Sentences with phrase «audience sympathy»

The stateside killer is largely an antihero carrying some vestige of audience sympathy, not a bane to be reviled and expunged.

The screenplay tends to constrain rather than liberate Hitchcock's thematic thrust, but there is much of technical value in his geometric survey of the scene and the elaborate strategies employed to transfer audience sympathy among the main characters.

The screenplay tends to constrain rather than liberate Hitchcock's thematic thrust, but there is much of technical value in his geometric survey of the scene and the elaborate strategies employed to transfer audience sympathy among the four main characters.

As a drama the film fails because Truffaut never manages to elicit audience sympathy for such enigmatic characters.

It moves audience sympathy in the wrong direction.

Like so many of Blanchett's performances, Cate plays Jasmine exposed with no plan to evoke audience sympathy, but so naked (figuratively) is Jasmine by the end that you can't help but feel for her.

Volpe's specificity with each characterization, including many of the men, humanizes what would otherwise be an issue - driven movie, and lends it an immediacy and resonance that fuels audience sympathies, not to mention understanding.

The gamesmanship continues in Abel's modest apartment, where the close attention paid to his earlier activities lends his attempts to hide that coded message an instinctive audience sympathy, even though he's spying on the good old U.S.A.. By observing a spy at the ground level (the camera swoops low around Abel's pursuers» feet, as if it's combing the apartment itself), Spielberg establishes the humanity so crucial to the rest of the film.

Because he creates no real audience sympathy for her one way or the other, it may be hard for one to welcome the final, «screw you» epithet she (and Schrader?)

Psycho II helmer Franklin offers the best commentary as he dissects the film's quintessentially Hitchcock murder sequence, in which audience sympathies ping - pong between the victim, the killer, and the mastermind behind it all.

Maclean makes Fuckhead a picaresque figure for the doped - up, dropped - out»70s, a character who retains audience sympathies despite a series of disturbing and destructive scenarios.

A lot of guys in thirties movies were on the make and always looking for an angle, but Gable was more brazen and unapologetic about his mercenary ways and still could get audience sympathy while he fleeced a mark.

But that doesn't stop director Dylan («How High») and writer Adam Herz (the creator of these «Pie» movies) from attempting to garner actual audience sympathy for him when he realizes he may have ruined his friends» wedding, thereby blowing his chance to bed Michelle's little sister Candice (January Jones).

Scenes that find Claire hallucinating or dreaming about poor Nina (Anna Kendrick) are too brief, the film more like a showcase for Aniston's breadth than one which could actually evoke deep audience sympathy,

Reggie is initially the more reasonable man, whose gentlemanly romancing of the sweet, jittery Frances (Emily Browning) will initially make him a likeable character for some viewers, though Helgeland slowly and deftly shifts audience sympathies for each twin.

The milieu, of working class Lowell, Mass., is re-created in rich detail, and Mark Wahlberg, as real - life welterweight Micky Ward, is an engaging locus of audience sympathy.

You might expect an all - white cast in a play about affirmative action to face an upward battle for audience sympathy.

However, the latest indictment of contemporary socioeconomic class division from director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) finds just enough hope amid its cutthroat maze of greed and corruption to allow for audience sympathy, especially for those who can relate to missing a house payment or feeling the financial pinch.

In popcorn movies (the «Spider - Man» reboot) and high - type efforts like this one, the actor is often on the verge of tears, sometimes movingly, other times in ways that seem like bids for audience sympathy.

Worse still, Trent's immaturity and obnoxiousness undercuts any audience sympathy for him.

The movie looked fantastic on the IMAX screen but the plot and bland, stupid main characters were muddled, uneven and weak giving the audience no sympathy for them only frustration.

In fact, most scenes tended to go completely against the grain, where one scene played for silly comedy while the next ended up being dark, brooding and excessively violent in a way that loses the audience sympathy and ability to identify with any of the characters as human beings.

Director David Dobkin does a very good job of blending the film's disparate comedic styles, and while Wedding Crashers generally oversells the smarmy loathsomeness of Sack (making sure to paint him as a philandering letch so as not to retain any possible vestige of audience sympathy), the Cleary clan — a nice admixture of Kennedy and Bush lore and speculation — provides a suitably rich backdrop against which John and Jeremy can spin their wheels.

I said above that Mildred is a tough person to be around, and she is — there are moments late in the movie when she commits acts that push at the limits of audience sympathy and goodwill.

Rupert Wyatt's graceful and complex Rise of the Planet of the Apes was hobbled, but not ruined, by a chowder - headed misalignment of audience sympathies.

It possibly could have been even funnier, if director Smith had resorted to merely laughing at his subjects, but he correctly concludes that simply filming them as is would provide the right balance of humor, heart and audience sympathy.

«A coming - of - age story that successfully evokes emotions and audience sympathy» — Gilbert Seah, Festival Reviews