Sentences with phrase «as the script allows»

The actors give as much as the script allows, with Charlize Theron (Young Adult) as crafty Meredith Vickers, Michael Fassbender (Shame) as sinister David, and Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as the daydreaming scientist definitely help flesh out characters at a time when others are left to flap about with little to do.

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But as with Hillcoat's subsequent film The Road, neither the script nor the direction allow a genuine sense of horror to build, and it becomes more about the journey itself than the meaning behind it.

Occasionally he'd be allowed to direct as well as write his own silent vehicles (Rich Men's Sons [1926], Fatal Warning [1928]-RRB-; Graves also contributed the script for one of his Capra films, Flight (1928).

'' Pompeii» is the story of a volcano that destroyed a city as well as the Nevado del Ruiz that destroyed Armero, who came as the director of Resident Evil, make a romance in the midst of a disaster, sure beats true love all natural disasters, but the script nor allowed, what no?

Cox is given a script that never seems to allow her do that, always bringing up the same issues (her unstable relationship with Grayson, her need for constant attention from her son), as though she is stuck in a rut.

The focus on epic battles involving arrows, swordplay and midair dogfights as well as scores of characters, allows little time for character or script development.

Carrell and Fey have terrific chemistry and the script allows us to see their intelligence, wit and charm develop as they are pushed further and further onto kinds of preposterous situations that a good screwball comedy demands.

So far, the «real» aspect of the movie only extends to the way it will be filmed, which is probably why the script still contains such far - fetched elements as enough free WiFi access to allow the reporter to upload her videos with relative ease.

As Bana's shrink presses Redgrave's furtive, fretful Rose for details about a life glimpsed in increasingly lurid fragments, you're tempted to wish all involved had abandoned the script and allowed a venerated performer to reflect on the many and happier acting opportunities that surely constitute her memories, and ours.

Something more interesting is promised when Daniel Wu is revealed as the male lead, suggesting a possible interracial romance with one of Hollywood's most neglected ethnic groups, but the script doesn't allow for any real development besides a rushed camaraderie.

As was the case with «Shaun of the Dead,» a smart script and strong characterizations allow the leads to deftly balance comedy and drama.

In short, he's only as good as the scripts he directs allow and rarely more.

Her Tony - winning turn as Nora in last season's «A Doll's House, Part 2» had her mining the hidden humor of Lucas Hnath's rat - a-tat script, one monologue at a time; Dr. Jenna James of «Getting On» (a series that earned Metcalf her 10th Emmy nomination, following a slew of guest actress appearances and three wins for «Roseanne») allowed her to warm audiences to a flawed hero up to her eyeballs in stool samples and naked narcissism; and now Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» gives her a role in Marion McPherson that many hail as a shoe - in for Oscar night.

As they bumble around the situation, Oshima's script (with Tsutomu Tamura, Mamoru Sasaki, and Michinori Fukao) becomes slapstick satire, lampooning not just the inane rules that allow the state to execute somebody, but ethnic stereotypes and organized religion in general.

The character may be more plot device than person but Mirren's quietly simmering intensity doesn't allow her to be quite as dispensable as the script would like her to be.

Hader's character is more allowed to embrace comedy (the subject material is so dark and bleak that the script does need the actors to tell jokes just for the audience's survival), his character using dry sarcasm as a shield against the gritty reality of life.

The script also allows for some great training and planning sequences as the seven work to prepare the townspeople for the upcoming attack.

The script never convincingly squares this film's vision of Cap as a guy who's willing to go it alone against government forces (led by William Hurt's Thaddeus «Thunderbolt» Ross) who want to regulate super-heroic interventions with the Captain America of «The Winter Soldier,» who decided he'd rather go against his own government than allow one of its highest ranking military officials to order extrajudicial assassinations.

Perhaps working with on a script written by another writer, or hiring a co-writer, will allow Peddle to unlock his potential as a director.

Reframing Frances Ha as a Greta Gerwig film allows us to flip this script and begin to think about how her sensibility, biography, and tangible screen presence work in a way that is undoubtedly amplified and complicated by Baumbach's contributions, but ultimately can be understood on their own terms.

Adapted from the memoir of the same name by the real Jordan Belfort, the script by Boardwalk Empire creator Terrence Winter uses voice - over narration as a framing device (like Goodfellas) in order to allow Belfort's story to unfold «in his own language,» so to speak.

As fine a film as this is, one can only wonder how great Spartacus could have been had director Stanley Kubrick (2001, A Clockwork Orange), who was brought in late due to differences between star Kirk Douglas (Paths of Glory, Oscar) and the original director Anthony Mann, been allowed to alter the script, perhaps toning down the rather high amounts of moralization, potentially diffusing the film's only weaknesAs fine a film as this is, one can only wonder how great Spartacus could have been had director Stanley Kubrick (2001, A Clockwork Orange), who was brought in late due to differences between star Kirk Douglas (Paths of Glory, Oscar) and the original director Anthony Mann, been allowed to alter the script, perhaps toning down the rather high amounts of moralization, potentially diffusing the film's only weaknesas this is, one can only wonder how great Spartacus could have been had director Stanley Kubrick (2001, A Clockwork Orange), who was brought in late due to differences between star Kirk Douglas (Paths of Glory, Oscar) and the original director Anthony Mann, been allowed to alter the script, perhaps toning down the rather high amounts of moralization, potentially diffusing the film's only weakness.

