Sentences with phrase «by white characters»

This whole idea of the victimisation of Africa by pharmaceutical companies, by terrorist groups, all of whom seem to be run by white characters who are coming in and exploiting people,» he notes, and then later points out, «I think what they're trying to do is say this is a shit scary space that you're in and it's full of anger and furthermore also people hate Americans.

Not exact matches

But like many superheroes of color in the Marvel (and DC) universes, Black Panther was relegated to the periphery of the pantheon of superheroes — most of whom were white male characters created by white men.

Most of the programming featured white men as protagonists; women and black men were, by and large, secondary characters.

On Wednesday's broadcast of CNN's «Wolf,» Representative Steve Cohen (D - TN) reacted to White House lawyer Ty Cobb's departure by stating, «Nobody can stay around Donald Trump long who has a conscience and who has character and who believes in ethics.»

In Selma, white characters are played by white actors and black characters are played by black actors.

When, in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared his «dream» — that we Americans should one day become a society where a citizen's race would be an irrelevancy, where black and white children would walk hand - in - hand, where persons would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character — this seemed to many Americans both a noble and attainable goal.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

What is offensive that Ms. Harris is so pained by a fictional Christmas character being represented as White that she would rather see said character portrayed in the form of a bird rather than a human being.

I find it much less disturbing that Megyn Kelly should make a point of observing that the character of Santa Claus is traditionally white than the suggestion by Aisha Harris that there is something intrinsically wrong with a white Santa Claus.

«The attack on the character of Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas by militant white feminists, in books and newspaper articles, should not be ignored by anyone concerned with the misuse of the Black American Civil Rights Movement.

[Sources: Karen Jobes, Esther (The NIV Application Commentary); «Esther,» Sidnie Ann White Crawford in Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe; Michael V. Fox, Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther]

However, the latest wave of this trend, including but not limited to, Snow White and the Huntsman, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and Jack the Giant Slayer have each demonstrated, in their own way, a fundamental flaw with this premise; they lazily force these classic characters to «grow up» by ratcheting up the angst and violence instead of revisiting the more complex layers that exist within the original stories themselves.

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(Later, Huck can only make sense of Jim's kindness to him and Tom Sawyer by concluding he must be «white on the inside,» a comment that reveals Twain's gift for creating characters that both critique yet fully inhabit their cultural contexts.)

Evoking the mystery and the suddenness of the characters» deaths by means of abrupt shifts in viewpoint and by the use of white space, Greene makes of death a strange departure for an unknown destination.

Tottenham are set to welcome a huge character to White Hart Lane in the shape of the 6 ″ 5 Federico Fazio, while the chances of signing long term target Morgan Schneiderlin are receding by the day.

So... follow the White Bunny and meet a Princess with Vegetable Issues, a Danish Hedgehog in a teacup, a thoughtful Jackalope and many other magical characters waiting to be embroidered by you.»

After you've gotten your fill from the delicious brunch buffet, prepare to be wowed by the sheer number of stations; from hair and makeup for kids to cookie - decorating (courtesy of the beloved Sweet Mandy B's peeps) to entertainment throughout the day, including the Jesse White Tumblers and characters galore.

As a teenager, I loved the Saturday afternoon black and white films on TV, with strong women characters played by Bette Davis or Joan Crawford.

But when the black spaces are replaced by a green shade with the same luminance as the blue (previously white) spaces, the 3 - D character of the image falls apart (right).

I also questioned if the white - colored formula would really be covered up by my mascara and if not, would I end up looking like a character from Frozen?

Rob added texture and character to a plain white headboard wall by installing luxurious floor - to - ceiling cushioned leather tiles.

Integrate the main character of our story into your own outfit by creating a yellow, white, and green look with an airy finish that's reminiscent of the iconic watercolor illustrations throughout the book and perfect for planet - hopping and flying around the stars.

Photographed by Miguel Reveriego at the Catalina Beach Club in Atlantic Beach, New York, Margot steps into a mixture of nautical - inspired black, white, navy and red outfits styled by Jessica Diehl, truly getting into her 50s character.

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A person is determined by the character and the heart they have as per the white men.

She demonstrates obvious kinship with the characters played by Molly Shannon in «Year of the Dog» (which Mr. White wrote and directed) and Laura Dern in the HBO series «Enlightened» (which he created).

