This human quality adds to the sense of empathy we are solicited to
feel for his character who, at a young age, unwittingly became involved with the dark citizens of the afterlife.
Not exact matches
The undeniable fact that Jesus loves ALL mankind seems to be lost upon many
who profess to follow Him, while the fact that He came to deliver us from the bondage of «natural» desires, those carnal impulses which contradict the spiritual nature
for which we were created, seems lost on many others without regard to any principles of
character which conflict with the principle «if it
feels good, it must be right».
I would reject as uncalled
for and unsound the skepticism of those scholars
who hold that we have no trustworthy indications whatever as to the
character, the teaching and the career of Jesus of Nazareth, but I would be inclined to agree that there are not many particular points where we can
feel absolute assurance, We can be sure that Jesus said a certain kind of thing, but not that he said just this thing or that.
We
felt for the guy like the Emilio Estevez
character in the 1985 film The Breakfast Club, the wrestler
who duct taped the butt cheeks of the non-athlete in the locker room to please his domineering father.
Hey SoOpa AeoN you got a cool but yoy don't talk cool at all along with rkw.I didn't like the way Chicarito's name was rubbed in the mad and what pains me is that you all think Giroud is better.The fact that you are a team reject does not mean you aren't good enough or can't be world class.Do you want me to name a few rejects
who have become world class or have come back to haunt their teams.If I was to choose between sticking with Giroud or Chicarito
for thousand years we all know
who people would go
for.The over hyped average players in our club is unbelievable and it's just sad.The club is also over hyped at times and we
feel like we are so so big.It's a shame.The mentality of this club is so so bad and trust me with this
characters success will be far away
for centuries to come.
They might be having a discussion with a friend
who's talking about an achievement, and women with this
character trait, instead of just being happy
for that other person, may
feel uneasy because the attention's being directed elsewhere.
Lang,
who earned his stripes on «The Bill», «Casualty» and currently juggling scripts
for three series, including the hit crime drama «Unforgotten» and a forthcoming Netflix production, adds: «The rule of thumb is that a third of the
character is you, a third is people you know, a third is made up, and it's that final third where true empathy can hopefully be
felt.»
When researching the production about an ideological MP constrained by the machinery of politics, Michell
felt compelled to contact Nick Clegg,
who he claims is a «great model»
for the Trebell
character.
«We wear denim
for every woman
who has been catcalled,
for every woman
who has
felt the terrible shock of an unwanted touch, with every woman
who is afraid to walk alone at night,
for every woman
who kept quiet about her assault because she feared people would question her
character instead of questioning the criminal,» remarked McCray.
«We are seized by the
feeling of déjà vu occasioned by the resurrection of one dim
character masquerading as Cynthia Whyte,
who had in the past served as the spokesperson
for a notorious group that had all along shown its hand to be going after the life of former President Jonathan.»
But males
who really identified with their
characters in the sexist, violent games didn't
feel as much empathy
for the victim,» said Brad Bushman, co-author of the study and professor of communication and psychology at The Ohio State University.
For those of us
who actively seek out positivity and serenity in our lives, these thoughts seem extra threatening because they
feel so out of
character.
Grace / Julie is a fully complex, almost twisted,
character that you don't want to sympathize with because sometimes it
feels like she's just a little whiny about her very perfect life and a boyfriend
who just loves her to pieces, or at least loves the person she's made herself be
for him.
Gluck,
who directed but did not write Easy A (2010), also directs here, and he again shows a
feeling for interesting supporting
characters.
Made
for those
who feel the Planet of the Apes movies are too intellectually taxing, this adventure dials down the
character depth and emotional complexity while ramping up the genetically modified primate aggression.
If irresponsibility and a lack of trust or deep caring between anyone is the grounds
for good humor, then Bojack Horseman does it infinitely better (The difference is that in a cartoon show about vacuous Hollywood types there are
characters who feel like subjects
who can care rather than just targets
for cynical jokes).
The
character, his dialogue, quips and in - jokes are as funny and bloody - bad - taste as before, creating goodwill and
feeling of warmth
for a
character who is anything but.
It artfully uses the alien
characters as engaging stand - ins
for countless teenagers
who, rebelling against pressures to conform,
feel like beings from another planet.
