Sentences with phrase «characters scene by scene»

These are pieces that might fit together in a smarter, stronger movie, but director Ken Scott (reteaming with Vaughn after the dreary «Delivery Man») seems to mold the characters scene by scene rather than making them believable and consistent over the course of the story.

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The «awful» scene of the blood eagle in season two was not a cynical attempt to shock the audience: It was about the character's attempt to enter Valhalla by not showing his pain and suffering.

We won't spoil much about the character if you haven't seen the film, but the droid, masterfully played by Marvel veteran Paul Bettany, steals just about every scene in which he appears.

A pivotal scene in 2001's «Zoolander» is when the two main characters, Derek Zoolander and Hansel, decide to see which one of them is the best model by having a «walk - off.»

Through all the «scenes» what we see and hear is a moving mosaic of many scenarios, schemes used and discarded by both central characters as they try to explain the causes of their misery and the forms of their salvation.

It is meager and scattered, as was recently demonstrated to me by my 22 - year - old cousin, and a lot of it I learned through character work and scene study.

It's the same difference between two types of trial testimony: The character reference given by the accused mother being akin to religious persuasion and CSI type hard evidence that places him at the scene, with the victim's blood on his hands and a video of him doing it.

This basically mirrors the scene in Mission to Mars between the characters played by Tim Robbins and Connie Nelson, whereby the death of one leads to a void whereby the other is willing to act in a heroic and self - sacrificial manner.

One scene I enjoyed was when Farrell's character was being talked at by the work psychologist.

The chapter is preceded by a graphic picture of the judgment scene, clearly showing the characters who participate in it.

While Ewumi's character in #HoodDocumentary - that was picked up by BBC Three - had scenes where he swore, he said his faith had since evolved.

They will be drawn in by the spooky nature of the skull masks and calacas - skeleton figures often dressed as famous characters, wrestlers, or in fancy costumes and set into silly scenes.

But it's the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network that is squawking over J.Lo's «Monster - in - Law,» saying it is insensitive to people with food allergies because of a scene in which Jane Fonda's character sneaks nuts into the food of her hated and highly allergic daughter - in - law, played by Lopez.

In particular, I could spout entire scenes and exchanges between Queen Bee Regina George and my favorite of favorite characters, the pink track suit wearing wannabe BFF «cool mom» played by Amy Poehler.

This scene casts men as the nursing mother's overlords and sexualizes breastfeeding by making it part of the female character's flirtation with Brolin's character.

Reactions were gauged by how long the babies focused on the scenes and characters.

Together with Christian Theobalt, leader of the research group «Graphics, Vision & Video» at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, they could solve another problem: with their method, they can display people in full even if they had been partly obscured by other characters in a movie scene.

In every scene, the film's cutting is dictated by the turbulent pace of the characters» inner lives.

By the time Stiller's character engages in a slapping fight with a pair of monkeys, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian has incontrovertibly established itself as an endeavor designed to appeal solely to small children - which is undoubtedly a shame, given the strength of the cast and the promise of the movie's early scenes.

The higher frame rate has some perks — CG characters appear more solid — but they're outnumbered by the drawbacks, most notably a queasy smoothness to chase scenes, quick pans, and aerial shots.

What we didn't realize was that the scene we cut, which is the confidential strategy meeting between Schultz [played by Christoph Waltz] and Django on the road to Candyland, is the scene that really solidifies that Django is playing his character all the way.

Our indifference towards Neeson's character is compounded by the scene in the log cabin.

Characters set their weapons down before entering areas they and we know are overrun by zombies; they hide their desires from each other just so the director can milk fake tension from a scene; they run and jump and all sound the same.

The arguments start to wear on the audience as much as the characters, and by the time we get to the scene in which Ben's mother (played by the invaluable Susie Essman, of «Curb Your Enthusiasm») Explains Women To Him in a tidy little monologue, even he has to admit that «that's a little reductive.»

The best idea — in fact, a brilliant idea — was casting Will Ferrell as the title character, a klutzy supervillain who vanquishes the good guy (Metro Man, voiced by Brad Pitt, whose part is fairly small) in the first scenes and then gets bored.

«Very Bad Things,» written and directed by the actor Peter Berg, is about as funny as the character who winds up a double amputee in its closing scene.

Oh sure, the «estranged dad vs. embittered daughter» material is supposed to be the meat of the meal, which is why we're treated to so many extra scenes of people chit - chatting by firelight, but the dramatic push should come from the kidnapping story, and that chase just gets shoved into the background whenever the characters feel like conversing — yet again.

By the the last scene fades, you are immersed in the inside emotional world of the characters.

~ Spoiler ~ I absolutely loved the scene with Ernie, who is so bent on getting Danny a date for the prom that he ditches a date (with a character played by the gorgeous Jennifer Tilly), runs halfway across Hollywood and winds up picking an older and slightly plump prostitute for Danny to take to the big dance.

