Sentences with phrase «central characters who»

The bitcoin book also enumerates the course of bitcoin from the point of view of several central characters who had a big role to play in scripting its success story.

Gemma Arteton and Idris Elba have been busy at work filming for their new movie, «A Hundred Streets», in London.The new movie focuses on four central characters who live out their lives in parallel within...

The film has three central characters who take turns narrating portions of their collective story in flashbacks: After being arrested for murder, Lila (Patricia Arquette) begins by saying, «I'm not sorry.»

[Kerrigan] accepts the challenge of central characters who do not let us know what they're thinking.

With her fifth novel, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), James creates a central character who is quite different from the detached Adam Dalgleish.

(His latest, which also happens to be opening this month — «Golden Exits» — also features a central character who's an archivist sorting through the letters, photographs and documents of his late father - in - law's life.)

It's Got: Clever, snappy dialogue, superb acting, and a central character who is deliciously odious.

Eye - popping, smartly written, and with a central character who still has a hero's journey ahead of him.

This smart riff on the Coen brothers» 1996 classic Fargo is is a blend of wonderfully offbeat black comedy and much darker themes involving a central character who seems to be mentally unstable.

As the satire weaves in and out of Paul's whiny and stodgy life, an heir of unlikability befalls the central character who is used to bridge the gap between the audience its world.

She says that the thing she loved most about writing Eye Contact was creating a central character who was as much of a mystery as the perpetrator of the crime; she also comments that 20 % of Americans currently identify themselves as disabled, «an enormous group of people that has been underrepresented in books, movies and TV»; so her next book will be a mystery centered around a woman with cerebral palsy who is the unlikely center of a love triangle and the victim of a crime committed in its wake.

Much, although not all, of the material for this exhibition was drawn from the Judge Dredd comics — a dystopian future - vision that focuses on a central character who dispenses an authoritarian, immediate and violent form of justice.

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In a piece entitled «The happiness of pursuit», in Time magazine July 2013, we read: «All human beings may come equipped with the pursuit - of - happiness impulse — the urge to find lusher land just over the hill, fatter buffalo in the next valley — but it's Americans who have codified the idea, written it into the Declaration of Independence and made it a central mandate of the national character.»

How to be the kind of person who can stand up to life, face its difficult challenges and hardships, and carry off a victory in quality of character and useful living — that central problem confronts us all.

And Paul's view of man's condition (and in its essentials his is the central biblical view) can not be declared false, for all its mythical character, so long as it is the only view of man which takes adequate account of this inescapable reality of human experience: On the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of them.

In the movie Memento (released in 2001) the central character, Leonard Shelby, sustains a blow to the head from an intruder who has already raped and killed Shelby's wife.

«My character is a patriot, and he believes that the Olympics are war,» the comedian says of his TV alter ego, the self - aggrandizing, jingoistic spawn of Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter who hosts Comedy Central's The Colbert Report.

It is a novel, in which the central character is a Fleet Street journalist who is given the task of covering the financial collapse and liquidation of Woolwich Arsenal in 1910.

The book is written in a question - and - answer format and features a central character, Angus the Answer Dog, who addresses basic queries about starting school, including what a teacher does and what you can find in a preschool classroom.

Kinnock, who made it clear in the Labour leadership contest he was no supporter of Corbyn, was equally scathing in his assessment of the play's central character.

But one of its central characters is based on crusading U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (left), who made a name for himself with his relentless pursuit of public - corruption cases, taking down some of New York's top elected officials in the process.

The central character, Temudjin Oh, is an assassin in its employ, who comes to question whether the Concern is, as it claims, dedicated to improving humanity's well - being, or instead something altogether nefarious.

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Youth In Revolt is the sort of film that perhaps asks too much of the viewer, there is different things going on around the central character of Nick Twisp, played by Michael Cera, who we finally see a glimpse of a different sort of

There's ultimately something oddly hypnotic about Mirage, as filmmaker Hajdu has infused the proceedings with a deliberate and visually sumptuous feel that's heightened by the mystery surrounding the central character's very existence (ie who is he?

The central character, Ed Pekurny (Matthew McConaughey), is an amiably serene, aw - shucks rube who is plucked from obscurity by a fledgling cable channel called True TV and made the star of his own round - the - clock, this - is - my - private - reality show, a kind of marathon solo version of The Real World or An American Family.

The film is anchored by two excellent central performances; normally known for stand - up comedy, Dave Johns as the titular character delivers solid work in his film debut but it's Hayley Squires as the single mother of two who finds herself in some devastating circumstances that truly captures your heart.

