Sentences with phrase «emotional stakes right»

In the same year, 300 beat X-Men and Superman at their own game, proving that if you can't get emotional stakes right, you at least needed amazing looking action.

Not exact matches

She specializes in training organizations on the «why» behind language that works, and brings with her a passion for uncovering the right thing to say when the emotional stakes are high.

Moon at first played like basically a cross between 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris, right down to its white - dominated production design, until it gradually began to stake out its own distinctive thematic and emotional territory.

The «Deadpool 2» team wanted to ramp up the film's emotional stakes as high as possible right off the bat.

Godzilla gets a lot right, hiring excellent actors even in bit parts to sell every inch of the story, focusing on characters, the emotional stakes of the leads and even embracing the atomic - age fears and allegories that the Toho Studio films utilized while putting a modern - spin on them — the casualties and cost of life within such disasters (there is a 9 / 11-esque disaster - porn tinge to the film, but it's certainly not as thoughtless as it is in «Man Of Steel»).

What it gets right on paper is immediately apparent: Casting hot - ticket stars against type as crestfallen romantics struggling to cope with mental illness provides two attractive but ostensibly vacuous mainstream celebrities (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) the enviable opportunity to prove their worth with conspicuously «revelatory» performances; meanwhile, the fundamental seriousness of their characters» respective arcs, with Cooper hoping to control the outbursts caused by his bipolar disorder and Lawrence attempting to overcome her grief over her husband's recent death, raise the emotional stakes considerably, elevating largely light material from rote comedy to overtly «adult» drama.