Sentences with phrase «by a minor character»

The whole story turns on a minor speech given by a minor character.

Not exact matches

The character of the imperial cult, at least in the eastern empire, is the subject of considerable debate at present, as can be seen by a cursory examination of the two most significant works on the subject: S. R. F. Price's Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor and Steven Friesen's Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Family.

[T] he development of mentality exhibits itself as a rhythm involving an interweaving of cycles, the whole process being dominated by a greater cycle of the same general character as its minor eddies» (AE 27).

Manolas sprints into an ever - expanding tangle of substitutes, coaches, physios, officials, friends, family members, acquaintances, hangers - on, ballboys, passers - by, photographers, a bus load of lost tourists, a couple of minor royals, British character actor Toby Jones, a small mariachi band, and a man riding an elephant.

Written and directed by Bille August, Pelle the Conqueror is peopled with the sort of vivid minor characters that lodge in your consciousness.

At his best, Bay is like Frank Capra on crack: the screen is littered with minor characters and throwaway jokes zing by with Zucker - like speed.

Lady Bird has a quiet and concise outrage about economic inequality, and key to its emotional generosity is that even minor supporting characters seem aware of how unfair it is that their futures can be determined by something so random as when and where they're born.

A few unexpected minor pleasures: the time - travel flick Predestination, an adaptation of a Robert A. Heinlein short story that's one of those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minute.

Violence: C Teens carrying guns; two drive - by shootings; car catches on fire; fist - fighting and kicking during two brawls with minor bleeding injuries; clawing and scratching fight between female characters; male character slaps and threatens two female characters; bloody head of dead woman.

sung by Mick Jones as himself in a cameo that makes a strange sort of sense within the films context of cloning; a minor character with a freckle fetish who regards Anne of Green Gables as an erotic classic; and one of the most achingly powerful evocations of longing that I have ever seen.

But while director Oliver Hirschbiegel («DasExperiment») very effectively takes youdeep inside Nazi Germany's crumbling heart and brings many infamous momentsacutely to life, his film doesn't offer much in the way of new insight.The script is more of a textbook play - by - play than an examination of impulsesand psyches, and while the Hirschbiegel and his cast add those dimensionsthrough their fine work, it seems the only way he could invest the audiencein these events was by seeking out a sympathetic minor character — inthe person of Hitler's young secretary, Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)-- and beef up her significance.

Character actor Robert A. Silverman, a minor axiom of the Cronenbergian here playing a paranoid sculptor, is an early exemplar of the style, which is more or less totalized in the ensemble of Crash (96) and received one of its wittiest variations by Sarah Gadon in Cosmopolis (12).

Along with some problems with minor characters seemingly existing only to be killed / assimilated is the issue of CG simply not being up to the standard of the old models used by the original movie.

You don't particularly care about any of the characters, everyone makes predictable decisions, no central figure is ever in true peril, and it pushes its PG - 13 rating by giving minor players some memorably gruesome ends.

One example of this is a out - of - place scene where a minor character goes into the woods to use the bathroom and is attacked by a group of little dinosaurs (Compsognathus is what they are officially called).

Anderson wisely jettisons some of the inessentials and introduces a few new elements, the most pronounced and ingenious being Sortilége, a minor character from the novel who transforms into a narrator / guardian angel / apparition played by Joanna Newsom.

Main characters disappear for long stretches, while in one case a minor character (played by Sebastian Stan) gets clumsily introduced at a random time just so we know who he is later.

With regards to the introduction of previous Heroes from other games, it's done in the similar fashion as to how any new character is introduced, usually by you joining them in battle to assist them, or having to battle them first and then they join you, but while I would like to applaud its story for the way it does mirror that of one you'd expect from a lesser Fire Emblem game, but there can be no denying that despite the approach taken, it's story does feel like that of Fire Emblem Heroes and Hyrule Warriors slapped together with some of the names, items and minor details changed to something else.

Dozens of characters are created and brought to life by some of the greatest actors of mid-century Japan, from stars Toshiro Mifune and Takeshi Shimura to minor character actors like Bokuzen Hidari and Seiji Miyaguchi.

Quentin Tarantino cast him in the relatively minor part of Billy Crash, but after Kurt Russell, who was to have played the right - hand - man of villain Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), walked off the set, Tarantino, blown away by Goggins» work on the film, incorporated Russell's character into Crash, rather than recasting.

This minor character development is literally swept away by larger issues at hand.

This is unusual considering Tiptup is considered a Banjo character and is presumably still owned by Rare / Microsoft, but his presence was possibly due to the fact that he had a very minor role in the Banjo - Kazooie games.

Maybe you can take this as minor commentary about how the «normal» characters» excessively - masculinized relationships are no less screwed - up than the Farmer's efforts to play house with his victims (the appearance of the latter forcing the two brothers to mend old wounds), but you have no choice except to abandon such thoughts the moment Tracey's curse - laden diatribes are cut short by a shovel crammed into her mouth — which really has nothing on its mind besides «that oughta shut the bitch up.»

Even minor roles are filled by skilled actors who bring conviction to their characters, both real and imagined.

Once you get past the fact that it isn't a biopic about its writer Jon Ronson's time playing keyboards for the late musician and comedian Frank Sidebottom (an easy mistake to make, given Gleeson's character is called Jon and plays keyboards in a band fronted by a man called Frank, played by Michael Fassbender from beneath a papier - mache head almost identical to that sported by Sidebottom), Frank turns out to be a funny and moving meditation on mental illness and the corrupting power of fame, even of the minor variety.

