Of course, for Smith, even with Black Panther's death being difficult to believe, he did acknowledge why
the character deaths mattered so much.
Not exact matches
Jesus has every right to point out the shortcomings of his Bride because he proved his authority in that area through his love unto
death, his undying devotion and commitment no
matter what she looks like, and his willingness to be actively involved in bringing out her beauty and maturing her
character.
More insight into Greene's attitude toward
death can be gained by analyzing the
deaths of the main
characters in the novels cited in the Time comment — The Power and the Glory, Brighton Rock and The Heart of the
Matter.
Saoirse Ronan plays the title
character at a fever pitch, earnest and aggressive, as if every moment were a
matter of life and
death.
Of course, this is the type of fact - based film that probably would have benefited from taking more dramatic license with the material, because some of the sensational events that occur (including one
character's supposed
death) are presented so
matter - of - factly that it sucks the fun out of the movie.
Making
matters somehow more unbearable, in Downtown Stephen King is literally a
character, Giancarlo Esposito is a satyr, and — as box - office watchers of her last ten films will attest — Whoopi Goldberg is
Death.
The movie also succeeds in making the
death of
characters — no
matter how insignificant they are — seem important.
Maybe it doesn't
matter that we're not made to dislike the
characters we see getting killed, so long as some violent
death is depicted onscreen, which is maybe all audiences want — and all they ever secretly wanted.
Vanessa's resurrection means that almost all of the
character deaths in Deadpool don't really
matter.
It's not until the film's final sequence — an extraordinary climax that picks up the slack for what came before — that one is really convinced that the love between these
characters is the
matter of life and
death, of imprisonment or freedom, that it is meant to be.
Deaths happen, often demanding relevance or some sort of emotional catharsis despite the deceased being little more than recently introduced underdeveloped fodder, and when the
characters that do
matter die, the film rushes on without giving the moment a chance to breathe.
Accidentally leaping to your
death results in your
character being neatly placed back to where they were in a
matter of seconds, and most of the puzzles can be fumbled through without much resistance.
Lowe's
character is a deeply wounded woman out to avenge the
death of her husband, and no
matter how much blood she spills, her underlying grief resonates.
It might feel a bit cynical to write off
character deaths because of external factors like franchise potential and actors» contracts, but the MCU is a multibillion - dollar enterprise: These
deaths feel exploitative because they wiped out nearly every young star that
matters, and the MCU can't possibly survive in the long term without reverse - engineering this event.
Accidentally leaping to your
death results in your
character being neatly placed back to where they were in a
matter of seconds, and most of the puzzles can be fumbled through without much resistance.
Taking bribes and extorting
characters can sometimes be a
matter of life and
death (literally)-- and you'll have to decide where your loyalties lie.
The ghastly subject
matter and explicitly gruesome nature of some
character deaths would be disturbing to witness if the grizzly scenes weren't offset by the adorably stylized, bobbleheaded nature of the
characters themselves.