Sentences with phrase «character in a tangled»

The building is cast as the central character in a tangled narrative which reflects Johannesburg's magnetic pull on the social and mythical lives of those who come to this place from all over the country and all over the continent.

Not exact matches

Poignant character moments and some impressive use of pop music make Under Pressure a better episode than Tangled Up In Blue, but still nowhere near the lofty heights that we know Telltale is capable of.

Tangling his flawed characters in fear, guilt and sacrifice, Perelman depicts a property dispute between an Iranian military colonel who has fled the ayatollahs and come to America (Ben Kingsley, superb) and a young woman who possesses the self - esteem of a heroin addict (Jennifer Connelly).

It's also a class in editing, keeping the various characters and plot threads consistently engaging and never allowing them to get tangled.

As the characters» lives begin to unravel because of their poor choices, they get tangled in the attached consequences.

Corman directs from a script by Howard Browne, who was a reporter in Chicago when the real event occurred, that takes in the big picture and charts the stories and trajectories of over a dozen characters tangled in the plot to kill Moran.

Those are all fair questions, and many of them have since been addressed in films like «Shrek,» «Tangled,» and «Jack the Giant Slayer,» to name a few of the characters involved here.

When I learned that Tangle would take place in an adjacent setting and revisit some of the same characters, I was uneasy about the prospect of yet more anthropomorphic musings — worries that were justified right out of the gate, as the book's framing device is a man telling the novel's story to a squirrel, and getting some cheeky squirrel answers in return.

Set in 1973 Williamsburg, the crime drama sees Ballers» Troy Garity as the titular character who has a knack for memorizing numbers and avoiding crime — until he gets tangled in the affairs of his cagey father - in - law, played by Paul Sorvino.

The tangled storyline continues throughout, and this wouldn't be so much of a problem if it didn't get in the way of character development.

Characters with impossible wishes appear in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ratatouille and Tangled.

Circles are predominately used to form the art within this world, the natural world itself (Note how the storm clouds in an early scene are tangled masses of thin, swirling lines of various shades of gray), and frames to outline characters and scenes (notably a shot of the witch's owls, which are designed with round heads, attempting to crack a circular window and another showing the orb of the witch's eye fitting neatly into the outlines of a eye - shaped peephole).

The characters and the ballooning scope of the story, as well as the moral and ethical tangles they put on display, put us in mind of the hallowed HBO series The Wire, which focused its final season on journalism (partly in the person of McCarthy, who played an ethically compromised reporter).

Hoskins and Schaub, who had no inkling that anything was ever amiss at their idyllic high school, serve as ready - made characters through which «Keepers» director Ryan White («The Case Against 8») can sort through a story that is painfully tangled up in broader, awful details of ritual rape and a coverup by both church officials and local police.

Pryce's character believes Toby to be Sancho, Quixote's fictional squire and sidekick, and together, they find themselves tangled up in adventures, exploits, and more than a few duels.

As the rogue CIA agent who gets tangled up in a conspiracy plot to assassinate the president of Mexico, Sands is not only the most important character in the film, but he's the most interesting one as well.

Adults won't read hard texts voluntarily — not because we lack character, but because we've had too many frustrating experiences trying to learn from texts that were simply too difficult, had too many unfamiliar words, and had complicated sentences that seemed purposely tangled in an attempt to frustrate us.

In these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door of one story and into the next, love is «dirty» - tangled up with need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasIn these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door of one story and into the next, love is «dirty» - tangled up with need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasin which characters walk out the back door of one story and into the next, love is «dirty» - tangled up with need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasy.

Marie Force, a New York Times bestseliing author, shines at creating living, breathing characters and tangling them in a believable, scintilliating plot.

The new trailer showed off the Monsters Inc. world, the Tangled world and the Toy Story world, as well as showing us what enemies and forms we can expect to see the main characters in whilst you're exploring these areas.

The enchantment fades when you get to the first story interlude, where your character becomes tangled up in Devil's Snare.

In previous entries the worlds had felt empty and were only home to a select few characters from any given film, and to better demonstrate this new focus, Tai Yasue showed the castle town from Tangled with Sora running around, interacting with various NPCs.

The trickster coyote character of Native American folklore has met his match in this floral double, «Coyote Stories,» Mourning Dove, a bouquet of flexigrass and love - in - a-mist tangled around one another in a way that is at once playful and violent.