Sentences with phrase «credited characters in a film»

Not exact matches

You don't have to get far into most feature films to see some impact of money and wealth, but some movies put money front and center as the main feature, almost warranting its own mention as a character in the credits.

However self - aware the film may be, its characters and moods and conflicts are too over-determined and familiar to linger in the memory very long after the credits roll.

Moreover, such rhetoric overlooks one of the film's Asian performers, and its most unsettling character: an extraterrestrial being played by Ex Machina's Mizuno, named in the film's credits as «the humanoid.»

Armed with a screen story and script credited to Ryan J. Condol (Hercules), Carlton Cuse (San Andreas), Ryan Engle (The Commuter), and Adam Sztykiel (Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip), the film is loaded with hammy exposition and handwavy explanations for what is even happening and why characters are doing things at any point in time.

This was also the first time Joseph not only got top billing (his name was even bigger than the director's name in the end credits) but his character completely carried the film.

A dauntingly versatile character actress by the 1980s, Lu racked up several impressive film and TV credits, including her chilling portrayal of the Dowager Empress in The Last Emperor (1987) and her moving performance as natural - born «survivor» An Mei in The Joy Luck Club (1993).

Sony's official cast list states Jennifer Connelly is in the film as a character credited as «Karen / Suit Lady» she presumably meaning she plays the voice of the AI within the Spidey suit.

The twist in Sirk's comedies is that their emphasis is on the situation rather than the resolution, on the problems that divide the characters — all four films are romances of one kind or another — rather than on the contrivances that suggest that all will be well after the final credits have rolled.

«Empire Records» is a microcosm movie, one of those films where in a single day, in a single music store, every conceivable thing happens to every conceivable character, and at the end of the day, they are all a lot wiser, as the endless list of music credits scrolls up the screen.

The film stars Anna Faris (playing a bubbly and ambitious blonde who mirrors her character on CBS» TV show Mom) and Eugenio Derbez (How to Be a Latin Lover) who never develop any believable or even appealing on - screen chemistry — especially not to the degree Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell achieved in the original, given their thirty - plus - year romance lasting long after the credits rolled.

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.

Whenever I see «inspired by a true story» in the credits, I translate that to mean that the idea for the film may be based on a real person, but the majority of the story and its characters are fictitious and made - up for dramatic purposes.

These changes are not huge in themselves, but as the coda that plays over the closing credits reminds us, even the smallest things can have the most unpredictable of consequences — and although the scenes involving mysterious sneeze guru and failed Presidential contender Humma Kavula (John Malkovich), an entirely new character, seem to have little point here, there is no doubt that his rôle is destined to become more pronounced in the inevitable sequels (note the many verbal references to a certain «Restaurant at the End of the Universe» towards the film's close).

As he smooth talks some ladies and has his credit cards denied, it is clear we are watching a character the actor has played before, in far better films.

The film's cast includes the great Brad Dourif, who will once again voice the possessed doll Chucky, as well as some other returning characters, including Dourif's daughter Fiona, who is reprising her Curse role of Nica Pierce, and fellow franchise veterans Alex Vincent, who starred as Andy in the first two Child's Play movies and had a surprise cameo in an after - credits scene in Curse, and Jennifer Tilly, who voiced Chucky's soulmate Tiffany in Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky and was also featured breifly in Curse.

Lynch transfers his own mercurial consciousness to his characters, and his two best films are about being trapped and being vulnerable, though each one has happy intervals of escape, all conceived in musical terms — a song about heaven in Eraserhead and the magnificent celebratory sequence behind the final credits of Inland Empire, a Felliniesque music video staged around Nina Simone's «Sinnerman.»

Of course, most of the accolades will more rightfully go to the main actors, Edward Norton and Naomi Watts (who also receive producer credits), for their brilliant portrayals of two complex, flawed characters who must progress and mature quite substantially, but naturally, in the course of this two hour film.