The three central characters are all blandly pretty faces who give continuously stilted line readings and never convincingly embody their respective mythic archetypes, so it's up to the old pros to pick up the slack.

The characters are an entertaining group of misfits, of particular note is central protagonist and narrator Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with aspirations of stability, and of happiness in his life, but who is utterly unable to survive without «one more hit», the violent and psychotic Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who refuses to take heroin but makes up for not doing drugs by «doing people» instead, and the childlike Spud (Ewan Bremner), the innocent fool of the group, and the most vulnerable to peer pressure.

Before any abduction takes place, «Difret» introduces its central character, attorney Meaza Ashenafi (Meron Getnet), a confident woman who heads an organization in Addis called the Adinet Women's Lawyers Assn. that successfully advocates for the rights of women and children.

Surely, then, there must be a reason that the story veers away from that subject on a seeming whim and mostly ignores the characters who turn out to be central to the movie's final lesson.

Final Verdict: The Edge of Seventeen lives and dies on its central character, who is thankfully written and performed incredibly well.

Jennifer Merin: French director Olivier Assayas certainly has is way with female characters, and the three who are central to the story in Clouds of Sils Maria are exquisite examples of his understanding, compassion and observational skills.

The movie also features a number of great character actors in early roles, including David Paymer and Ed Begley Jr., although none do so much with so little as James Hong, who shines in an amusing sequence as the co-pilot of a puddle jumper transporting Vince and Sheldon to Central America.

Based on the journalist Lynn Barber's memoir of her sentimental education at the hand of an older charmer and scripted by Nick Hornby, this soft - edged exercise in nostalgia is worth seeing for its rich array of sharply drawn characters led by Carey Mulligan, who received a deserved Oscar nomination for her sweet, smart, sexy central performance.

In her first major screen role, Daniela Vega, who plays Marina Vidal, the beleaguered central character in Chilean director Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman, elevates even the most mundane action — petting a dog, lifting an arm to activate a motion - sensor hallway light — into a gesture of minor majesty.

Fleshler and Anthony Carrigan, who plays Goran's right - hand man, NoHo Hank, are scene stealers, but they can come across as downright cartoonish compared to the show's grim central character.

Re-teaming with his «Edge of Tomorrow» (a.k.a. «Live Die Repeat») director Doug Liman, Cruise plays Barry Seal, a real - life character who ran drugs, guns and money between Central America and Arkansas in the late 1970s and early»80s, while also working for the CIA.

Collie is the central character, the one who retains the ability to decide what he will and should do.

Namely its central performance from Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who carries this understated character study that rather uneventfully charts a workaholic woman's mildly difficult navigation through the denial that her marriage is over.

And despite the extensive secondary cast of cameramen, sound techs and story editors, the film manages to develop well - rounded central characters, some who of become almost likable in spite of themselves.

The central character is Ann, played by the astonishing Margot Robbie (from The Wolf of Wall Street), who ends up in a bit of a love triangle after two different men show up.

In Moonlight, adapted from an unpublished playscript by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Ali plays a drug dealer called Juan who acts as a father figure to the central character Chiron.

Assembled is a group of actors with sharp capabilities, in particular with those who play the four central characters.

The not - entirely - sympathetic central character aside, the movie also deserves recognition for its unexpectedly intimate focus on Vinny's close - knit Rhode Island brood (whose outrageousness Younger claims to have toned down for the movie), from his devout Catholic mother Louise (Katey Sagal) who can't bear to watch his fights to his fiancé - berating sister.

In Porco, however, the film focuses on a Humphrey Bogart - like seaplane pilot who, although afflicted with a curious porcine curse, is nevertheless the central character.

The central characters are a bunch of tourists who happen to be in Russia when the alien invasion begins.

And while we still have no idea what species of dinosaur will take center stage, or how (or if) they'll interact with humans, or who the lead characters are, we do have a better idea now of what other themes will tie into that central premise.

Given the fascinatingly complex, ever - evolving central relationship it's no surprise that there's little room for substantial supporting characters, although Ben Whishaw pops up as an admirer of Lili's, while Matthias Schoenaerts plays Hans, an art - dealer and old school - friend of Einar's who provides Gerda with some much - needed masculine comfort — and the audience with the prospect of a conventional romantic resolution.

Mahershala Ali in particular is striking in the role of father figure Juan, a man who helps the young central character, Little (Alex R Hibbert), navigate his difficult childhood.