Sentences with phrase «dramatic character for»

Not exact matches

For viewers of Showtime's series «Billions,» the character Wendy Rhoades, an in - house hedge fund psychiatrist played by Maggie Siff, may seem to be a dramatic invention.

But now she's free to trade her «prison of freedom» in Trump Tower for Washington, D.C.. It's dramatic timing, but the FLOTUS character said she's committed to make the best of it.

For the careful reader, foreshadowing creates a particularly effective form of engagement, ultimately moving into the territory of dramatic irony, where the reader knows more than the characters in the story.

The curse in the film creates a striking visual for the shackles that our character flaws or attitudes can lock us into and the dramatic effects and harm that this can cause to those around us.

Jean Paul Sartre's character Pablo Ibbieta, in the short story «The Wall,» would have no dramatic impact, and the story would never have been written, because persons in Ibbieta's position would invariably have learned from God that the Ramon Grises of this world had moved back to whatever was the analogue for them of the gravedigger s shack.

From its first draw of blood onward, it bolts down a foreseeable slasher - movie trajectory, laying on thick the dramatic irony while constantly inventing new reasons to punish its characters for old iniquities.

Mudbound requires a taste for leisurely storytelling generally more focused on building careful nuances and layered characters than on big dramatic cymbal clashes.

A deep plot and dramatic, and interesting characters, make Psycho - Pass: Mandatory Happiness a must - have for any fans of the original series and of visual novels.

As for Clooney, he has been stripped of the self - deprecating character tics that made even his dramatic roles in «Michael Clayton» and «Up in the Air» such joys to behold; here he plays someone so closed - off he's virtually inert.

The film's strength is dramatic stakes for its complicated, easy - to - love characters, which renders the downbeat ending genuinely audacious.

While it does feel like a step backwards in some cases, it does allows for a far more dramatic experience and believable storyline where you can actually feel the intent of the characters and get invested in them and their lives.

If nothing else, the film is pretty entertaining, and when dramatic highlights come into play, glimpses into what could have been sparks brightly enough to help endear, maybe not thoroughly enough for the final product to reward, but decidedly enough to hold a fair deal of your attention in this improvable character study.

A character actor with a knack for playing blustery Southerners and military men (comic and dramatic), Chris Ellis was, appropriately enough, born and raised in Mississippi.

It's a good character for Dangerfield, one that veers him away from the «I don't get no respect» pathos that comes too easily to him, and enough attention is paid to the minimal plot to integrate Dangerfield's classically constructed one - liners into something like a dramatic situation.

True Blood returns with too many new characters, not enough time with the characters I like, a general evasion of the most prickly parts of last season's finale, and some plodding hints at a lumbering dramatic direction for this season.

In Little Accidents, the town is perhaps the most important character, creating a perfect background for the action as it unfolds towards a dramatic climax.

She's known as a very talented character actress, who directors love to cast because of her amazing talent for both dramatic and comedic roles.

A delicious combination of idiosyncratic character drama and increasingly violent and violently absurd comedy, this Netflix title opened the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance this year and is an assured debut for Blair, the star of Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin and Green Room.

Johnson and Heyman have a script here that deserves Best Original Screenplay consideration, almost simply for how well they've created a quartet of characters (Burrell and Wilson's supporting players don't behave as these sorts of characters would in other films), though the balance of both comedic and dramatic emotion is tremendously done as well.

For example, in «Before Sunrise» and «Before Sunset,» every conversation was made dramatic by our wondering if the two characters were going to fall in love, and admit it, and act on that.

Reynolds was to show her dramatic chops again some 40 years later as the difficult title character in Albert Brooks» Mother, for which she was lauded with a Golden Satellite Award, a Golden Globe nomination and an Online Film & Television Award nomination.

The period of the creation of the atomic bomb seems like one ripe for dramatic storytelling, but a bit too much of this show comes off as overly scripted, more manipulative than character - driven.

Even in the deep dramatic films, we've found there's a real concerted effort to look at empathy for dark subjects and the characters in them.»

Because he's really just a secondary character in a story with inherent dramatic and historical tensions that don't have much do with him, Enders makes for an awkward protagonist.

Every single character is given that over the top comedy feel to go for the laughs, stripping it of any dramatic heft it could have had.

