Sentences with phrase «characters in the film choose»

The main characters in the film choose not to engage in the reckless behavior their friends are to instead find comfort with each other, and accept how they're lives have turned out.

Not exact matches

Yet if Anna Karenina is, however loosely, the touchstone for To the Wonder, then we must take to heart the moralizing of the character Konstantin Levin who declares in the film that «Sensual desire indulged for its own sake is the misuse of something sacred which is given to us so that we may choose the one person with whom to fulfill our humanness.»

A number of these characters have decent chances at dying in the next film, but choosing which will die first makes the decision a lot tougher.

Keira Knightley has claimed she rarely chooses to act in films set in the modern day because «female characters nearly always get raped».

Having all just finished college, each is deciding on what path to take in life, and its Jim who has chosen the most shocking path for the group of friends as he has chosen to ask his girlfriend Michelle, the infamous flutist of the first two films (the wonderful Alyson Hannigan, which, ya know, she is so good in it, we did nt need the other girl characters, which is sad to say, but eh, this was always about the guys so who cares?).

Sarah's insistence that Zeev is in a position to choose between the mission and attending her concert makes for a particularly maddening through line, as this oversimplified disagreement is all the film will tell us about these two characters.

Clint Eastwood wisely chose a strong, simple thriller for his first film as a director (1971), and the project is remarkable in its self - effacing dedication to getting the craft right — to laying out the story, building the rhythm, putting the camera in the right place, and establishing small characters with a degree of conviction.

Simon is one of the ugliest characters in Allen's films (which may be why Allen chose not to play the role).

Mulan is a very likable character and all the side characters are all very well done comedically and are some of Disney's most memorable characters, and we all know what character we all love in this film Eddie Murphy does one of his funniest performances in this movie and Mushu is just one of those characters that I think Disney just chose a perfect actor to play this character.

Every tale needs some kind of good guy, and lucky for Woz, he seems to have been chosen as the Noble Character in this film.

The disc is packed with extras, including some deleted scenes that add very little, a blooper reel and a featurette detailing how Wonder Woman fits in with Batman and Superman as a DC flagship character that are all fairly throwaway, but there are a few neat production featurettes that detail how director Patty Jenkins approached making what could have been a potential disaster given the negativity towards the DCEU's previous movies, and also interesting effects details about the lighting, costumes and the chosen colour palette that may not sound like much but actually prove to be quite enlightening about the whole filming process.

This is all very subtle, in a way not found in recent film dramas, which choose instead to telegraph every reversal and layer the musical score over every character beat.

Speaking to Variety's chief film critic Scott Foundas, Mann discusses growing up in Chicago, becoming interested in crime stories, the visual ideas he had for the film, the nonfiction book he discarded but still credited, the influence of real criminals and past films (particularly his eye - opening time shooting The Jericho Mile in Folsom Prison), choosing Tangerine Dream to do the score (a decision he still second guesses), the film's writing (including basing characters on real crime figures), casting, explosive stunts, changes made from the shooting script, and the modernist narrative.

The next time someone chooses to make another house under siege film, let's hope that the director chooses to do what so very few have done before — give us some character development before putting them in front of a loaded pistol.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12 year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor Swift).

Just like one of the characters in the film, Siri is so unsure what to do, he chooses to «burn it» down, hoping that all of these techniques he employs will make is blind to the fact that there really isn't much of a compelling story here.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

Simien's film takes place at Winchester University, a predominantly white, prestigious university where we're introduced to six significant characters: Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the biracial activist who overcompensates her blackness; Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams), the black homosexual who lives in an all - white residence building, and feels little sense of belonging; Colandrea «CoCo» Conners (Teyonah Parris), the white - washed blogger who acknowledges racism yet chooses to ignore it in fear of non-acceptance from the white majority; The Dean (Dennis Haysbert), who has worked hard his whole life solely to over-emphasize his superiority and intelligence towards white corporate men, specifically the president of Winchester; The Dean's son Troy (Brandon Bell), who spends his college career doing things to make his father happy and impress the white majority; and Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner), the privileged, ignorant son of the President of Winchester.

Solid look at how the X-Men came to be - Stellar Cameos - January Jones looks rockin» in go - go boots Cons: - The original X-Men were not used - Some of the dumbest characters were chosen for this film - Azazel» action sequences couldn't hold a light to Nightcrawler» in X2 - The action overall felt held back and the film lacked any «real» edge - The ending was too predictable and too conveniently wrapped up Impressions: Matthew Vaughn is an incredible director and Brian Singer has done solid work with this material.