While the Walking Dead is a bunch of
characters (
who nobody cares whether they live or die) sitting around talking about their
feelings and
who should be in charge
for 8 episodes (with an occasional zombie forced in,
for no apparent reason), Z Nation actually shows a full world view (with more than Walking Dead ’s
I'm not one
who insists that moves all be warm and fuzzy, but it would be nice to at least be able to
feel something
for any of these
characters.
Efron,
who reportedly exercised himself down to 5 % body fat, plays up the «swimming Bad Boy»
character for laughs, though as the film progresses you do begin to
feel a little affinity
for him.
Drama, tension, unexpected humor...
Characters who you
feel empathy
for, but
who can frustrate you at the same time... It's messy, harsh, all too human stuff, and this is what makes «Rabbit Hole» such a compelling watch.
A Single Man Tom Ford's adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel, about a gay man grieving over the death of his lover, is a bleak, intelligent film that serves as a showcase
for what may be Colin Firth's finest film performance, the ultimate elucidation of the
character he has been playing, in one form or another,
for years: The man
who feels too much to allow himself to show it.
Closer to the point is that it's impossible to really
feel anything
for characters who can not die; impossible to
feel tension or fear
for things that can not be harmed.
Carrey's performance strikes new notes of bitterness both apt
for a
character who's grown surly in the way of people
who don't progress
for one reason or another, and «meta» -
feeling, given that the actor's essentially landed back at square one after decades of struggling to branch out, though it's important to note that Carrey himself instigated the project and that, whatever frustrations he may have about typecasting, he attacks the role with gusto.
The most memorable
character, however, is King Candy,
who's the ridiculously over the top and punn - y leader of Sugar Rush (though he may
feel a bit too familiar to the Mad Hatter
for some).
Kira also gets to deliver a fiery speech to a group of women that
feels right out a women's lib playbook of the early 1970s era, though, while an amusing scene, it
feels wildly out of place
for the
character who had never shown an inkling of resistance to the patriarchal society of apes that takes place in the future (i.e., her past).
Zach Braff's hyphenate debut Garden State seizes on that wilful misreading, offering up a Girl, Interrupted
for boys featuring a lead
character fresh from The Bell Jar: an over-medicated, under - emoted man
who just wants to
feel something, damnit.
Ultimately, it's a sort of
character study, «a complete portrait of a man — one
who can be commanding, weak, funny, loving, cold, single - minded, selfless and selfish — and by the end of the drive, you
feel like you've known Ivan
for years.»
Jake Abel will play another
character named Ian,
who has his own
feelings for Wanderer.
If not
for the fact that the same actors are playing the same
characters, one really could look at this movie as its own entity (The screenplay may have been co-written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt,
who also wrote the script
for the first film, but it often
feels as if the
characters have been transplanted into the screenplay
for an unrelated story — perhaps one written by the other co-screenwriters Christian Gudegast and Chad St. John).
While the casting of Crispin Glover as a disassociated loner
who discovers he has the power to talk to rats is sort of inspired, «X Files» expat writer Glen Morgan's Willard suffers (and yes, I
feel silly
for saying this) from a lack of
character development, a forced psychoanalytic structure, and a sort of inbred Comic Book Guy fondness
for self - reference (i.e., the majority of the bit
characters have animal names — a sort of thing used best in Landis's An American Werewolf in London and Dante's The Howling: Mrs. Leach, Mr. Garter, Janice Mantis, George Boxer, and so on) that grates.
With that said, the movie does have its incidental strengths, chief among these being a sharp cast that plays these small - town
characters with real
feeling, including Rosemarie DeWitt as a possible romantic interest
who, in some ways, serves as Steve's Jiminy Cricket and challenges his motives
for spreading the gospel of fracking.
You'd think that the diverse sort on whom he trains his lenses would be found in New York or Chicago, but no, even in a community that you could virtually count on your fingers and toes, you have a group of sad
characters who for one reason or another
feel lost, even suicidal.
For Variety «s «Actors on Actors,» Hong Chau and Diane Kruger sat down to talk about inhabiting characters who've experienced loss, feeling like they're meant for a particular role, and mo
For Variety «s «Actors on Actors,» Hong Chau and Diane Kruger sat down to talk about inhabiting
characters who've experienced loss,
feeling like they're meant
for a particular role, and mo
for a particular role, and more.
