Sentences with phrase «character roles in the movie»

The final chapter of that boat's life is a number of men who apparently had title character roles in the movie «Deliverance» showed up and took the boat off my friend's hands.

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Many of us relate very deeply to characters in movies, and we like to think that we share similar traits to the actor or, more importantly, to the role they play.

This movie came out of the gate with controversy for whitewashing the role of the «Ancient One» — a character who had been Tibetan in the comics, played in the movie by Tilda Swinton.

He suggests that we are receiving our role - models on how to be a man from the Hangover movies (too fun - loving), from the hit song «Blurred Lines» (too sexually confident), and from Ryan Gosling's character in «The Notebook» (too passionate).

They also appeared in the movie My Neighbor Totoro playing the role of dust balls in an abandoned house, where the main characters were moving.

Carrey played the role of Kaufman in the movie, and continued the feud with Lawler, while he spent 80 straight days in character as Kaufman.

Whether kids put on their favorite Superman costume, or get to build their own lightsaber with a set, many children like dressing up in costumes to role play their favorite movie and television characters.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

His roles have included some of the most memorable characters in movie history.

Images and sounds of the characters Nathan Fillion has played in voice over roles in cartoons, TV, movies, video games and more.

The production is slick, the Maine scenery is bracing, the characters are well - acted, and in a mumbo - jumbo movie with a few loose ends, the makeup central to the plot and applied by Greg Cannom and Bob Laden to Robert John Burke in the leading role is most admirable.

Because Altman himself effortlessly swims in a sea of friends and associates, he finds it easy to make movies that do the same thing, and what's amazing is not how many characters there are in «Nashville» (more than 25 significant speaking roles) but how many major characters.

The same goes for the fact that the Black Panther is the only character that the MCU seems to think needed a test - run introduction (via a supporting role in 2016's Captain America: Civil War) before getting a movie with his name in the title.

The character has progressed significantly since his 2016 standalone movie, but Cumberbatch just isn't as convincing as everyone else is in their respective roles.

A movie with the bleakest vision of Wolverine yet, but also hands down the best treatment the character has received on the big screen in the fifteen plus years Jackman has inhabited the role.

Though often consigned by Hollywood's typecasting system to workaday villain roles, Kenneth Tobey has not be forgotten by filmmakers who grew up watching his horror - flick endeavors of the 1950s; he has been afforded key cameo roles in such latter - day shockers as Strange Invaders (1983) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and in 1985 he reprised his Thing From Another World character in The Attack of the B - Movie Monsters.

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

However, unlike silent star Marsh, Parker's characters usually enjoy a satisfying «worm has turned» moment — one of her first major film roles was as the abused wife in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) A more self - reliant Parker was seen in the 1990 AIDS - related TV movie Longtime Companion, as the supportive «earth mother» to a group of urban homosexual men.

During the»30s he played high - energy, gregarious leads in many «B» - movies and second leads in major films; later he moved into character roles.

The enjoyment comes from the two masterful Method actors, the introspective Brando - like Sean Penn searching for the truth about his role and the more instinctive Nicole Kidman playing to the exotic foreignness her character conveys in a rather prim way, as they play their frustrated oil and water would - be lover roles without even touching or expressing any love except through quiet sighs (a restrained a romance as there ever was in a movie).

The Russos also said they're big Kendrick fans, though they aren't so anxious to see her in the role that they're going to work the character into the next supersize Avengers movie.

It looks like Sony is aiming high for the lead role in Bloodshot, the first offering from the studio's shared Valiant movie universe, with The Wrap reportedly revealing a wishlist of actors to play the title character.

Never in a million years would I have guessed that the same filmmaker might turn around and make something like Tangerine, his punk - as - fuck portrait of a much seedier L.A.. It's not just a total creative 180, but kind of the opposite of a sell - out move: Trading a formulaic story for an unpredictable one and a slick Indiewood aesthetic for a gorgeous, radical lo - fi approach, Baker trains his iPhone camera on the kind of characters — black and transgender prostitutes, immigrant cabbies — that the movies rarely acknowledge, let alone put into starring roles.

Saoirse said she was shocked recently when a close friend auditioned for a role in a movie where the female character was described as «the leading man's type».

While I can understand why people do nt like Michael Cera, I thought he did very well in the role and I was glad to see him playing against type, since movies like Youth In Revolt have shown that Cera is more than capable of playing characters other than the stereotypical nerdy, awkward guin the role and I was glad to see him playing against type, since movies like Youth In Revolt have shown that Cera is more than capable of playing characters other than the stereotypical nerdy, awkward guIn Revolt have shown that Cera is more than capable of playing characters other than the stereotypical nerdy, awkward guy.

