characters.

The common suggestion that most Ukraine females think about is that you will match off the web page, match for a few several weeks at least through e-mail and characters, then transfer on to cellphone calls, check out with each other at least once for several times to per weeks time, and then lastly end in wedding.

Director Tom Dey's film is yet another by - the - numbers romantic comedy where the same tired escapades ensue, including one character's climactic discovery of the other's secret (in this case, when Tripp finds out about Paula's career as a female Hitch), and their eventual reunion at the end.

She's joined by the female cast members who also talk about their characters.

Her speeches about sisterhood and self - esteem, though, are at odds with the movie's habit of humiliating female characters — a couple of campus mean girls, and particularly the frosty blonde siren (Julie Bowen) who intends to marry Deanna's ex.

This association of the feminine with weakness or vulnerability may be objectionable in a cultural climate where criticasters monotonously beat the drum for the Strong Female Character, but Denis is an artist, not a sloganeer, and as such she has always been gifted with the only kind of strength that matters — the guts to speak hard home truths and not give a fuck about how they might be received.

I am frustrated by the lack of modern - or future - set films without strong female characters, but I'm aware that, historically speaking, women haven't been given much training in warfare or an equal share of about anything.

Everyone is raving about Black Panther «s cast of bad - ass female characters.

In an interview with BBC's The One Show, Oscar winner and new raider of tombs Alicia Vikander talked about how excited she was to be playing a badass female character and how exciting it is «To see female characters in these kinds of films... It's definitely a big change happening.»

As we all know, Marvel has had quite a flogging in the press about its treatment of its female characters: Not only is there no stand - alone female superhero film yet, but our daughters also have no female superhero action figures.

Speaking in an interview about playing a tough female character like Gisele, Gadot said:

There's nothing particularly new about the idea of a quirky and exciting female character who only exists to facilitate the aspirations of men, but Rabin identified a particular trend in American cinema over the last decade that framed itself as independent and an alternative to Hollywood.

Harding's and Bloom's lives make for unquestionably great parts, but how they fare in being translated to characters is a thornier question, one that could fuel the ongoing debate about what we want in a good female character.

It also casts characters directly from the Big Book Of Clichés: the sergeant on the verge of retirement (Aaron Eckhart), the guy about to get married (Ne - Yo), the tough - as - any - man female soldier (Michelle Rodriguez), the guy with a pregnant wife, the guy who may go crazy at any moment... and so on.

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The director of The Queen and Dangerous Liaisons tells Jason Solomons why he chose to make a movie about a courtesan in belle époque Paris, the debt he owes to his writers and why he's drawn to strong female characters

What's even more uncanny, both films were about male stubbornness and inability to compromise, with the seemingly weaker female characters as the carriers of compassion and grace.

The actress also noted that it was important for her to meet with the director so that they can talk about her execution of Michelle, as she feels how a female character is presented in a horror film is important.

«Something we talked about a lot were these»80s movies where there were these female characters, like in Something Wild, the Melanie Griffith character,» Gerwig explains.

Despite its ostensible curiosity about the vagaries of human psychology, The Female Brain is never able to make these two characters or their relationship feel particularly believable.

His female counterpart is even better, and while it's always nice to see Ricci go topless for a role, the underrated actress actually makes you care about her character; much in the same way that Terrence Howard did with his pimp in «Hustle & Flow.»

Other Notable Releases: The Coens» «Inside Llewyn Davis» has continued to grow on me the more I think about it, and Oscar Isaac is fantastic, but the film is so egregiously shitty to its female characters who are either harpies, bitches, hags, or all three that I can't in good conscience put it on my Top 10.

Linkle has been a divisive character for Nintendo fans, with many on the fence about how they feel about the unveiling of a female Link.

We're all familiar with The Bechdel Test, the measure of whether a movie has at least two female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.

For all the discussion about gender, the conflict is not unique to the female characters.

So no doubt he'll have plenty to say about the reaction to Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, which has attracted critical ire at the Venice Film Festival (and a few press - screening boos) for two main reasons: one, it's over-long and unfocused, and two, it's aggressively, indeed lip - smackingly objectifying of its female characters.

Lynch talked about his excitement to make a film starring a badass woman and «strong female character» which he said shouldn't even be a term any more as a female ought just to be allowed to be a «strong character.»

AVC: So, you were talking about how you didn't want Jane Levy's reactions to be too stereotypically female, and you also mentioned that she gets pushed to the point where she kicks the shit out of Stephen Lang's character.

Definitively about female relationships, the story is almost entirely devoid of male characters, with the exception of the predatory dance company director.

It is long overdue, and while Marvel has given us some memorable female characters along the way — notably Peggy Carter and Black Widow, mostly thanks to Joss Whedon — it's about time the studio dove headfirst in an honest - to - goodness female - led superhero movie.

From Facebook beauty - contests for the character she plays to big New Yorker profiles to a hilarious case of mistaken Twitter identity, we've been talking a lot about Mass Effect 3's female lead Jennifer Hale lately.

And that is especially the case given the demand that female characters — and actual human women — be constantly likable has a way of limiting the stories we can tell about fictional women, and imposing restrictions on the opportunities and chances granted women in the real world.

Deadpool 2 is the sort of movie where the heroes kill a guy — after spending the last act of the film saving that guy so one of the characters will learn a moral lesson — all in the hopes of scoring a quick laugh derived from the joys of knocking off religious zealots, while also using time travel during the mid-credits scene to erase a death that took place earlier in the film so as to avoid outraged howls from Internet folks about the wickedness of «fridging» tertiary female characters.

It's heartening to see a female character in the Larry David spot on a Curb Your Enthusiasm - style show, but that's about where the novelty of I'm Sorry's approach to the format ends.

Giving female characters equal footing in one of the most sprawling franchises in recent memory isn't just about better, more inclusive storytelling.