Sentences with phrase «career woman character»

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If you're not familiar with her character, she's a curvy gal with a razor wit who was a career woman before her time.

Because Vivian is such a powerful and increasingly sympathetic character, I created three outfit sets revolving around independent career women who, like Vivian, are tough enough to carve out their own space in the world even when they feel as if they are all alone.

In fact, to modern eyes, Randolph Scott's character, Randolph Morgan, seems like an insufferable prig when he constantly lectures his artist girlfriend Cynthia Warren (Daniels) that «you can't change the rules» — in other words, women were meant for marriage and child - rearing, not successful careers.

There's little doubt, though, that Kubrick's solid eye for compelling visuals is firmly in place even at this nascent stage in his career, and it's worth noting, too, that the movie boasts a very small handful of genuinely compelling sequences (eg Mazursky's unhinged character is left alone with a woman from a nearby village).

British character actress Julie Walters has made a career out of playing working - class women with good hearts and sharp tongues — which should come as no surprise, given her background.

Hathaway will play Megan, a young woman who reacts to her boyfriend's marriage proposal by pretending to go on a career retreat while she's really hiding out with her new best friend, Moretz's character, 16 - year - old Annika.

In the first female driven buddy cop comedy, the actresses proved that women characters don't need a man to help them thrive in their careers and relationships; Ashburn and Mullins succeeded in their decision to work together stop a dangerous city drug lord from further killing anyone else he perceived to be a threat.

We also talk about why her desire to also be a producer on the HBO series was non-negotiable; the necessary use of violence and exploitation of women to show the reality of the character; and another role in the upcoming Netflix Sundance acquisition The Kindergarten Teacher, which she says is the most important and challenging of her career to date.

If we're used to seeing adolescent minded men in these types of growth resistant situations, Laggies's Megan has an awful lot in common with Melanie Lynskey's character in 2012's Hello I Must Be Going (and, to a superficial degree, Analeigh Tipton in this year's Two Night Stand), women with advanced degrees wallowing in an the in - between zone when they realize that they've lost interest in their chosen career or a flailing relationship has stunted their drive.

«We never started and finished any one scene in any one day,» fumes Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, whose character continued Cameron's penchant for strong, resourceful women but also seemed to be an outlet for his collapsing marriage to Hurd — he made Lindsay a shrew willing to sacrifice her marriage to the noble Bud for her career.

And they correctly saw through the advertising hype to recognize that Terrence Howard's work in «Hustle & Flow» created a nuanced and complex character, a pimp who is disillusioned by his life, determines to begin a music career, and through the experience of art, learns new respect for women, and for himself.

He does his actors no favors in The Neon Demon, so while it should be nice that Refn has assembled a cast of mostly women after building his career on tales of rippling masculinity, it's more disconcerting that the filmmaker reduces the characters» conversations to catty chats about sensual lipstick names and the importance of cosmetic surgery.

He's a sweet, endearingly awkward character whose dream to find «a marriageable woman» and brush her hair behind her ear makes an amusing contrast to his new cohort, snakeskin cowboy Tallahassee (Harrelson, approaching a career - best) who's «in the ass - kicking business — and business is gooooood!»

Kelly Reichardt's slow - paced films aren't for everyone — sometimes they're not even for me — but when she taps into her characters» emotions and frailty, the results can be devastating, as in this tale of Montana women grappling with career and romantic setbacks, in a world that's constantly asking them to do and to be more just to get equal footing.

Hollywood rarely writes prominent parts for Asian American and American Indian characters and those roles could have bolstered the careers of women from those communities.»

The two characters, and ex-lovers, are Emma (Elizabeth Healey, «Trap for Cinderella»), an overworked career woman, and Ryan (Keir Charles, «Man Up»), an uninspired artist, who meet by chance one afternoon on the banks of the Thames.

It is a movie which is a skin - peelingly intimate character study and a brilliantly nihilist, feminist parable: what happens when smart progressive career women give birth to boys: the smirking, back - talking, weapon - loving competitive little beasts that they have feared and despised since their own schooldays?

While this tale of three newly - empowered women taking control of their love lives and careers may itself play into some old cliches — there's plenty of footage of Graham's wannbe screenwriter half - naked, for example, — and characters can behave in ways that service the story, rather than reality, it's still worth a watch.

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The Blackthorn and Grim trilogy follows its title characters — a wise woman and her selectively mute partner — from their wrongful imprisonment in a filthy, forgotten hole to their accidental careers as private investigators who specialize in magical mysteries.

She was a likable character, but I found it hard to believe that she could move so quickly from a planned life as a farmer's wife to a career that was very unlikely for a woman at that time period.

In the career mode you get to choose from a handful of people when creating your character and one of them is a woman.