Sentences with phrase «about white characters»

Not exact matches

If you're looking for more reading material about the Trump White House and its rotating cast of characters, here's a quick guide to some books already published and yet to come in 2018 — some of which might seem like beach or airport reads until you remember the reports are rooted in real life.

What it's about: Another Disney hit, «Bambi» uses an all - animal cast of characters in a story about a white - tailed deer, his animals friends, and a haunting death in the family.

McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson are so good in Three Billboards that I think a lot of voters have totally forgotten the less successful aspects of the movie: How every white character is immensely colorful but every black one is a cipher, that whole thing about Woody Harrelson's big dick (stop!

If you wish to put a white hat on him (or a halo), and spin things and fantasize about this character's loveliness to make yourself feel good, go ahead - I think it's silly and dishonest.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

Remember how I told you about his character and convictions, his decency and his grace, the traits that we've seen every day that he's served our country in the White House?

But then, the New York Post comes along and validates and reports a position I have taken from DAY ONE — interracial dating isn't about exclusion, but inclusion; and choose character above color — and now it seems previous outlets who viewed me as hell's handmaiden for white supremacy are beginning to soften their position.

«Coco,» which has the twists and turns of the kind of black - and - white melodramas Ernesto starred in, is in some respects as old - fashioned a story as they come about the close bonds of family; the many zestily - drawn characters speak entertainingly to the push and pull of tradition within that bubble and across generations.

Their presence and attitude serve as the catalyst for the mainly white characters to change their own attitude about the native people of this country.

Now that he's made films about all - white characters, now he can make an all - black and Arab story.»

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.

Princess Cyd is his most accomplished film yet, about a young woman named Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) who finds herself attracted to Katie (Malic White), a barista, while visiting her Aunt Miranda (Rebecca Spence, playing a character modeled on the author Marilynne Robinson) in Chicago.

Wearing spiky white hair and borrowing what seem to be rejected one - liners from Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze «Batman» character, Short has one of those Robin Williams - in - «Toys» performances that makes you forget what you liked about the actor.

Morton talks about why they went with black and white (essentially, the Vita screen is awesome and really makes it pop), briefly looks at how the touch screen factors into gameplay, and discusses how the two characters operate in terms of the game's puzzles.

But the film at times has trouble reconciling its desire to tell a story about the long - lasting effects of Native American displacement with the reality that most of the story revolves around the white characters.

There are also several featurettes including a tour of the massive sets, a look at the story as a whole and how it compares to other versions, a brief piece about the fairy tale aspects that were brought in from different sources, and character features on Snow White, the Huntsman, the Evil Queen and the Dwarves.

Director Roland Emmerich summed up this mentality in response to criticism over his period drama, Stonewall, in which he created a fictional white, male, cisgender, «straight - acting» character to lead a true story about an act of defiance by some of the most marginalized people in the LGBT community.

I don't wan na hear shit about making the Asian martial arts characters white cuz otherwise it'd be problematic.»

While I came into this movie excited about every inch of it, M'Baku a.k.a Man - Ape in the comics has had a very messy and problematic history being written as the scary, angry, dark - skinned black man who wants Wakanda to be a primitive society that includes human sacrifice, because... this character was created by white authors in the late 1960s, and this was their idea of nuance.

The Help, written and directed by Tate Taylor from the novel by Kathryn Stockett, belongs to the Driving Miss Daisy tradition of feel - good fables about black - white relations in America, movies in which institutional racism takes a backseat to the personal enlightenment of one white character.

James White (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity and drug use) Christopher Abbott handles the title role in this character study, set in New York City, about a self - destructive slacker, still living at home, forced to mature when his mom (Cynthia Nixon) becomes seriously ill.

Though to be fair, Sydney Pollack's «Out of Africa» (left) does all it can to avoid making any statement about the suffering of Africans under colonialism, placing focus instead on its white characters, played by Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, a pair of European settlers in Kenya.

You may recall this was a prequel to Snow White and the Huntsman so we'll learn about Hemsworth's character history however, the official synopsis reveals this is actually only part prequel, mostly sequel.

Eckhart's a reliably solid, versatile talent, so without knowing much about his White House Down character, I can only assume he's a good pick for this part as well.

There's nothing new about Frances Ha; the plot's been done, the main character is a familiar type, and even Baumbach's use of black - and - white just makes Gerwig's New York look like a vintage Woody Allen film.

«What the movie is about is not funny,» Peele insisted back in November about his biting commentary on racism, white privilege and horror movies» tendency to kill off their black supporting characters first.

Do look out for their final scene together — it's an absolute gem, so good, in fact, that I completely forgot to worry about the endless controversy over white actors playing Asian characters.

Not only do these African - American - voiced characters played by a white actor (Tom Kenny) speak street jive, but they boast about being unable to read and one sports a gold tooth.

The group makes it over the wall, but not before two of the series» prominent characters of color — played by Mekhi Phifer and Maggie Q, who are each given virtually no dialogue as a parting gift — are gunned down, likely to make room for the new influx of white actors we're about to meet (Daniel Dae Kim shows up for a second too, another minority bit - part designed to create a false sense of diversity).

Though it boasts a strong performance from the always reliable Tom Hanks and good supporting turns by Alexander Black and Sarita Choudhury, the movie is a somewhat bland and uneven character study about a middle - aged white guy getting his groove back in the Middle East.

But what is certain about Three Billboards is that if this many people saw Dixon's arc as redemptive — and if we take the most charitable view, that it wasn't intended to trivialize the experiences of abused and tortured black characters in order to humanize a white character — then the problem is in the film itself, which allowed room for a reading that was counter to its intentions.

