Sentences with phrase «driven characters whose»

A character - driven tale of driven characters whose professional triangle trumps their romantic one, Broadcast News (1987) takes place after the fall of the Equal Rights Amendment and before the fall of the Berlin Wall — a time when gender wars and c...

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«It was the boldness of a man whose ego - driven character allows for forcefully denying reality while expecting the public to accept his word.

A former documentarian whose understanding of the human condition often results in movies with realistic and honest personalities, Arcand has seemingly cornered the market in cerebral, character - driven stories in an era when computer - generated explosions fill the multiplexes.

Gosling channels the pain of his Blue Valentine character and pours it into the empty vessel of his Drive persona, creating an aching but deep - down kindly criminal, whose face constantly fights back the emotions it wants to betray.

«For me, it's just cool to be a middleman to some characters that people might relate to,» said writer - director Cameron Crowe, whose characters have included the likes of the quintessential stoner Jeff Spicoli in «Fast Times at Ridgemont High,» the boombox - hoisting Lloyd Dobler in «Say Anything,» the driven agent Jerry Maguire in the movie that bears his name and the teenaged rock journalist William Miller (based on Crowe's own adventures) in «Almost Famous,» for which he won a screenwriting Oscar.

A smart, relaxed, and understated character - driven seriocomic entertainment whose poignance sneaks up on you.

The film ironically drives home this point by making the first captured clone that we see an African American (Michael Clarke Duncan) and bringing in a bounty hunter character, also black (Djimon Hounsou), whose job is to collect and return the escaped clones.

A character whose behavior is just as reprehensible as Maleficent's was in the original, if not worse; one who is driven by avarice and poisonous ambition.

A character never seen, but whose cold - blooded drive to finish the experiment no matter what the cost in money or in safety is perfectly represented by his smooth factotum (Irrfan Khan).

Angelina Jolie plays the titular character, a woman whose betrayal sets off a drive of revenge and a fierce desire to protect...

I suspect the culprit is the automatic gearbox though — a 6 - speed slush - box whose 3 drive modes (Economy, Normal, and Snow) did little to change the character of its shift programming.

Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.

Annette Drake is a multi-genre author whose work is character - driven and celebrates the law of unintended consequences.

Ubisoft have revealed the release date and price of their upcoming Valiant Hearts: The Great War, a story - driven platformer and puzzler which follows the lives of several characters during World War 1 whose fates are intertwined.

Nier: Automata combines RPG elements with both character action driven combat and a peppering of shoot em up style sections (whose mechanics also get integrated into the character action segments).

Epic Games then moved on to show two real - time, human - driven digitally recreated characters, thanks to the partnership with 3Lateral (whose technology was used for Hellblade, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Until Dawn).

The characters were not written very well, like the writers were worried about driving too much attention away from Ratchet, whose relationship with Clank felt rushed.

«Populated by superheroes whose powers derive from those attributed to the seven gods of the Yoruba pantheon, and characters that debate intellectual history, philosophy, and politics in Black vernacular English, Rythm Mastr channels the diasporic and utopian drive of science fiction and Afrofuturism using the intertextual qualities of the graphic novel and the film storyboard.

Modeled on fabled humanoid characters, whose existence is unsubstantiated to the present, Stewart's cryptid belongs to folklore and science fiction as well as everyday forms of self - generated mythology, such as data - driven consumer branding.

When an entire issue has every appearance of looking like it's steered by emotionally - driven figurative lynch mobs whose goal is to achieve «climate justice» by any means possible, including negating facts from critics through character assassination, you have one very serious problem on your hands.