Sentences with phrase «built around a character»

While «Farewell, My Queen» does boast admirable elements (more on those below) overall, despite some showy trappings it is a frustratingly empty experience, built around a character whose blankness is supposed to be a virtue, but ends up costing the film dearly in terms of identification and interest.

It was [and is] the first television series to be built around a character who suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder [formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder].

It's an actor's dream, since the entire movie is built around his character, and he gets to play nearly every emotion, but it's bereft of excessively showy dramatics.

Ostensibly this is a film built around his character, Mike Banning — he finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat - and - mouse while trying to find and rescue President Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and avoid being gunned down like virtually every other member of the White House and the Secret Service.

Indeed, it is a film built around a character who has spent years trying to block out all the emotions that this film arouses.

They're built around characters as opposed to sight gags or gross - out humor and I miss that.

On the one hand, Legend of Zelda is a franchise that is built around character tropes.

That said, the cars have all been custom - built around each character as before, so there's still plenty of variety when it comes to vehicles — especially since each vehicle has three modes.

Not exact matches

Now Twitter, which has 302 million active users, faces deep questions about the future of its messaging service, which is built around 140 - character snippets of text in a world that is increasingly about photos and video.

It is not unreasonable to insist that an adequate discernment of God's character as «faithful to promise» could take place only from within the framework of our involvement in a faith community built up around the narration of previous instances of God's fidelity.

I think evil around us builds character.

It's a structure built around us and the arduous, intensely personal process of escaping it is dependent less on strength of character and more on circumstances that are created by straight society.

Later, O'Grady says, «I was walking around telling myself that defeat was character - building, when the P.A. starts yelling for me to come to the steward's room.

Fortunately, this team is built around strong characters with champion mentality.

On a local level: Alex Lucas, a talented Bristol artist whose large illustrative paintings of animal characters adorn the walls of buildings around the city; and Ged Palmer, a lettering artist and sign painter based in London.

The whole Montessori system is built around building character and meeting the physical, the emotional, the social, the spiritual needs of the children and wrapping them around this creative learning environment that the teacher guides.

With snappy writing and well - drawn characters, a skilled director can build an entertaining movie around a formula, as we saw in last year's Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Beard, the writer, spent more time developing characters which are disappearing around the story than building a story itself.

The filmmakers clearly built a script around a series of action scenes, George Lucas style, and in order to get it to flow at all, they had to force large inconsistencies into Cheadle's «character.»

With his trusty assistant Pippy beside him Popper closes a deal on Manhattan's famed Flat Iron building by convincing Jeffrey Tambor's character Mr. Gremmins that the time has come for him to pursue his dreams of sailing around the world.

As if the shoddy, occasionally British - sounding Soviet accents weren't enough of a red flag, the Russian characters are so damn extra all the time that if they were real people, Bravo would've built a reality franchise around them already.

For the rest, he hired a screenwriter to build a story around these bits of business, along with characters the audience would care about.

The whole film is built around and reflects his character: quiet, obsessive, and troubled.

All of these comedy duos and trios built characters around their real life personas, so it's sort of strange seeing other actors step into these roles.

To dull the pain of their rudderless existence, he and his friends drive around, smoke pot, burn down abandoned buildings, and generally behave like multicultural, Midwestern versions of the kids from Saturday Night Fever, another bleak working - class character study driven by a mesmerizing central star turn.

«The film is not a biopic, but rather a comedy built around the antics of the three characters that Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Howard played in the Columbia Pictures shorts.»

A sprawling set of mostly unnecessary characters flounder around in the background (they're all about as sharply drawn as the cast of extras filling Times Square in one scene), building the importance of this ambitious rescue mission, sort of like Gravity churned through later period David Lean.

She hopes that bodes well for Annihilation, and she believes Black Panther will put to rest once and for all the notion that movies built around black characters do not achieve international box office success.

If we hadn't seen any of The Hunger Games movies, Divergent might have felt fresher, less like a medium - grade helping of dystopian sci - fi built around a young female character who learns to kick butt.

The filmmakers know that over the life of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, their different characters vibrate at different frequencies, so the films built around them have adopted different tones.

The characters aren't very compelling either, and that's a problem in a film built around action.

This low - key character study from filmmaker Joshua Marston is built around a woman who prefers to make up her life as she goes along — one new, invented identity at a time.

The shallow characters might have been worthwhile if the film had any proper gags to hold them up, but the film is built solely around letting McCarthy spitball around basic scene set - ups and hoping the chaos that spews from her mouth will carry the film to the next scene, where the practice is repeated ad nauseam.

In between these boss levels, Castles is a relatively easy - going match three that is built around the fairly unusual idea that players control a character on screen who must physically move blocks into place by pushing and pulling them.

In those 30 pages they never left the hut, never said what the point was of the entire adventure that everyone would soon go on, very little character building of the 13 Dwarves just a bunch of silly singing, eating and reading about how purplexed Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) was at the shenanigans going around him.

Christoph Waltz — whom the whole film seems to have been built around — is excellent and he plays a charming character much like his stint in Inglourious Basterds but without the slightly negative Nazi connotations.

Ex Machina is built around three characters: Caleb, a talented computer programmer played by Domhnall Gleeson; Nathan, the brilliant owner of the search engine software company he works for played by Oscar Isaac; and Nathan's creation Ava, an artificially intelligent robot female played by Alicia Vikander.

I missed the stage show, but I wonder: Does it build its arc around the character of the mother, or the daughter?

The romantic angle is what drives the narrative of the film, but this is first and foremost a character piece that is clearly built around its tremendous leading lady.

James Tynion IV has done remarkable work crafting compelling drama around the Bat - family with his Detective Comics run, taking cues from the Chris Claremont school of superhero storytelling to build a dense narrative featuring a big cast of characters, each with their own subplots.

X-men just got around to it sooner, with the franchise having been around long enough that they could build to something like this and killing off characters could mean something.

Because after the disastrous 2004 sequel to the sci - fi / horror cult classic «Pitch Black,» it seemed like Diesel's grand plans to build a franchise around the character had more or less sputtered out.

Despite his enduring role in pop culture, numerous attempts to do the Hulk justice on screen have left fans more angry than the Green Goliath himself and Marvel's only attempt to build a solo movie around the character didn't fare much better.

He doesn't rely on an intrusive music score or shock tactics (as you'd maybe expect from a director who cut his teeth on a low - budget horror movie) but wisely pairs events down and allows the tension and suspense to build assuredly around natural characters, performances and events.

Though most of the hype for Infinity thus far has revolved around its free - form build - a-game Toy Box mode, it will also include pre-created worlds and sets based on Disney's characters and stories.

The odd hybrid of small town soap opera and brutal crime thriller builds slowly — maybe a little too slowly for some — but director Richard Fleischer does an impressive job of weaving the stories and character around each other visually, with characters criss - crossing through scenes and Fleischer panning his camera to across the vast canvas to pick out threads of others stories.

Featuring clips and character commentary of Franco's General Hospital soap opera stint, the entire project seems to be built around Franco's world inside his head.

McAdams» mix of femininity, intelligence and vulnerability make a perfect foundation for the tension Craven builds around her as her character's resourcefulness begets hope, destruction and extreme danger while the film builds toward an exhilarating, roller - coaster climax.

Its central theme (the danger inherent in our fears) isn't explored all that well, and the central character, Newt (Eddie Redmayne) isn't interesting enough to build a narrative around.

By now, the critical reception for director Todd Haynes» «Carol» has built a fortress of prestige around the film itself, much as the title character played by Cate Blanchett goes through her life protected by just the right clothes and makeup, a...