Awaiting us on this trip are a few new characters (Merlin the magician by Eric Idle, Pinochio by Cody Cameron, Mabel by Regis Philbin), and Fiona's own posse of royal gal - pals, bringing in more than a hint of the feminist element: Snow White (Amy Poehler), Sleeping Beauty (Cheri Oteri), Rapunzel (Maya Rudolph), Cinderella (Amy Sedaris), aka, «Cindy» and transgender toughie Doris (Larry King).

My biggest hope is that Zombie either learns to become a better and less lazy writer (by doing away with all things white trash and fleshing out the story and characters) or that he hires someone else to be the screenwriter for his next project, whatever it happens to be.

And the most compelling character of all, a sci - fi nerd named Lionel (played, wonderfully, by Tyler James Williams), becomes a pawn of three distinct parties: The (white) editor of the student newspaper, the (white) housemates he's been unhappily thrown in with, and the (black) students who don't know what to make of him.

Voiced by Chiara Mastroianni in French — Satrapi herself lives in Paris now — she's the most fully drawn female character in movies this year, only black and white and flat all over.

But then the action is muddled by some unnecessary and meaningless CGI pyrotechnics, a holdover character from a previous MCU film (a white dude, naturally) is shoved into the spotlight, and we all brace ourselves for the typical post-credits stinger.

Apart from Klaue, the only other prominent white character is veteran CIA secret agent Everett K Ross, played in typically engaging and bumbling fashion by Martin Freeman.

Coogler flips this by making Martin Freeman the token white character.

The essential characters are rounded out by Brendan Gleeson's dour sheriff, Oliver Platt's rich and eccentric mythology buff, and Betty White as the colorful local little old lady with a secret or two.

She also lends her talent to Columbia's upcoming Stuart Little, a family comedy based on the book by E.B. White, where Tilly gives voice to the character of Stuart's biological mother (who just happens to be a mouse).

In the scheme of Lehane's pulp narrative he is, in fact, a white savior, and while various critics and a few ordinary citizens are busy throwing that condemnation at the Ryan Gosling character in «La La Land,» a charge that makes little sense in the context of the movie itself (vanilla is one thing; white savior is a different flavor) here in «Live by Night» we have a serious case of the white saviors.

The most interesting character by far is the white whale, who is apparently omniscient, and he doesn't get nearly enough screen time.

Little White Lies had a marathon running time that was justified, I think, by a well - meant effort to give room to a large group of central characters.

American Dreamz tracks the lives of three characters particularly — the host, a Simon Cowell impersonation done half - heartedly by Hugh Grant; the star, Mandy Moore as a white - trash girl with dreams of fame and fortune; and the laughable, Muslim immigrant Omer, selected only to allow the manufacture of religious tension with a Jewish contestant.

Before she knows it, Lively's character has been attacked by a great white shark and is fighting for her life stranded on a pile of rocks barely jetting above the ocean.

I see the white Windsor - EF Elongated and a warm smile embraces my being, for I know that the next 100 minutes of my life will be enraptured by a dialogue between my two favourite Allen characters: wit and heart.

For all the talk of existential ennui and economic security among this cast of characters, the motivations of Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur ultimately ring clearest: He's shifting his Hollywood aspirations from the grime - crime of Tony Scott («Contraband» and «2 Guns») to the marriage of grandeur and intimacy preferred by Tony's brother, Ridley, in «White Squall,» «Black Hawk Down» or «Gladiator» (which also boasted «Everest» co-writer William Nicholson in its credits).

But only one comes to mind with racism as an actual character: the controversial drama «White Dog,» directed by Samuel Fuller, based on the novel by Romain Gary.

He loves his solitude and he is put on edge when all the land's fairy tale characters (everybody from the Three Blind Mice, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Three Little Pigs, Pinocchio, and on and on and on) are banished to his humble turf by an evil lord.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

«Dark Stranger» doesn't feature a consistent story, instead it's a series of vignettes, all tied to themes of attraction, trust, and commitment, hoisted up high by self - centered characters who spend much of the movie arguing into white noise.

He has the look of a TV movie - of - the - week white trash psycho, but his character is actually a total milquetoast, utterly whipped by not one, but two women.

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is a term coined by Nathan Rabin to describe the female character whose written to help the usually white, and definitely straight male hero loosen up and enjoy life.

The film is written by the same creative quartet that work on Jamie's television show, so they know the character inside and out, and how much you find funny will also greatly depend on whether or not you know white kids like Brad Gluckman yourself, the well - off white kid who wants so desperately to be down with the hip hop lifestyle.