First, the script tames some of the more egregious proclivities of late, telling a story free from the buckets of irony and sarcasm that are usually employed as a form of distancing, allowing a modern audience to enjoy such an overt tale confident that they

First, the script tames some of the more egregious proclivities of late, telling a story free from the buckets of irony and sarcasm that are usually employed as a form of distancing, allowing a modern audience to enjoy such an overt tale confident that they know what kind of story this is.

Melfi sprinkles a few other memorable lines in St. Vincent's opening half, but as a mid-plot twist turns the film irrevocably toward the saccharine, the script's unpolished aspects become visible: the way that the bookie (Terrence Howard) to whom Vincent owes money all but disappears halfway through; the manner in which Vincent's pregnant Russian prostitute girlfriend (Naomi Watts) exists largely to allow for stereotypical jokes founded on her accent and coarse language.

The songs were mostly composed after the basic story had been conceived, but prior to Chazelle's finished script, allowing the writer - director to build up the scenes in plotting and emotional relevancy, while Hurwitz would add additional scoring, with later lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, as the scenes were being put together during the production.

It's a good thing that the likes of Washington, Hawke and Pratt have a baseline level of engagement, as the script rarely allows them to stretch their talent beyond the familiar.

Directed by Derek Cianfrance, who also co-wrote the script, the film allows its characters to develop as authentic people by providing foundations upon which the actors can build highly convincing emotions.

Banking on a new permissiveness in the amount of violence and nudity allowed, much less encouraged, in European genre productions, the Towers pictures (he often scripted as well under the nom de plume Peter Welbeck) are indicated by their prosaic exposition offset by their virulent racism.

A smoothly written script gives us glimpses of what these characters are going through allowing the film to drive home it's hall of fame status as one of the most well crafted films of all time.

Director Jodie Foster, using Alan DiFiore, Jamie Linden and Jim Louf's darkly humorous and always suspense - inducing script, ensures that the audience will not be allowed to take a breath, though Julia Roberts as the newscaster's director doesn't have all that much to do other than sitting by the cameras.

«Homeland's» Damian Lewis is spectacular as Chief Inspector Frank Haskins, and thankfully the script allows him to be more Martin Castillo than the «give me your badges» type of captain.

Surely, a better script would find a reasonable compromise or resolution that allows the full roster of the Kingsmen and Statesmen to co-exist as similar yet different factions focused on thwarting the plots of cheesy Roger Moore - era James Bond evil masterminds.

The entry point for this are the custom scripts that TalentLMS allows you to include as part of your theme.

For this study we allowed the marks to cover the whole mark range, as we were uncertain of how the marked scripts would end up.

Torres and Howell have already developed a kind of shorthand that allows Torres» script writing process to become leaner and leaner as the story progresses.

I have gotten zergRush to work on the nook tablet as well as created a batch script for you to run to allow you to root your tablet.

I must say though that I haven't really come across any issues with reading devices, although when creating my XSLT scripts I did go to great effort to keep the EPUB mark - up as clean and simple as possible, which allows the book to render nicely — even on ADE.

You can use them for EPUB 2 compliance (SVG with XHTML fallbacks, as SVG wasn't allowed in the spine previous), and even for script-less reading systems (fallback from an EPUB 3 - compliant XHTML content document marked as scripted to another EPUB 3 - compliant XHTML content document not marked as scripted).

What bindings do is allow you to attach a scripted XHTML document to another media type as a first fallback.

His script contains some intense action scenes, such as the opening number between Angela and Drax, allowing Deodato the opportunity to flex his superheroic muscles.

Had the writers been allowed to they could have created a script in which we get a simple examination of the police force in our own world and the controversial methods they often employ, obviously kept to a minimum so as not to get in the way of the actual racing.

However, where I can not fault Ground Zeroes is in the presentation of that meager plot, as Hideo Kojima seems to have finally managed to master his own potential which I always felt was there, but never allowed to show in the often poorly scripted and meandering previous games.

In this approach, a game isn't designed as a complete specific construct, but a as group of independent systems that are dumped into a defined world and allowed to interact with each other without being scripted.

Maniac Mansion's Script Creation Utility (or, SCUMM) was first created as an engine that would allow future designers to create game locations, dialogue, and items without having to write code for each stage.

There have certainly been no shortcuts taken in localising the game, and the script allows for plenty of hilarious moments as Pietro meets new characters on his journey.

A scenario editor is included as well allowing players to create maps, custom scripts and scenarios as they see fit.

My only concern was that the demo felt a little too much like a scripted dungeon without allowing me to explore freestyle, but as this was apparently the initial training stage hopefully things open up later on.

In Who, What, Where... the performance of the script allows a structural analysis of the mechanisms by which acts of war are repeatedly presented as inevitable political scenarios.