Special Features In Walt's Words: «Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs» - Hear Walt himself talk about Snow White Iconography - Explore how this film influences pop culture, art and fashion Disney / Animation: Designing Disney's First Princess - Modern - day Disney artists discuss the design of Snow White and how it influenced the look of some of your favorite Disney characters The Fairest Facts Of Them All - Disney channel star Sofia Carson reveals seven intriguing facts about Snow White And Much More!

It will be about affluent types with predominantly (if not entirely) white major characters.

As with Bourne, car chases and hand - to - hand fights are heavily edited, and quite exciting visually, though there is a curious lack of white - knuckle tension that should have resulted from the scenes had the script by first - time feature film scribe David Guggenheim spent more time with the characters to get us to care about their situations before throwing them on the run.

And honestly, I think giving established white characters like Spider - man to POC's, isn't really the way to go about it.

Meanwhile, Sebastian Stan aka The Winter Soldier, aka The White Wolf got to talk a little about his character as seen in Infinity War.

Movies and TV are full of people whose problems aren't really problems, though few are as maddeningly obtuse about it as the title character of James White.

Shot in black and white, with a running time of just under seven hours (it's designed to be shown with two short intermissions), it boasts a decrepit, squalid rural setting enveloped in constant rain and mud and a cast of about a dozen greedy, small - minded characters, none of whom has any remotely redeeming qualities.

You've already had a little barbed critical comment about the portrayal and the broken English spoken by the Hong Chau character, Matt Damon's Vietnamese love interest — is this really a «white saviour» film, as the detractors are trying to paint it?

Undeniably fine on its own terms, 2013's gristly black - and - white character study, Nebraska, looked about as artisanal a product as you could still hope to get financed by a major studio.

I interviewed Dear White People creator Justin Simien about an ensemble scene from his satirical series with influences as wide - ranging as Robert Altman and Bayard Rustin; Desta spoke with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller - Bridge about creating that show's funny, twisted, sexually adventurous title character; and Bradley heard from The Handmaid's Tale's Reed Morano and Alexis Bledel about shooting a blood - curdling moment in that dystopian series.

However, it quickly becomes clear that White wants to distance his movie from any such accusation, with one of the film's younger, more idealistic characters eventually chiding Brad for whining about his rather generous lot in life.

I highly recommend going through previous nominees for Best Limited Film for there you'll not only find more transgressive films about the white LGBT experience (Hedwig and the Angry Inch & Mysterious Skin, Velvet Goldmine & Beautiful Thing, Tomboy & Concussion) but especially films about the very type of characters I highlighted this past month.

Hibernation - find out about different animal that hibernate over Winter Literacy resources Snowflake alphabet Book review Worksheets - various worksheets about the story, Winter and the characters Word searches Writing pages - various pages to photocopy for the children to write and colour in the borders Writing sheets Hibernation worksheets Worksheets - Signs of Autumn, Winter and Spring worksheets Acrostic poem Art and crafts Animal paw prints - use the cards to copy the paw prints in the sand tray or in the snow Tracing picture Colouring worksheets Winter scene worksheet Animal puppets to make Animal masks - black and white masks of the different animals in the story Games Bingo - a colourful picture bingo game Snowman building game - throw the die and collect the different parts of your snowman Hibernation game - throw a die and turn over a card to see how many hedgehogs are hibernating under the pile of leaves Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.

The pack includes: Story Power point - a power point presentation of the sequencing pictures for children to retell the story Interactive Power point - a power point about the story with questions Display banners Display border A4 Book information poster Sequencing pictures Picture flash cards Large alphabet - large alphabet letters in lower and upper case each night sky pictures and a flying owl Large owl pictures Constellation posters A4 word card Number line - an owl number line to 50 Alphabet line - an alphabet line on bright stars Speech bubble worksheets Writing sheets Story word cards Writing worksheets Story sack tags Question cards Owl writing sheets Counting cards Colouring pictures Owl masks Owl finger puppets Make a moving owl - cut out the owl pieces and attach using split pins Word searches A collection of worksheets - these could be made into a workbook using the book cover or used individually: · Favourite part of the story · Write a book review · Speech bubble worksheet · Write about what you are afraid of · Who said what - draw each character next to the speech bubbles · Two question worksheets · Cut and sequence the story · Write sentences about the different pictures Nocturnal animals A photo pack of different nocturnal animals Masks in colour and black and white of nocturnal animals A Powerpoint about nocturnal animals A wordsearch Light and Dark A colourful banner Question cards about day and night and light and dark A Powerpoint about light and dark Word cards A themed bingo game A wordsearch Photos of different sources of light Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.

Nicholas Prosper, an eighth - grader, said that when he recited the line, «Not bad for a white girl» about the main character's dance moves, he learned about reverse racism.

Larrick's 1965 landmark article, «The All - White World of Children's Books» (reprinted in Muse, 1997) pointed out that minority children had few opportunities to read about characters like themselves or see themselves in these books.

I've mentioned before that we should avoid assumptions about our characters, so I waited until I heard a voice that resonated and knew my paranormal character for this book wouldn't be white skinned.

Erdrich's profound intimacy with her characters electrifies this stunning and devastating tale of hate crimes and vengeance, her latest immersion in the Ojibwe and white community she has been writing about for more than two decades.

Two characters, a white woman and a black man — much like the authors — have an extended conversation through poetry about everyday things from their childhoods.