Sentences with phrase «as folk heroes»

From Robin Hood to Jesse James, we've always had a soft spot for outlaws, idealizing them as folk heroes and romanticizing them as rebels.

When he takes to the streets dispensing vigilante justice, only once does the film acknowledge the uneasiness of a hooded white man killing predominantly Latino and black gangbangers and being held up as a folk hero.

Not exact matches

Elected as a PC MLA in 2008 and ejected in 2010, Dr. Sherman immediately enjoyed folk hero status as an Independent MLA for criticizing the PC Government's record on health care.

He finished with 16 points on 5 - of - 8 shooting from the field, forever establishing himself as a national championship folk hero.

The people of the area are still annoyed at Creek and Long — «the Gestapo,» as one housewife calls them — and John Arambel has become a local folk hero.

Maybe we should apply right wing legal hero Scalia's «originalism» legal reasoning consistently and determine that the Second Amendment permits folks to have as many single shot muskets as they wish.

Mr. Donovan was Mr. Molinari's point man when the borough president was negotiating the closure of the city's garbage dump, known as the Fresh Kills Land Fill, an effort that would make Rudolph Giuliani, the Republican mayor, a folk hero of sorts in the borough.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has become a Turkish folk hero this week, gaining more than 200,000 new Twitter followers as Turks showered him with praise for busting a reviled businessman from back home.

The Manhattan prosecutor has become a Turkish folk hero this week, gaining more than 200,000 new Twitter followers as Turks showered him with praise for busting a reviled businessman from back home.

Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computers who died this week, had a reputation as a passionate business leader and a modern folk hero.

Even though we didn't list it as a Spring Wardrobe Hero, we're (obviously) big fans of this gem of clothing piece, so folks, here's one for the denim skirt!

As with John Wayne's Ethan Edwards (Travis's spiritual forefather), his thwarted patriarchal possessiveness is not tempered by anything like genuine concern, yet it is enough... to make him a peculiarly American folk hero.

Aviators as barnstormers quickly became an endearing folk hero; and also businessman carrying mail and passengers.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople follows a son and his foster father on the run as fugitives and folk heroes

In a joint interview with Cooper, the director of «Crazy Heart» and «Out of the Furnace,» the two discussed the challenges of portraying a folk - hero criminal who has, as Cooper said, «left a real emotional scar on the city of Boston.»

As the movie ends, Riddick is at a crossroads, his choice to become a beefstick (which would be a shame) or a folk hero (which is what he was at the end of the last film).

Ridley Scott's film, therefore, has a difficult challenge of trying to portray Lucas as an ambitious, enviable folk hero even while occasionally showing just what kind of abominable destruction he conveyed to everyone around him.

The latter is an origin story for the eponymous folk hero that is currently in production for a Spring 2018 theatrical release date, with Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Oscar - winner Jamie Foxx starring as a young Robin Hood and Little John, respectively.

Depp gives a layered performance as a confident folk hero who worries about what people think.

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.

In film Hagner appeared as the female lead in the indie film Folk Hero & Funny Guy, with Alex Karpofsky and Wyatt Russell.

Robert Culp co-stars as a newspaperman who sees a big story in Wilma — the dispossessed victim turned folk hero outlaw — and ends up helping her mission of revenge.

First, he takes a job as an entertainer at an old folks» home, where he happens to meet his childhood hero Rance Holloway (Alan Arkin), the old - school magician whose magic set first set Burt on his path.

This version of «the Hood» by Gladiator (2000) and Body of Lies (2008) director Ridley Scott is being touted as truth behind the famous medieval folk hero.

Folk Hero & Funny Guy producer Ryland Aldrich met filmmaker Jeff Grace when his wife worked as a publicist on an earlier project he produced, It's A Disaster, in 2012.

While Clarke's character treats the married couple who are his tenants (Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan) as if they are indentured servants, his reprehensible Klansman Pappy (Jonathan Banks) thinks nothing of inflicting pain upon their returning World War II hero son (Jason Mitchell) who refuses to kowtow to white folks.

Another movie about comedy, Folk Hero & Funny Guy (Grade: B), bravely casts a non-comic as a stand - up comedian, something that would not have been so unusual 10 or 20 years ago but now feels downright experimental in the face of all the stand - up and sketch - comedy people available for film work.

The «folk hero» of the movie's title is played by Wyatt Russell, a successful singer - songwriter who takes his buddy the comedian on a small tour as an opening act.

Information and questions of the Devnarayan Ki Phad, cloth paintings which depict the legend of Devnarayan, a medieval hero venerated as a folk - deity and worshipped as an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu.

As the Dark Horse folks explains, Annikin Starkiller is the hero... Luke Skywalker is a wizened Jedi general... Han Solo is a big green alien... and the Sith... Well, the Sith are still the bad guys.

Increasingly disillusioned with American politics and the government's abandonment of its poorest citizens, Guthrie was compelled to speak out, tirelessly crisscrossing the nation to entertain and advocate for the nation's poorest people with his songs, eventually earning himself a permanent place as one of America's great folk heroes.

«As a decorated Viet - Nam vet and now an old Scoutmaster, I use insect characters to tell stories about universal truth, loyalty and honor, even if the heroes and villains are very small folk.»

He began to be portrayed as a kind of folk hero, though he had helped build and protect a growing industry of puppy mills.

Join us as we share the tales of some of our favorite folk heroes in the video - game - loving community...

But Jazzuo is certainly a folk hero to a lot of people in the indie game community and there's a YouTube video of someone beating Sexy Hiking which has over 128,000 views as I'm writing this.

They even have special services for pros, like unstretched rolled canvases, for folks who like / know how to stretch their own... and they'll ship orders to your clients without any branding, so it arrives as a finished piece, but you look like the hero (and maybe you've even been able to charge a hair more on the finishing, than it cost you — woot!).

Kent thinks of himself as a folk artist, a regionalist naively painting «Monuments to American Cultural Heroes».

Described by Tom Wolfe as «the folk heroes of every social climber who ever hit New York» — Robert was a high school drop - out from the Bronx — the Sculls shrewdly recognized that establishing themselves as influential art collectors offered access to the upper echelons of Manhattan society in a way that nouveau riche «taxi tycoon» did not.

The YBAs projected this charade onto a mass - media platform, turning artists into folk heroes, and attracting bigger, younger audiences to galleries such as Tate Modern.

From the title, we assume it to be that of folk hero, John Henry, who as a 19th century working - class figure, beat the machine that was about to take over his job, leading to his death.

His signature sculptural aesthetic reflects a sophisticated grasp of folk art and often depicts a cast of characters including mythological beings, heroes, and ordinary people, as a way to explore the many complex dimensions of being human (Harithas, 1999).

For the tabloid press, Martin became a folk hero, and the Law Commission's paper, which simply followed up an earlier analysis of illegality in the context of contract and trusts, became identified as a Trojan horse for politically correct and human rights inspired reform inimical to the silent majority of law - abiding people.

There are factions in Toronto and elsewhere that view Khadr as something of a folk - hero and lobby for his return.

Hutchins» status as a cyber folk hero had much of the security community rushing to his defense as reports emerged that he was intercepted on his way home to London.

Of course, if you walked up to any of these folks and called them a «role model» or «community hero,» as we've done with our Good Neighbor winners, they'd undoubtedly shrug off the label.