Sentences with phrase «characters than female ones»

Action stories commonly feature more male characters than female ones, even when the main character herself is female.

Barratt and Farnaby are also far more assured writing male characters than female ones, with both Davis and Andrea Riseborough (phoning it in as an Isle of Man policewoman) having little to do but look on dumbfounded.

Not exact matches

Even though only about 9 % of female characters have names in the text, there are more than one hundred «eleventy» (111) women's names that are preserved.

The film must contain more than one female character; these female characters must have a conversation with one another; and that conversation must be about something other than a man.

If not an elaborate feminist update, then at least a fully - fleshed - out female character with more than one or two lines of backstory.

Clementine herself has established in A New Frontier that she is more than worthy of being one of gaming's most beloved female characters, displaying a growth and complexity that few female characters in the past have been allowed to have.

There are also two female characters (Ruth Wilson as the Ranger's sister - in - law and Helena Bonham Carter as a one - legged brothel madam) who are here for no apparent reason other than to keep the movie from being an all - boys show.

Male characters again outnumbered female characters by more than two to one.

It's a very male - skewing movie in more ways than one (the female characters are beyond secondary) and you can not argue there is an element of the Academy that falls for those types of films.

Plenty of other female critics, besides me, are flagging the problem, which includes a scarcity of substantial and complex female characters in narrative films, whether Hollywood or indie, that fail to pass the Bechdel test (at least one scene with two female characters who have names, talking to each other about anything other than a man).

Chadwick Boseman was the picture of heroic cool, Michael B. Jordan was one of the best movie supervillains of all - time and Lupita Nyong» o, Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright all got numerous opportunities to shine in a film that was more than willing to let the female characters take on almost an equal weight of the film's action.

Everything about it promises negligibility, and the promise is kept: a less - than - super star (Coburn), a female lead whose potential has scarcely ever been fully realized (Lee Grant), some character actors who stopped getting — or making — good parts some time ago (Andrews, Hendry), a forgettable British sub-leading man who muffed his one big chance (Jayston — Nicholas of Nicholas and Alexandra), an anonymously pneumatic foreign blonde (Christiane Kruger), an English hack with conspicuously unimaginative pretensions to distinction (Hughes), and above all the tiresomely formulaic genre in which doublecrosses are so taken - for - granted by the audience that no degree of geometric complication can do more than increase the boredom.

Mr. Almodovar is such a terrific story teller and visual artist and absolutely no one produces better female characters on film than he.

But I'm also happy that Jackson's Middle Earth is one where more than two named female characters in the entire history of the setting have ridden into battle alongside men.

Eve's character shows that screenwriters Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof can't seem to write more than one decent female character into the film beyond Uhura and resort to literally stripping down the character when they run out of exposition.

One glimpse of her taut, dignified and tougher - than - leather character leading Wakanda's all - female special forces squad known as the Dora Milaje — or as one character gapes, «some Grace Jones - looking chicks» — and anyone who wants to stay alive in the 21st Century will quickly realize they've undervalued Africa at their own perOne glimpse of her taut, dignified and tougher - than - leather character leading Wakanda's all - female special forces squad known as the Dora Milaje — or as one character gapes, «some Grace Jones - looking chicks» — and anyone who wants to stay alive in the 21st Century will quickly realize they've undervalued Africa at their own perone character gapes, «some Grace Jones - looking chicks» — and anyone who wants to stay alive in the 21st Century will quickly realize they've undervalued Africa at their own peril.