Hollywood legend Michael Douglas admits he hadn't heard of his character Hank Pym in new movie Ant - Man until he started researching his role by...

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.

As we get closer to Ender's Game and more people hear about the movie, it wouldn't surprise me if people see Abigail Breslin's name and immediately picture a Valentine the same age as Breslin's character in Little Miss Sunshine, the role that got her a Best Supporting Actress nomination in the 2007 Academy Awards.

Evangeline Lilly will be reprising her role as Hope van Dyne (aka The Wasp) in the upcoming Marvel movie Ant - Man and the Wasp and she just revealed a first look at her character's costume!

Real - life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who doubled for Uma Thurman in «Kill Bill» and Lucy Lawless in «Xena: Warrior Princess») and Tracie Thoms (whose role would have been played by Pam Grier or Samuel L. Jackson in any other movie) deliver great performances throughout their half of the film, but it's Kurt Russell who walks away with «Death Proof» as Stuntman Mike, yet another excellent addition to his rogue's gallery of classic characters.

Instead, the more «out - there» character work is given to Kate McKinnon in a role so daffy that she will likely be seen as stealing the movie for a sizeable percentage of the viewing audience, as well as for Leslie Jones, who isn't as hilarious in a more earthy character, but I do think she offers more to the comedy than Ernie Hudson had been afforded in his stint as the non-scientist member of the quartet, Winston, in the first two original movies.

That is the Rock (WWF star Dwayne Johnson) and he plays the title role in this prequel to the «Mummy» movies, giving us the background of the character who appeared briefly but memorably in the second one as half - man, half very large bug.

But this is Jackman's signature role, the one that will forever define his career, and after playing the character in six movies (and two cameo appearances), you can't begrudge the guy a protracted farewell.

Stone has rarely been successful with female characters in his movies, and although Woodley is a talented actress, the role is little more than a variant on the stereotypical wife or girlfriend always telling her man to be careful and railing when he shuts her out.

It's a choice that proves instrumental in transforming Poppy from an irritatingly gregarious figure into someone that the viewer actively wants to see succeed, with Hawkins» ingratiating, downright immersive turn as the character undoubtedly playing a significant role in the movie's success.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead gives a very good lead performance in a character role akin to Ellen Ripley in «Aliens», and carries the movie well as it progresses.

Of all of Hemsworth's movies in the past two years (of which there have been maybe 3,000), this is his most boring role for it how it knocks him back to character basics, and then ditches him.

Years after the failure of a «Jonah Hex» movie (starring Josh Brolin in the title role), DC has opted to lend the character to The CW for their upcoming «DC's Legends of Tomorrow» series.

Jackie Earle Haley ventures far from earlier roles to play a pedophile in «Little Children» — one of the least likable characters in recent movies.

«Homeland» star Morena Baccarin has nabbed the female lead role in «Deadpool», an action movie based on the Marvel character.

One - dimensional characters are bound to show up in a movie like this, but not when they serve such an integral role in the film.

Morena Baccarin has nabbed the female lead role in «Deadpool», an action movie based on the Marvel character.

Continuing with the formula they've established of taking typically male - dominated genres (raunch comedy, buddy action movie) and inserting a dominance of women into the primary characters, this one sees McCarthy take on the role of Susan Cooper, a well - trained CIA agent who has spent her time in the agency as the desk - bound partner in the earpiece of well - groomed field agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law).

None of the characters in this movie have proper names, but it is not giving too much away to say that Jennifer Lawrence plays the title role, exclamation point and all.

Despite his enduring role in pop culture, numerous attempts to do the Hulk justice on screen have left fans more angry than the Green Goliath himself and Marvel's only attempt to build a solo movie around the character didn't fare much better.

These stories exist in the same universe and feature the same cast of characters (with most of the supporting players of the first movie taking on ancillary roles in this one).

This is her first real movie role since 2008's «The Women» (voicing a character in «Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore» doesn't count).

2 role as Ego, the Living Planet was revealed early on in the build - up to the movie, the role Sylvester Stallone is playing has been kept under wraps - but an movie news website in Italy now claims that Marvel Studios has named the character.

Even James Spader fans will come away mostly empty - handed in an under - written role as the stuffy companion, leaving us with but half a good movie, and characters we bailed out on around the time of their first copulation.

His new partner in the movie is played by Bruce Dern, who distinguished himself in all sorts of character roles, usually as a psychotic, before finally graduating to leads.