The key to his character is found in his first big scene, in a nightclub frequented by Nazi officers.

«Lucy» is a combination of the title character's superhuman powers and a standard gangster melodrama, the former given life by a gorgeous series of psychedelic images and imaginative, fantasy scenes, while the latter exhibits groups of Taiwanese thugs with AK - 47's, a drug mob that kidnaps people and forces them to work as drug mules by implanting whole plastic bags of blue powder into their stomachs.

A decent character study whose main strength lies in two great performances by Foster and Harrelson, who shine in a sad story that deals with the psychological consequences of a terrible job, but the film also suffers from some tiresome pacing and unnecessary scenes.

The film's filled with inconsequential scenes and supporting characters who add useless atmosphere or by - the - book diversity.

Even though other characters appear from time to time, Barracuda is a two - hander, with one extraordinary scene after another (the script was written by Cortlund).

In this image released by Disney - Pixar, character Hector, voiced by Gael Garcia Bernal, left, and Miguel, voiced by Anthony Gonzalez, appear in a scene from the animated film, «Coco.»

This image released by Disney - Pixar shows characters Miguel, voiced by Anthony Gonzalez in a scene from the animated film, «Coco.»

In fact, the film's most powerful moments occur when other characters show empathy toward the boy — most notably in a scene where he is caught trying to dine - and - dash, and his fate is decided by a waitress.

Bonus materials carried over from the previous Blu - ray Disc release, include a documentary narrated by Ed Harris on the issue of space junk that is crowding near - Earth space, and a short additional scene that shows the other side of a radio communication between Sandra Bullock's character and someone on Earth.

As soon as you enter the newsroom (after an opening Vietnam battle scene that feels slightly perfunctory from the man who made Saving Private Ryan) you're hooked, assisted by Hanks who has a peerless ability to make his characters instantly feel like an old friend and mentor.

Keener, who has to deal with a sudden loss during the last section of the film, achieves moments of searing emotion, and in the very last scene, another character figures prominently — a teenage friend of Keener's daughter — and the performance by Mikey Madison is one of the most eloquent in the film.

This is Schrader at his sparest; characters rarely look warm — the cinematography by Alexander Dynan («Dog Eat Dog») accentuates the wintry bleakness — the camera rarely moves during scenes, silences and awkward pauses abound, and the score by Brian Williams is used sparingly, but always effectively.

An Amazing Fps game with Amazing graphics... Also the most violent game I've ever played plus with the realistic graphics it makes it gruesome... The aliens (Stroggs) like to experiment on humans, people are shown with parts of their face torn off, intestines hanging out, there is a scene where you can see your characters legs being sliced off by a bloody saw while strapped down, limbless people are attached to machines, some strange experiments like that, Do nt play this game if you are a little kid or some idiot thats going to copy what you see in this game...

But Kubrick, working from a script by Vladimir Nabokov, squanders the promising setup by suffusing the movie's midsection with a series of rambling and downright pointless interludes, with this particularly true of virtually everything involving Sellers» aggressively off - the - wall character (ie there are too many scenes, including one in which Quilty pretends to be a cop, that meander to an infuriating extent).

Its smartness comes shining through despite the claptrap (none worse than the parade of sex scenes, soft - porn variety, whose noisiness is exceeded only by their unconvincingness); its story, littered with intriguingly repellent characters, like Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen), local evil tycoon, grows ever more enticing.

This image released by Columbia Pictures shows characters Benjamin, voiced by Colin Moody, left, and Peter Rabbit, voiced by James Corden and Cottontail in a scene from «Peter Rabbit.»

You'll have tears of mirth rolling down your cheeks one moment, when Renton is forced to make an emergency visit to «the worst toilet in Scotland», and you'll be devastated at the utterly tragic loss experienced by the characters a few scenes later.

The music in this film has a masterpiece atmosphere that controls characters» feelings scene - by - scene but the cinematography and jump - cuts is also a masterpiece that nobody would ever find a British film with a masterpiece cinematography like

This image released by Columbia Pictures shows Rose Byrne with characters, from left, Mopsy, voiced by Elizabeth Debicki, Flopsy, voiced by Margot Robbie, Benjamin, voiced by Colin Moody, Peter Rabbit, voiced by James Corden and Cottontail, voiced by Daisy Ridley in a scene from «Peter Rabbit.»

So much so that «Insurgent,» based on the young - adult series by Veronica Roth, features not one but two scenes in which a nominal villain is executed point blank with a bullet to the head by a nominally righteous character.

Clooney proves again that he knows how to direct intelligent films that rely on a great dialogue, and this intriguing character study is gripping from the first scene to the last, centered on a brilliant political battle and with an intense performance by the always fantastic Ryan Gosling.