When it doesn't, it
feels as if he's overcompensating
for the weak, routine material that comes with his
character — a scared guy
who's desperate to get out of the fight, keep his job, and maintain his family obligations (His daughter, played by Alexa Nisenson, has a talent show later in the day, and his pregnant wife, played by JoAnna Garcia Swisher, is three day past her due date — one guess as to how the movie's climax plays out in between the fight sequence).
Clocking in at just a smidgeon over two hours, it doesn't
feel long at all, with good use of
character development, not only
for the human
characters, but also
for the dogs,
who all have varying personalities that make them easy to distinguish once you get to know them.
Norrell —
who is by turns achingly overwhelmed, marvelously tried, or fallibly villainous —
feels like a
character Marsan has been waiting
for; he answers the challenge marvelously, creating a complex and deeply human scholar whose relationship with celebrity is as thorny as his relationship with magic.
Allen is clearly coasting here, with a screenplay that relies on obvious wordplay
for its alleged cleverness,
characters who repeatedly say exactly how they're
feeling at any given moment, and a directorial style that brings to mind the stage and camera blocking of a play captured with a single camera.
I am not remotely in the camp that views the Coens as technically adept nihilists
who feel little or no compassion
for their
characters.
While many love stories never delve much deeper than the initial attraction and union of two people
who must overcome obstacles to finally come to equal terms, The Painted Veil differs by starting out with an uneasy union, with
characters that have many conflicting
feelings for one another at varying times, never quite able to come to a mutual understanding of what they mean to each other.
Perhaps the film needn't have encroached close to the three - hour mark to tell its tale, as side
characters played by Cuba Gooding Jr (Daddy Day Camp, Norbit),
who portrays «Mr. Untouchable» Nicky Barnes, and Kevin Corrigan (Superbad, The Dog Problem)
feel more like pit stops
for character contrast than crucial
characters to push the plot forward.
There's a decent supporting cast, with Ben Whishaw as a Copenhagen bachelor attracted to Lili (
for a long time it's not clear if he knows she's still a man underneath) while the Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts does his handsome best to bring to life a
character who feels he's been invented especially
for the film — the childhood friend
who once found Einar so attractive he kissed him, but whose romantic attentions are now firmly fixed on Gerda.
The first half of the movie took you through a range of emotions, thinking everything from her being a self - centered bitch, to
feeling sympathy
for her sadness, to rage at cheating on her new husband, to pity on a
character who was hellbent on self - destruction.
The romantic spark between the two
characters feels real, as Stone shines with the glow of someone
who's just been recognized
for the first time as her true self.
It isn't simply that her voice comes out clear and her
characters feel tailor made
for her; there's a sweetness in both films that was absent from Baumbach's previous efforts — a desire not just to present flawed people
who were often unlikable but show that these deeply flawed, often unlikable people can also be lovable.
So my new year's wish is that
for X, actors substitute Greta Gerwig,
who made sure, in Lady Bird, that even
characters as peripheral to the action as Stephen McKinley Henderson's mournful high school drama teacher
felt like full human beings
who could have wandered in from, or off to, their own movies.
The casting of Trudi Goodman as a coke - snorting pedophile
felt particularly inhumane, though not as mind - boggling as the beeline Michelle Monaghan made
for the exit at the end of the film (those
who've read the book tell me her
character has been considerably dumbed down), leaving Casey Affleck sitting on a couch wondering if kindergarten - cop duty is just punishment
for the ethical exactitude he showed earlier.
Relating to
characters onscreen is necessary not merely
for us to
feel seen and understood, but also
for others
who need to see and understand us.
Hammer Bro: It's not fair i saw it only 12
characters (mario, luigi, peach, daisy, wario, waluigi, toad, koopa, shy guy, and kamek) are playable i'm about to cry everyone
who at least wanted me, dry bones, and koopa kid to be playable say aie.See why can't i be playable.i'm just as sad as you toadette fans
for toadette not being in the game.I
feel like i don't exist when my last time playable was the same as toadette being playable (mario super sluggers) i'm crying really bad now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! waaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!