Sentences with phrase «even sympathetic characters»

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The main characters remain sympathetic even while being parodied, and despite working on behalf of a totalitarian regime.

So, my message is that even when scientists are played as comic characters, everybody likes them; you like them, they're sympathetic, they're not played as foolish, they're played as sympathetic.

Because Vivian is such a powerful and increasingly sympathetic character, I created three outfit sets revolving around independent career women who, like Vivian, are tough enough to carve out their own space in the world even when they feel as if they are all alone.

She's little more than a spoilt brat who treats everyone around her with contempt, even her loving father, Considine, the only remotely sympathetic character in the film.

We get junk like Thomas being cast as the villain even though he's the most sympathetic character onscreen, which happens in spite of the fact that he's drawn as a caricature of an overstressed, overambitious urbanite unable to cope with the countryside he has come to visit.

Even films about the supernatural need sympathetic characters.

The most fascinating aspect of New York Confidential is that there isn't a sympathetic character in the bunch; even Anne Bancroft as Lupo's maladjusted daughter is a bit on the obnoxious side.

Somewhat similar to American Beauty, and it has a nice message, even if not one of the characters is really sympathetic... kind of like life sometimes.

I hope that Prime 4 delves into Sylux's character, in a non-intrusive and well - done manner, perhaps even a sympathetic portrayal of Sylux's origins that at the very least shows Sylux is not completely evil.

Even science fiction intrudes in the ruminations of a computer in a sympathetic cop's patrol car; these musings stand in, perhaps, for the missing Gorin character, but disrupt the film's tone.

Although her English accent occasionally sounds forced, Linney manages to make her character sympathetic and understandable even when she's at her most controlling and overbearing.

Director Martin Scorsese was voted by the group as Best Director for his smash hit movie The Departed, while Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) was named Best Actor, and Helen Mirren (The Queen) continued her march to the Oscars as she was named Best Actress as both actors brought characters to real, and even sympathetic, life.

Although Allen's self - centred male characters have often been paradoxically sympathetic, the director here repeatedly fails to even acknowledge the awfulness of his lead.

Defiant & gutsy, ultimately moving but never completely sympathetic, she has no problem in holding your attention and neither does winner - of - ever - award - going - this - year Allison Janney who completely inhabits mother - of - Tonya LaVona to the point where you can't even remember that this is the woman who has brought to life countless other strong female characters over the past twenty years.

The characters are sympathetic and likeable, even while being genuinely rough and intimidating.

What separates «Ex Machina» from all those other movies about the potential dangers of sentient A.I., however, is the addition of Gleeson's character to the equation, because it uses Caleb's humanity / moral compass against the audience to make you sympathetic towards Ava even though virtually every film about robots has taught us not to trust them.

However flawed, brooding, and even cruel he may be, overall Tom is a sympathetic, attractive, and even admirable character.

The narrative, then, becomes «even bad cops can be good if you dig deep enough,» and the movie bends toward this narrative from the moment when Willoughby — perhaps the movie's only truly sympathetic character — enters the room and forgives Dixon's racism after the «nigger torturing» gag.

There's nothing funny at all about this scene — it's just sad, sick, and revolting in a way that dehumanizes the characters and their situations to the point where we can't find them amusing, or even the least bit sympathetic.

Fiennes is both menacing and surprisingly sympathetic in the more fleshed - out role of Francis Dolarhyde (even if he's far from «ugly,» as the character is often called); Philip Seymour Hoffman is amusingly schlubby as skeevy tabloid reporter Freddy Lounds.

Conveying Irina's desperate insecurity as she becomes aware that her younger lover Trigorin (Corey Stoll) has fallen in love with the winsome Nina (Saoirse Ronan), Bening makes her character fully sympathetic even when cruelly insulting her aspiring playwright son Konstantin (Billy Howle).

Of the younger actors, Michael Angarano makes for a sympathetic protagonist even when his character errs, Mary Elizabeth Winstead aptly plays an upperclassman dream girl, Steven Strait makes his conflicted Warren Peace more than a one - note villain, and Nicholas Braun shows off some fine comedic timing as lightly - glowing Zach.

The action is so brisk and kinetic that you may not notice the social insights that the Safdies have so shrewdly tucked into the margins of their story: Nick and Connie may have had a rough upbringing, but the Safdies are not so sympathetic that they overlook their characters» undeniable privilege and the even more marginalized people they exploit along the way.

Even so, the characters we do get to spend time with are likeable (if not at first, ultimately so) and reflect some identifiable and sympathetic pang of regret or disappointment.

Then again, he's not particularly kind to his New York characters, either — even Kline, who finds lovely grace notes in a sympathetic character, feels shunted aside in the back half of the movie.

The one instance of a sympathetic character within the bloodshed is Benjamin (Basil Wallace), who helps former child soldiers recover, but even he becomes a victim of the violence.

The theory, by the way, is contradicted by at least three other characters, who either have no knowledge of Keller's wrongdoing or, when confronted by the extremity of it, turn their back on it (Even in their limited roles, all of them, especially Franklin and Nancy, are more sympathetic and complex than Keller).

Even though the daughter, Lydia (Erin Moriarty), is beyond her teenage years, her arrested development gives Gibson's character a chance to become a sympathetic, hardened father figure.

Even Simone, who was introduced as dangerous, became a very sympathetic character once we learned her backstory.

The sympathetic characters and their adventures make me want to read the next book in the series, even though the plot is at times a little unbelievable.

I love and envy Mr. Quick's ability to make even his most minor characters real, original and sympathetic.

[T] he plot development is spot - on, the characters sympathetic and well drawn (even the villainess), and the denouement richly satisfying.»

Edward might choose the worst imaginable moment to reveal the secret from his past to his wife, Holly, but he remains a sympathetic character, even when his failings are most obvious.

The characters were not very likeable and even Charlotte who was the most sympathetic character was a bit boring.

Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

Heck, even the main character from Detention was sympathetic enough for me to care about her and make me want to help her overcome her troubles.