Sentences with phrase «as cardboard cutouts»

The core cast begin as cardboard cutouts with stereotypical roles, again lulling us into thinking we're retreading familiar ground, but as each new insane twist is dealt, new layers are revealed about each character.

Snow is a central character but he's presented as a cardboard cutout evil overlord.

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He's got his NHRA auto - racing suit, in T - Mobile magenta; a cardboard cutout of Carly Foulkes, the ex-pitchwoman colloquially known as the «T - Mobile girl»; pictures of his two daughters; and cookbooks for his slow - cooking show, a surprise Facebook hit.

16 - month Ethan Jennings grabs a cardboard cutout of the face of Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as his father Florida delegate Bernard Jennings holds him.

Look closely and you'll see shadows behind various objects in the environments, as if they are cardboard cutouts.

Today Levine is a novelist and screenwriter in Los Angeles, with a life - sized cardboard cutout of Paterno gazing over his shoulder as he types.

She's all pluck and stilettos, and when the day is done, she returns to her typical big Italian family — who might as well be cardboard cutouts eating Ragu out of the jar.

Many thrillers use their characters as nothing more than cardboard cutouts to be put through the motions of the plot, so much so that by the time the plot boils over we don't care, because we don't know who the characters are or why they're doing what they're doing.

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«And I do know that whether we're attached or not, that Marvel plans on working towards that ending and fully realizing Mordo as more than just a cardboard cutout villain, but actually taking him to kind of Loki levels of awesomeness.

With the guidance of professional Red Bull GRC Supercar Driver, Mitchell deJong, Darryl becomes his student as he goes through a series of driving challenges including a course where he has to avoid hitting cardboard cutouts of esports commentator Jeremy «Vicious» Lopez and rival and fellow Red Bull athlete Daigo Umehara.

Instead of talking to the voice actors behind the dogs with a cardboard cutout of the poster behind them, Wes Anderson had Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Liev Schriber, F. Murray Abraham, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Bob Balaban, and Tilda Swinton interviewed about the movie, and then created animation as if their canine characters were doing the Isle of Dogs cast interviews themselves.

The film tries to give them identifying traits, such as their personal weapon or fighting style, or the fact that Bors has a family or that Tristan takes an orphan under his wing, but in the end, these characters are simply cardboard cutouts who are being sent into battle.

A protester holds a European Union flag next to cardboard cutouts depicting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as Zuckerberg and leaders of the European Parliament prepare to meet in Brussels.

It was as basic as the genre could come, with simple turn - based combat, and a story that more served the function of transporting you around towards fantastical places rather than propelling you into conflict with the cardboard - cutout villain, or exploring any social or philosophical themes.

As is typical with Tom Clancy games, the story in Blacklist is thrilling and well - developed, featuring a cast of characters that are more than stereotypical cardboard cutouts.

Everyone else does a great job as well, helping to raise their characters above the usual cardboard cutouts found in shooters.

It gives the impression of the game world being more of a cardboard cutout that serves as a backdrop for the action, rather than being a vital aspect of it as you'd expect in the genre.

I think people need to calm down with the fanboy wars and be glad this game has day / night cycles as well as weather and no PS2 era cardboard cutout crowds or environments that look like 3D extrapolated Google Maps.

Instead, the wall text described it as «a dreamlike procession of black puppets, made from cardboard paper cutouts... a ghostly reminder of the violence of a land plagued by oppositions.»

Some are made of cardboard and wood, adorned with found objects and commercial imagery, such as a Twinkie box cutout or a Coca - Cola logo.

Beginning with the series Trackers (2005), eighty - five photographs of Bedouin - descended Palestinians who have served or still serve as volunteers in the Israeli Army, the show concludes with the haunting series Death (2011 - 12), sixty - eight photographs of posters, billboards, and cardboard cutouts of Palestinian martyrs, depicted with weapons in hand, which are displayed in people's homes or on the streets to preserve their memory.

Cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stand outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington as he testified before a Senate panel last week.

She dug up old photographs and spoke to family members to develop a narrative for the project, which in some images finds her dressing up as her grandfather and posing in front of cardboard cutouts.

The show offers the chance to see pieces by less familiar artists as well as early or underknown works by key figures, such as Mike Kelley's first installation, Untitled (from The Little Girl's Room), 1980, consisting of objects and images obliquely suggesting a young girl's bedroom, and Eleanor Antin's cardboard airplane with cutout figures that served as the set for her feature - length video The Nurse and the Hijackers (1977).