Those new characters come in all colors and genders, and Johnson, Kennedy and J.J. Abrams — the first to put out a «Star Wars» film with a female protagonist — deserve a lot of credit for that.

Credit goes to Quaid and Grace for never playing any scene in a vacuum, allowing their characters the complexity to express without having to explain verbally, and to grow in their experiences before the film ends.

May I suggest that, aside from its lovingly realized 1920's Broadway backdrop, there is something vaguely Italian about this film: something of Fellini in the way its true artist character (a gruff gangster played by Chazz Palminteri) is willing to die for his art, unlike the weak - willed playwright (John Cusack) who is taking credit for and uncertainly directing his overblown maiden script.

The first film told the origin story of Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange, while also setting up the character's appearance in «Thor: Ragnarok» through the end - credit scene that saw the Doctor meet with Chris Hemsworth's Thor regarding Loki.

The entire film references other comic book films, and pop culture mentions, typically by making fun of them in some way; Green Lantern, joke in the credits, Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice's silly mommy moment, Hawkeye's lack of powers, Josh Brolin's Thanos's two - timing as a character in Avengers: Infinity of War less than three weeks ago, at one point Wade simply calls Brolin's (Cable), «Thanos,» Logan's gags you'll need to see for yourself.

I haven't loved the Thor films nor the Thor character in general, but I give credit where credit is due, and that is to Chris Hemsworth for making the character so endlessly -LSB-...]

The credit goes to Clark Gregg, who both adapted the novel, directed the film and appears in a small role (as the film's only — semi — villainous character).

Credit Mann for making another sleek and often beautiful film, engaging his actors to deliver their very best in roles you're not accustomed to seeing them in, and allowing his characters the complexity they rarely get in action - driven vehicles anymore.

It's not an overly compelling track, especially for a film this studied, but he points out what he needs to point out and assigns proper credit to Bass's contribution to the shower scene as well as to Perkins's work in developing the idiosyncrasies of Norman's character.

Damon is credited in the film as Dickie Greenleaf — the character Jude Law plays in The Talented Mr. Ripley, a film that starred Damon.

Perhaps if the film were shorter (with credits, it's 163 minutes), they might have excised some unnecessary plot threads (mostly involving the inventor who took over the Tyrell Corporation, which made replicants in the first movie) or characters (said inventor, plus many more), or given our heroes (K and then Deckard) a truly worthy antagonist (as was Rutger Hauer's Roy Batty in Blade Runner).

Mostly known as a character actor and supporting player, he first appeared on television in 1954 and made his feature film debut in 1957, going on to more than 200 screen credits.

«Bridesmaids» actress Kristen Wiig, who voiced a sadistic orphanage owner in the first film, is also set to come back for the new movie, though oddly in what seems to be a new role — her character is listed as Lucy Wilde in the «Despicable Me 2» credits, not orphanage owner Miss Hattie.

You have to give the film credit for creating a character in Jeremy — that's Leonard — who starts the movie by seeing that the film's ostensibly nerdy girl, Nora Blake (Cheryl Pollak), is actually kind of cute, but instead of making her turn out to be a Cinderella in disguise, Nora really is a big ol' nerd.

Hoffman's credits have included such character - centric shows as «The Mop and Lucky Files» and the forthcoming Amazon series «I Love Dick,» as well as the film «Ana Maria in Novela Land.»

Patrick, who last played the character in X-Men: The Last Stand, explained that the end credits of the 2006 film revealed how he is able to return.

Moyes credits her work on the script for the film adaptation of Me Before You (due in 2016) for her continued interest in the characters» lives, adding, «It has been such a pleasure revisiting Lou and her family, and the Traynors, and confronting them with a whole new set of issues.

While the main characters in most movies generally survive through the final credits, in a bit of a plot twist, Warner Brothers is intent on killing off Hari Puttar (or at least the name, if not the actual character) even before the eponymously titled, Bollywood - produced film opens in September.