Sentences with phrase «character taking the lead»

Surprisingly, though, it's the A-listers like Batman and Superman who stay back to let the secondary (and sometimes more interesting) characters take the lead.

My characters take lead and I follow their direction.

Things do change a lot from this outline when the actual writing starts, characters take the lead, sometimes they go places or do things that aren't planned, and that's okay because it's only a shitty first draft.

Also, since you don't play as Master Chief, your created character takes the lead role in Reach's campaign as well.

Last year saw African - American characters take the lead in a few high profile games.

One of the most popular «GTA 6» fan concepts is the possibility of a female character taking the lead this time.

Not exact matches

The actual character of this person, the course his life had taken, and the values he soon came to hold for the members of the community led also to a new definition of the word «Messiah.»

Both questions lead in the same direction, toward the possibility of a provisional and qualified answer: if the character of happening only once is held to belong to the truth and measure of all things in their very reality, then there is indeed an essence which more than any other satisfies this truth - criterion, and this is the pure essence of time: time taken in itself, or pure movement — movement irrespective of any possible differentiation into the different kinds of movement.

With two of the lead characters both being female, it not only passes the Bechdel test with flying colours, but like 2012's brilliant Brave, it also gives girls an on - screen heroine who is taking control of her own destiny.

She likens Kaepernick to Katniss Everdeen, the lead character of the book series The Hunger Games, in which she volunteers herself to take part in a fight to the death to help save her district.

We've shown incredibly poor match management in games where we've taken the lead, as well as not that much character to come back from going behind.

Mark Hughes's Man City side showed great character to come from two goals down to take the lead against Burnley but a late goal from Kevin McDonald salvaged a well deserved point for the Clarets.

Regarded as one of the most gifted young tacticians in the European game, Thomas Tuchel, who'd taken the reins at the club following Jürgen Klopp «s departure in 2015, seemed to be building a side capable of challenging domestically and in the Champions League, but the former Mainz coach's spiky character clashed with the powers that be, leading to his dismissal at the end of last season.

I feel there could be a shock on the cards here, although United always show tremendous character through adversity, so should Benfica take the lead, I'd expect to see a typically dogged fightback from Sir Alex Ferguson's charges.

Moore took on Batman with the seminal A Killing Joke, a Joker story whose vague and haunting ending had more to say about the character, and his relationship with Batman, than the decades of material leading up to it.

That is, before looking at the ovoid cartoon character and then taking a cookie taste - test, the children's health knowledge was activated when they were asked to choose the healthiest option represented in six pairs of pictures and words — such as getting your sleep versus watching TV, soda versus milk and playing inside versus playing outside — which led to lighter cookie consumption.

Now, a team led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has found that astrocytes, which perform many indispensable functions in the brain, can take on a villainous character, destroying nerve cells and likely driving many neurodegenerative diseases.

This film is under the radar for one reason only: character actors Charles Coburn and Spring Byington step from behind the shadow of the leads and take a bite out of the script themselves, and man, what a bite.

Taking inspiration from the personal life of his leading man (Lustig is a widowed grocer upon whose stories the screenplay is loosely based), Weinstein draws on his experience as a documentary film - maker to conjure a drama rooted in the reality of these characters and their community.

Mainly it's marking time: the characters take a definite backseat to the special effects, and much of the action seems gratuitous, leading nowhere.

Civilization is comprised of little islands of humanity (we call them cliques) and this film takes a look at one such pocket led by a curious individual who hides his persona beneath a paper mache head of some cartoon character.

The plot really takes a while to pick up with very little in the way of dialogue; by the time the lead characters reveal a portion of themselves, it is already deep into the film and it seems late, granted the run time is just under 90 minutes.

But of course, it's Depp who steals the show once again, proving that he's at his best playing eccentric characters like Tonto, and it doesn't take a genius to realize that the oddball Comanche is the juicier of the two lead roles.

Surprise: Tatiana Maslany, «Orphan Black,» Lead Actress - Drama Tatiana Maslany finally got an Emmy nod, and it only took her playing eight characters on one show to get it.

You can take a nice close look at three of the characters» costumes, including one that looks like it belongs to the character played by lead Felicity Jones.

Rather than showing the lead character finding her path of self - discovery, the film must rely on you taking its word for it.

While Christopher Nolan has enlisted a number of A-list stars for his upcoming World War II epic Dunkirk, 19 - year - old newcomer Fionn Whitehead (Him) is set to take on the lead role in his feature film debut, and Entertainment Weekly has released a new image of his character, the young British soldier Collins; check it out here... -LSB-...]