Enter the remaining cast of characters, both major and minor: the janitorial staff of the classified underground wing of the compound, Zelda Fuller (Octavia Spencer in a role written for her by del Toro) and the mute Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins, radiant in a star - making role); the attending government scientist Dr. Robert Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg), also a Russian double - agent; and, of course, Elisa's next door neighbor, Giles (Richard Jenkins, deserving of a Supporting Actor nomination), who frets about growing older and his hair loss, pines for love with a local pie shop employee and shares his passion for musicals with the equally besotted Elisa (they sit side - by - side on the sofa performing a quick soft shoe).

The character is likely a relatively minor part of Civil War, but our first look at Grillo's costume has arrived by way of a photo snapped on the Atlanta set.

His statements are not dulled by any overbearing cruelty to the characters, but instead the minor atrocities put upon them help to give weight to their problems, not make them seem like cartoons of a sadistic artist.

In several interviews following the release of Carol, Todd Haynes admits to modeling the film's structure off of Brief Encounter, which is bookended by scenes of lovers being interrupted by an otherwise minor character while offering their goodbyes to one another.

Finally, Ramin Bahrani's minor - key character study «Goodbye Solo» (** 1/2), a FIPRESCI prize - winner at Venice, has numerous affecting moments, but is tainted by some heavy - handed writing that spells out its characters» emotions in rather too prosaic a fashion.

I wasn't entirely sure what was going through the director's mind when he had his main character Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) hit by two cars and a truck, and not even end up with a limp (I believe he may have had some minor scratches though).

«Nick Kurt Dale INC.: Employee Testimonials» (2:13) lets more minor actors remain in character to vouch for their winning workplace atmosphere set by their bosses.

The screenplay (worked on by Ross, original author Suzanne Collins, and Billy Ray) compresses the story losing some minor characters and plot points.

The shirt boasts the logo for Tales of the Black Freighter, a magazine read by two minor Watchmen characters.

Maggie James (Jacinda Barrett), her young son Conor (Jimmy Bennett), a suicidal businessman (Richard Dreyfuss) who's been jilted by his male lover, a stowaway (Mia Maestro) and a few other minor characters (Kevin Dillon, Stacy Ferguson) round out the cast.

In one scene, the hero was injured by debris falling from a collapsing building, and I wanted to bring in a doctor as a minor character.

However, guns can not be pointed at a character, directed out toward the customer, or handled by a minor.

The premise is to live in the Harry Potter universe by playing a minor character in the school.

It can be tempting to pull off # 1 by using minor characters, or unrelated themes or plot devices in your opening chapter to hook readers before starting the main story in Chapter 2.

A Serpent's Tooth and Other Stories (Penguin, 1980) By the time I was thirteen years old, I had come to realise I would always be a minor character in my mother's life.

The book had some well drawn characters and in the movie in my head I was reminded of great pictures such as PAPER MOON and BONNIE AND CLYDE, it evoked that time / era... the 30's bank robbers who were glamorized as hero's... Anyway the book is fine and my only minor quibble is that it ends the way most Leonard books end, [edited by BookBrowse to remove plot spoiler]... But Elmore Leonards been doing this for more years then I have been alive and I've read every single page he ever wrote so as I say, these are minor quibbles.

Minor characters flesh out the ensemble cast at Vladimir's dacha, the most intriguing being Stepanin, a world - class chef buoyed by his belief that the demented former president understands and appreciates the gourmet meals he prepares.

While I liked some of the characters, and was touched by the short stories about some of the minor characters, I could not get past the overuse of profanity and obscenities that proliferated throughout the book.

Legal Simon Jones has commentary on the defeat this week of a controversial bill in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly to tighten regulations on the sexual depictions of minors in manga, anime and video games: «This is a social battle waged in legislature, and the ultimate goal is to once again push adult content back into the darkest recesses of society, by getting people accustomed to the idea of granting rights to fictional characters, and eroding the rights of real people to have free and unpleasant speech.

And, although they seem like minor additions on the surface, they help differentiate the cast by giving character specialists new tools to play with and change the dynamics of the match - up.

He hits his 40th birthday surrounded by an insane boss, Crystal, a friends - with - benefits co-worker, Alice, and an appropriately diverse set of minor characters for Perry to bounce off of.

The characters that inhabit the Witchers world are well - written people with motives, agendas and distinct personalities, from the lovely Triss Merrigold to the rather awesome Iorveth, the game has a memorable cast, each of whom are backed up by fantastic voice - acting, apart from several case of over-acted and cheesy performances from some the relatively minor characters.

The lawsuit claimed that Noriega's image was exploited and his reputation was damaged by being included as a minor character in Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

With regards to the introduction of previous Heroes from other games, it's done in the similar fashion as to how any new character is introduced, usually by you joining them in battle to assist them, or having to battle them first and then they join you, but while I would like to applaud its story for the way it does mirror that of one you'd expect from a lesser Fire Emblem game, but there can be no denying that despite the approach taken, it's story does feel like that of Fire Emblem Heroes and Hyrule Warriors slapped together with some of the names, items and minor details changed to something else.

This could possibly be achieved by making every character count, no matter how minor they are in the game, so when it comes to having to kill them, it makes it difficult to do so.