Sentences with phrase «characters offstage»

But Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore suffers from relying too much on dizzying visuals while shunting the human characters offstage.

Not exact matches

42nd Street (Warner Archive, Blu - ray)-- Released in 1933 by Warner Bros., which specialized in snappy, fast - paced pictures with working class heroes and street smart characters, 42nd Street launched a series of great backstage musicals that featured lavish production numbers in a Broadway culture where the depression was a reality just offstage and the dancers were one flop away from the breadlines.

Friedberg and Seltzer give no indication they've actually watched most of the movies they're parodying: the gags, so to speak, invariably involve some character (like, say, No Country For Old Men's Anton Chigurh) abruptly showing up, quoting a few lines from the trailer, and then scurrying offstage before anyone might have to write them something original.

I'm not sure I could have risked what I did with Fenno's character — making him the center of the novel yet keeping him largely offstage for most of the beginning and much of the end — without that example.