Sentences with phrase «about sympathetic characters»

But my goal wasn't to write about sympathetic characters.

Not exact matches

In an interview with Fortune, Chapman, who received fellow animators» support after going public about the ordeal, recalled her struggle «being the only woman in the room trying to explain my characters» point of view of the mother and daughter and why they're both sympathetic and they're both not sympathetic.

It's a statement about the interplay between our own emotional stability and how social media can set it reeling, and Plaza's performance anchors the whole thing, making Ingrid a sympathetic character without glossing over her very real issues.

«This is a serious book about a pressing issue, but Tough manages to make it an easy read with a cast of sympathetic characters... We don't know how this story will end.

Macdonald, playing an outsider with wisdom, is by far the most sympathetic character; the movie has plenty to say about the parenting traditions of the wealthy, not much of it favorable.

While Elephant, on one hand, focused on the time and space factors that converge unrelated people to those tragic incidents, Uwe Boll is more concerned about the characters - and this is a sympathetic and surprisingly moving drama that relies on decent performances.

Even films about the supernatural need sympathetic characters.

Unusually for a drama about suffocating social and emotional repression, Disobedience lavishes attention on religious concerns; it paints Dovid as a largely sympathetic character, a man in a spiritual crisis.

It's not about what happens but how the characters react to what happens, and as a result, they are not simplified caricatures but understandable, sympathetic people.

For one, Shakespeare and the Cecils have to be transformed into ogres to make de Vere, about whose character they know approximately nothing, sympathetic.

What separates «Ex Machina» from all those other movies about the potential dangers of sentient A.I., however, is the addition of Gleeson's character to the equation, because it uses Caleb's humanity / moral compass against the audience to make you sympathetic towards Ava even though virtually every film about robots has taught us not to trust them.

Being sympathetic and likable were the main ingredients that made me care about whether the character lived or died.

Sitting on the sidelines: Paul Newman's 1968 film about a small - town schoolteacher's sexual awakening dared to make its lesbian character sympathetic

For some reason, Deadpool, who has never really cared about anybody but his girlfriend (Morena Baccarin), takes a sympathetic interest in the young man, despite the kid's being a pretty nasty character.

There's nothing funny at all about this scene — it's just sad, sick, and revolting in a way that dehumanizes the characters and their situations to the point where we can't find them amusing, or even the least bit sympathetic.

But I think what is so marvelous about Metcalf's performance is how she makes a complex and potentially confusing character into one that is, by the end, deeply sympathetic.

Writer - director Oliver lets sentimentality graze the film graze once — and it's a film about sympathetic mental patients reintegrating so it's amazing he was able to get away with a sidewalk picnic without sentimentality — but the realities of the characters quickly reign in any loose tender particles.

His energy, particularly in scenes where he does some fast talking in the courtroom, sells the rather larger - than - life character, and the internal struggles he possesses about what he is doing makes him sympathetic enough to know he isn't just a smart - ass out to make a mockery of the legal system for self - aggrandizement.

But by that point, the film has earned its laughs by making the audience care about characters who begin the film as broad comic types, but end it as sympathetic, fully formed, multidimensional human beings.

Wisely, it places as much focus on a smart gender twist and sympathetic concerns about how the characters will progress.

There is not a sympathetic character in Landline, a comic drama about the various dysfunctions of a dysfunctional family.

Then there's the scene where a sympathetic character tells Eddie that if he cares about whatsherface, he'll leave her alone — then immediately we cut to him doing the opposite.

This talk about whether characters need to be «sympathetic» comes up in writing classes all the time.

With complex, sympathetic characters and vibrant, lyrical prose, Park reminds readers about loyalty, sacrifice, friendship, family and, above all, the enduring power of first love.

Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

About writing software, and creating sympathetic characters, and the best shortstops crime novelists of all time.

Heck, even the main character from Detention was sympathetic enough for me to care about her and make me want to help her overcome her troubles.

Basics include sympathetic characters, a world you really care about, an overwhelming instigator, and meaningful conflict, but it's also about taking risks with the plot.

But it is precisely in the context of a gutted zombie world that a game about human emotions, sympathetic characters, and hard choices resonates so powerfully.

What's interesting about Shovel Knight's story is that, simple as it is, the game finds time to provide some quiet story moments to make Shovel Knight a more sympathetic character than most of his 8 - bit kin.

Journalists clearly are not doing their jobs when it comes to checking the basic veracity of the accusation, but now a bigger question needs to be asked: How worried were the «IPCC affiliated or sympathetic scientists» about the soundness of their science assessments, if some in their midst felt a need to use baseless character assassination in order to persuade their fellow scientists to ignore material from scientist critics?