Sentences with phrase «deadpan tone»

«They were actually trying to climb in the building,» he recalls in a deadpan tone.

It's a tremendously funny film, due more to its sustained deadpan tone than the deployment of elaborate set pieces or scene - stealing side players.

Director Terry Zwigoff shares his own musical taste in this article about how he went about selecting songs to underscore the deadpan tone of his cult comedy Ghost World.

I suppose that to have done it in a very broad way wouldn't have been too terribly difficult, but I wanted to sustain a more nuanced and subtle deadpan tone throughout the film.

While zombie rom - coms aren't original (see Shaun of the Dead or Warm Bodies), this take on the genre has such a deadpan tone that it feels refreshingly unpredictable.

Shooting the movie as if it were a mix between sincere drama and gothic horror, Jensen finds just the right deadpan tone to deliver his sicko lunacy and also grounds things enough to sneak in some moving drama towards the end.

Jean - François Halin scripted the film, maintaining an utterly deadpan tone throughout; Michel Hazanavicius directed.

Bill Murray's familiar deadpan tones can also be heard in Wes Anderson's deliberately scruffy stop - motion animated take on the Roald Dahl classic.

Not exact matches

If My Boyfriend's Back is an irredeemably silly movie, it has an engaging lightness of tone and uniformly impeccable performances by a cast that maintains just the right attitude of deadpan parody.

It's a strange amalgamation of genres and tones that mixes high drama with deadpan humor and adventure with a dose of unexpected action.

Maquiling creates an unusual and intriguing tone somewhere between sharp, deadpan comedy and a soft, dreamy surrealism.

As Lucille, in her restrictive gowns and with her deader than deadpan voice tone, Chastain sinks her teeth into the considerable scenery.

The tone is as deadpan as Plaza's demeanor, but just as rich, in a script that bubbles with wit as well as profanity.

Their interactions are marked by a tone so deadpan that behavioural norms eventually fall off the map and a different type of universe is conjured — one in which murder is simply a practical solution to a flesh and blood problem, and nothing you wouldn't do a for a friend.

The assured, ironic tone of the presentation cements the comedic approach, with the laughs flowing from the deadpan introductory sequence.

The film's general strangeness, deadpan humour and dreamlike tone capture the bewildering events that follow as she goes to live in a witch camp.

It's a simple but eloquent character study, starring non-professional playing (almost) himself, and strikes a sweet, deadpan, oft - melancholic tone.

Alan Tudyk brings a tone - perfect deadpan to his greeting of Jyn Erso, flatly intoning, «The captain says you are a friend.

In Chicago, an uninviting, poker - faced Grossman allows Davis to play a song, only to tell him in a deadpan, matter - of - fact tone: «I don't see much money here.»

Or maybe not, because while initially it struggles to establish a consistent tone, as soon as the plot kicks off in earnest, the film picks up speed and confidence, venting plumes of sight gags, bloody violence and deadpan, dead - on cultural observations like powdery snow from a thematically - appropriate metaphorical snowplow.

The film is played noticeably straighter in tone and humour than Anderson's previous deadpan efforts to the point of settling into an overtly laconic rut that struggles to extract even a titter, let alone a wry chuckle.

Coover nails Mark Twain's tone and voice (including the hilarious malapropisms) but, more than that, evokes the deadpan dark humor and social commentary that made Huck's Adventures infinitely superior to Tom's.

After recently seeing the film The Lobster with Colin Farrell in, the similarities in tone between Jim's deadpan voiceover here and the film's own is frightfully uncanny.

His writerly tone managed to combine deadpan delivery and almost impish enthusiasm.