In one of Comic Con's most awaited presentations, Marvel superheroes of all kinds from Iron Man to Ant - Man took over the fan convention recently as leading actors revealed surprises to films that will showcase the characters

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

As the satellite inexorably spins toward its final resting place, the William Hurt character continues his secret personal mission, which takes him from European locations (Venice, Paris) to San Francisco and points in Asia before finally leading him to that mecca of metaphysical motherlodes, the Australian outback.

The film's cast took home the Best Ensemble Cast prize, with Mahershala Ali winning Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Juan, a father - figure of sorts to the film's lead character Chiron, a young African - American male coming to terms with his sexual orientation.

Chris Hemsworth is fantastic as the lead hero (it takes a special kind of man to pull off a cape and metal breastplates), even washing his topless body for the ladies with irresistable charisma, but it's Kat Dennings and Stellan Skarsgard who give Thor's universe its character.

King's humor and absurdist instincts are winning, from a Mr. Bean - by - way - of - digital - effects scene that finds Paddington taking a disastrous part - time job as a barber's assistant to the various shenanigans of the villain, Buchanan, who scours the city for treasure disguised in his old theater costumes, leading Paddington's friends to pin the crimes on a purported gang that includes a nun, a medieval knight, and the Great Expectations character Abel Magwitch.

Still, Jimi: All is By My Side is an interesting curiosity that takes chances and gets at a certain truth about its enigmatic lead character.

Those are your less than fantastic leads — but casting isn't the movies biggest problem — or problems: First of all — it takes so long for «Fantastic Four» to get to the point where the characters get their powers.

According to a 2011 article from The Daily Mail, actor Dan Stevens took to heart the «comments on Twitter about how fat Matthew was looking,» and as the new trailer for Adam Wingard's The Guest suggests, the ditch from whence his character on Downtown Abbey rose led the actor to a Crunch.

Once - promising director Wayne Wang («Joy Luck Club») has taken a «Guess Who» approach to the story by switching both the sex and race of the lead character, possibly because he believes that it lends a modern day edge to the story.

I would say if you take «Taxi Driver» and «Leaving Las Vegas» and throw them together... It's an intense story between my character who is a heroin addict and prostitute in New York and Matthias Schoenaerts, he is playing the other lead.

I'm sure many liberties were taken with plot, characters and actions, but more importantly I believe that linking it with real life tragedy is in poor taste and leads to all sorts of moral ambiguities.

Creator and star Phoebe Waller - Bridge and Sian Clifford, the latter of whom plays the lead character's sister, Claire, do an exceptional job of negotiating the hairpin turns that this slippery show likes to take at great speed.

And with General Okoye fast becoming a fan - favorite character in both Black Panther and her brief appearance in Avengers: Infinity War, it would be great to see her take on the lead role in film about the Dora Milaje.

He takes command of the screen and the rest of the cast follow his lead, adlibbing much of the humor and quirky personality traits for each character.

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.

The lead in Roland Emmerich disaster pic «The Day After Tomorrow» gave him an early taste of bland, big - budget (smash hit) spectacle, though he also auditioned to play the title character in «Batman Begins,» and was briefly lined up to take over the role of Peter Parker in «Spider - Man 2» when health issues / contract negotiations looked to rule out Tobey Maguire — now there's an interesting what - if scenario.

The cast fully takes advantage of the luxury of care for the secondary and tertiary characters with a cavalcade of performances that work just as hard as their lead.

Star Jennifer Lawrence took to Facebook to the release the pic of her character leading the rebellion.

Taking place 10 months after Black Flag, lead character Adéwalé has left the pirate life to join the Assassin order before encountering brutal French slavers in the West Indies.

It's a comedy about the making of a movie as three filmmakers meet in Starbucks, call on their lead actress (played by Eugene Domingo as both herself and the character in the movie) and plan their poverty drama's shoot which will take place in a garbage dump.

LOVE, SIMON Director: Greg Berlanti Starring: Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, Alexandra Shipp, Logan Miller, Keiynan Lonsdale, Miles Heizer, Joey Pollari, Clark Moore, Tony Hale, Natasha Rothwell It's a little shocking to think that it took until 2018 to finally have a teen movie whose lead character is gay.

Many fans are eagerly awaiting the cinematic debut of Captain Marvel, and the fact that her solo movie, which will be set in the 1990s, takes place in - between Infinity War and Avengers 4 have led some to believe that the character will have a part to play in the team - up movie.