She follows the advice of her late mother to «have courage and be kind,» a phrase that is uttered so often in this film that, if you chose to play a drinking game where you drank a shot each time you heard it, you'd be dead before the main character got transformed for the ball.

Whilst the characters on screen navigate the class dynamics of colonial life; choosing to adopt certain characteristics of their European colonisers in order to advance professionally and socially; the film itself reflects a growing trend in mainstream cinema of dealing with African themes using traditional Western narrative structures.

In a time when films are able to create increasingly outlandish creatures, the director always has to choose the route they'll go for major alterations in character appearancIn a time when films are able to create increasingly outlandish creatures, the director always has to choose the route they'll go for major alterations in character appearancin character appearance.

I chose to give him the benefit of the doubt and chalk his demeanor up to his character, as he does display some actual genuine emotion in a turning point scene with his father (the always brilliant former Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins, whose slightly autistic coin collecting father is really the stand - out here in a film supposedly about two youngsters in love), and he certainly looks the part.

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige explained how they chose Tilda Swinton for the role and why the character will be «very androgynous» in the film.

Ever since Jake Gyllenhaal starred in the criminally underrated film Source Code, he has been choosing truly dynamic and complicated characters that push the boundaries...

While the literary fans will most likely be split as far as how Yates and Goldenberg have chosen to adapt the Rowling opus, fans of the movies can finally have something to smile about, and one can only hope that future film versions will continue this new trend on sticking to the basics to tell a story in an appropriately cinematic fashion, leaving the side stories and whimsical superfluous characters better left to the realm of the richly - developed book forms.

Despite outward appearances, Fracture isn't quite the fast - paced legal thriller that one might have expected from the film's promotional materials (there is, in fact, only one courtroom sequence of any real significance); screenwriters Daniel Pyne and Glenn Gers have instead crafted a story that generally has the feel of a low - key drama - with Gosling's character ultimately forced to choose between his ambition and his morals.

It is hard to choose a standout performer within the film as each one embodies their character to a fascinating degree, their essence felt in every line, quip and insult that gets spattered throughout this hellish middle - class gathering.

In the process, he gives us a film with a keen knowledge of and wisdom about these characters and the world in which they have chosen to livIn the process, he gives us a film with a keen knowledge of and wisdom about these characters and the world in which they have chosen to livin which they have chosen to live.

But as the film progresses, Vigalondo reveals the wild card up his sleeve: this is less a monster movie and more a character study about the so - called «nice guy» in town (Jason Sudeikis) becoming unable and confronting the failure of his hapless dreams and choosing to wreak havoc instead.

While it bears many of the thematic and stylistic hallmarks that made Rudolph a reliable figure on the»80s indie scene with such films as «Choose Me» and «Trouble in Mind,» this mannered character study comes across as more affected than affecting.

Finally, the film concentrates on the moment when the four main characters cause enough friction with each other that they need to either let go, or get sucked in to more despair; once the friction is resolved, so is the segment of the story Williams chooses to tell.

Even when a character's status as a writer feels incidental to the plot at hand — such as in 2016's Hush, wherein the heroine's writerly profession comes into play mainly as justification for her later resourcefulness — the fact that such a vocation was chosen at all tends to shift the viewer's dynamic with the film in fascinating ways.

While most of those movies relied on high - octane effects and a multitude of characters led by one or two big name stars, San Andreas amps up the levels of CGI action, though chooses to focus most of its attention on just the one troubled family, led by man - mountain Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson in perhaps his biggest, and indeed most important film role to date.

In part two of our conversation, fellow sound designers Randy Thom and Chris Foster pose questions to Walter, we discuss the state of cinema sound before and after Apocalypse Now, why film school can be a good idea, and how you can underline a character's emotional state with carefully chosen sound effects.

It is a notably unsettled experience for the audience, as director Robert Greene chooses to anchor the film on a sort of framing device, opening the film on Kate in wardrobe on the day she will shoot her climactic scene, and then constantly revisiting it as she builds her character.

But as soon as you're there, you'll see why this picturesque spot was chosen as the location where Julia Roberts» character meets her love interest in the popular film, and why travelers continue to flock here day after day.

Price's chosen film medium gives an almost tangible quality to the clay, enhancing the sense of character and creating intrigue around the objects in the videos, more so than if they were encountered in the real world.

For the show, Mike tried to choose the more under appreciated film character in pop culture art.

According to Gaveau, an additional factor in choosing Northern Sumatran forest for the case study was that it is the only place on Earth where all the animal characters of Walt Disney's animation feature film The Jungle Book co-exist.