But after drifting along with the aimless young characters for a while, the story takes a dramatic turn and major incidents begin to pile up: deaths, near - deaths, and disappearances.

The Paper Mario games are famous for it's over the top and dramatic stories and having the most unique characters in any Mario.

Nichols» script draws inspiration from Nancy Buirski's celebrated 2011 documentary the Loving Story and invents some peripheral characters for the sake of dramatic expediency, without weakening the emotional wallop of the film's understated final act.

Since then, Brittany has continued to make a name for herself through a variation of roles that range from psychotic dramatic characters to bubbly romantic comedy leads.

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.

Let's be clear: the characters of The Big Short are constructs with no dimension beyond their surface quirks and McKay, who has the chops for ensemble comedy and visual humor, hasn't any idea how to stage or shoot a dramatic scene.

While I do think, from a story standpoint, it's a shame that Garrigan wasn't limited to being a mere witness to the events of the Amin era, as he was portrayed more in the book, instead of a constant catalyst for Amin's rage, considering he is a fictional character, we'll just chalk up his constant missteps as dramatic license taken by the screenwriters in drawing out Amin to commit some of the most heinous acts of torture shown in film this side of a Mel Gibson directorial effort.

Bill Hader stars as the title character while also making his directorial debut on this half - hour comedy, which promises to give the former SNL star a showcase for all that dramatic range he's previously uncovered in movies like The Skeleton Twins and episodes of Documentary Now!.

Either the screenwriters don't know what abandonment issues are, or they randomly swapped in a different backstory for this character to make it more «dramatic.»

Metal Gear is known not only for its deep characters, but also for its dramatic and powerful death scenes.

10:24: Taraji P. Henson is named top dramatic actress for Fox's «Empire» and hands out cookies, a salute to her character.

As well as Boogie Nights works as a drama — and it certainly gets dark and dramatic as things go bad for its characters — it's even more successful as a comedy.

Although this gives Moretz a different type of dramatic arc (although one similar to the remake we'll see her in later this year), this also means the franchise's most interesting and kick - ass character is sidelined for nearly the entire film.

It's a dramatic gesture meant to set the stage not just for the character but for the audience as well, usually done in a way that's meant to be somewhat shocking.

A thrilling interpretation of the dramatic realities of the times and a reimagining of what wartime must have been like for one of literature's most famous and compelling characters, a story of all - consuming passion and ambition set in war torn Scotland.

In his review for The Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, «A superhero movie whose characters have integrity and dramatic heft, filled with engaging exploits and credible crises all grounded in a vibrant but convincing reality, laced with socially conscious commentary as well as wicked laughs that don't depend on snark, this is the model of what an involving popular entertainment should be.

It's not really all that dramatic, but after the studio made such a big deal out of the character's appearance in «Iron Man», Jackson basically wanted to make sure that he was going to be taken care of financially on a long term basis, and that the studio weren't taking it for granted that he would just show up whenever they wanted him to show up.

For all his many accomplishments, Altman sometimes doesn't know when to stop underlining dramatic points, or exposing the silliness and vanity of his characters, or piling on miniplots.

In an effort to remain succinct, there is also a good hearted American president, a brilliant scientist, the slimy advisor, a few potential love interests and a couple of other random civilians given to us for more dramatic impact — which lands mostly on your ass as you sit for an extra 45 minutes in the theater due to these characters.

For a while, Neeson played quiet, bookish types or conflicted, dramatic characters.

Just as Pekar is the narrator of his comics, as well as a character, so is he in this film, although Paul Giamatti (Planet of the Apes, Big Momma's House) plays Pekar for the film's dramatic elements, and quite well, I might add.

Composite characters, plot devices, dramatic license, and artistic flourishes are understandably necessary in the effort to condense and create an entertaining final product fit for ticket buyers.

Its storytelling moves backwards, forwards, and sideways across the Naruto Shippuden timeline to fill you in a bit on the character's motivations, but largely assumes you already know them and is presenting them for dramatic effect.

The suspension of disbelief needed to sell the dramatic parts of the story is undermined somewhat when characters react in a blasé fashion to, for example, being shot.

The searching, restless quality of his films and his characters, the desperate desire for love, is a core human quality, which Wong's characters simply express in more eccentric and dramatic ways than most, and Wong matches their inventive romantic gyrations with an equally exaggerated, expressive style.