Sentences with phrase «audience sympathy in»

Not exact matches

If a prosecutor wants to convict a man of assault, he is (without a doubt) going to paint a picture for the audience of the suffering of the defendant, and will likely use expressive language to evoke a feeling of sympathy from the jury, who (as they listen) visualize the potential suffering of the man / woman in front of them.

The director may have intended to draw the audience into complicity with the lovers» selfishness — and in fact, I was surprised at how long it took for the audience to stop laughing at Ernest, to lose their edgy sympathy for the lovers — but the ultimate effect was simply to make the lovers» erotic demands seem further from our own.

The sneering reply that Vince's contribution to the debate was simply «spreading alarm without substance» tells the audience outside Westminster why a Prime Minister, with an attitude like this to critics, ends up with so few friends in the House and, now that his pack of cards has come tumbling down around the voters» ears, even less sympathy outside.

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

The film bustles along through a series of reveals — a storytelling technique that can lose an audience's sympathy or suspension of disbelief pretty fast, but which works flawlessly here because the filmmakers and the performers know exactly who their characters are and what kind of world they live in.

There's a little bit of farcical spoof humor in place as well, with Django's strut now accompanied by contemporary soundtrack rhymes from Rick Ross, with the irreverent sass - talk of Samuel L. Jackson's postmodern Sambo as Candie's reliable assistant Stephen, clouding the audience's sympathies.

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.

Where those previous films felt compelled to lunge for edginess (read: sneering raunch) as chaos dutifully descended on characters they didn't like very much — and weren't particularly interested in getting audiences to like, either — Game Night takes care to locate our sympathies with Bateman, and McAdams, and its cast of charming ringers.

Mickey and Mallory Knox were a fictional hypothetical, for they asked audiences if, in an age where O.J. Simpson was front - page news for a year for just two killings, could a pair of young murderers win over the hearts (if not the sympathies) of a nation with dozens?

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.

In «Friends with Kids,» she easily earns the audience's sympathies and support.

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.

All the characters in his film are flawed creatures, and McDonagh twists the audience's expectation on their heads and plays with our distaste and sympathy simultaneously.

In the span of five minutes, Loki runs the full spectrum of feelings audiences have had towards the half - bred trickster: betrayal, anger, sympathy, shock, sorrow.

It's an entire cultural epoch ahead of its time — the cynicism of Hud's «rightness» held in the trembling hands of creepy Cal, who, though he elicits the audience's sympathy, is as destructive a figure to our romantic image of the hero as Paul Newman's solipsistic cowboy.

This same story and idea could have been structured in a different way with better character development and more heart to have the audience feel a bit more sympathy for David or the children.

That mind ends up isolating him from his friends and loved ones, and maybe for the first time since L.I.E., Dano (and director Bill Pohlad) makes the choice to let the audience in with him in a way that will actually build sympathy.

Rebecca Ferguson - so fantastic in the most recent «Mission Impossible» - is utterly wasted as new wife Anna, a character who seemed to have been designed to wring sympathy from the audience, something I couldn't bestow given that she cheated and lied her way into her seemingly perfect life and don't even get me started on Haley Bennett's Megan, a woman whose tragic past was overshadowed entirely by her fingernails - down - the - blackboard performance as a one dimensional woman who had nothing but overt sexuality and a flat whining energy to offer.

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 beingIn 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 beingin a way that loses the audience sympathy and ability to identify with any of the characters as human beings.

At no point in this journey does the audience find sympathy for Packouz.

Not that most of the ladies in this category have been short - listed for playing saints, but the squawking Ryan's potty mouth reigns supreme in Gone Baby Gone: The calculated one - liners meant to elicit audience sympathy for Boston's lower class («I don't got no daycare» — essentially a variation of Amy «I got one leg» Poehler's Amber from SNL) are trumped by nasties like «Why don't you suck a nigger's dick, Bea,» «It smells like cock,» «Nigger please, I hid it,» «Fucks yous both,» and my personal favorite, «Who's the faggot now, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.»

His reviews were inevitably astute and well - informed yet just as naturally considered and kind, in keeping with his sympathies for both filmmaker and audience.

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