Sentences with phrase «female central characters»

About 77 percent of the books boys check out have only male central characters, 14 percent have female central characters, and 8 percent have both male and female.

With this data in mind, McIntyre says adults should be more intentional in exposing kids, especially boys, to books with female central characters, and school libraries should actively consider gender and race in selecting books.

Previous studies found ratios of male - to - female central characters in picture books of 1.5:1 to 2:1.

Five feature a female central character.

The director is Niki Caro, who rose to fame with Whale Rider, another film with a determined female central character, and the film is adapted from Diane Ackerman's book of the same name.

The director is Niki Caro, who rose to fame with WHALE RIDER, another film with a determined female central character, and the film is adapted from Diane Ackerman's book of the same name.

She often makes females her central characters, exposing all their faults and unique beauty.

Not exact matches

Jennifer Merin: French director Olivier Assayas certainly has is way with female characters, and the three who are central to the story in Clouds of Sils Maria are exquisite examples of his understanding, compassion and observational skills.

Which isn't to say that the film doesn't boast plenty of powerful and often disturbing sequences (it does), nor that its mostly - female cast don't deliver a forceful ensemble performance, with Natalie Portman exceptional as the traumatised but driven central character, biologist Lena.

Showing little confidence in what should have been its central character (Leem Lubany) it relies on Bill Murray's seedy Kabul - stranded talent manager, Bruce Willis's grumpy merc, and Kate Hudson's career prostitute to tell a supposed story of female emancipation.

It's just rare that there are two movies where the central characters are both female, but it seems like a completely different set of emotions that are even going into it.»

The things that make this quite possibly the best in the cheerleader sub-genre are the decent cast, a strong central female character, and the unique sub-plots for some of the secondary characters.

Eden rivals the recent Blue Is the Warmest Color in emotional potency, in addition to this central romantic throughline, we also see the doomed relationships with other impressive, interesting and nuanced female characters, played by Greta Gerwig, Golshifteh Farahani, Laura Smet and Léa Rougeron.1

The other story's central animal characters are: Kaa, the snake (Cate Blanchett); the leader of the wolf pack, Akela (Peter Mullan); the scavenging hyena, Tabaqui (Tom Hollander); Nisha, the female wolf (Naomi Harris), who adopts the baby Mowgli as one of her cubs; Nisha's mate, Vihaan (Eddie Marsan); and Mowgli's Brother Wolf (Jack Reynor).

«I've tried to write female characters where their central story is not a question of whether she will or will not end up with some dude.

Central to the game is a hideously disfigured adversary known as Skull Face, while the ongoing conflict also introduces new, iconic characters, such as the mysterious Quiet — a mute female sniper with incredible abilities.

«The To Do List» may not be a film of great substance, but this comedy about a young girl's strange, semi-erotic journey from untouched maiden to minx accomplishes something both rare and significant for a teen movie: it places a female character in the central role as unapologetic sexual aggressor.

Like its central characters, at least Cave and Hillcoat are straightforward about their intentions (apart from the awkward placement of its female characters, who are mostly forgotten whenever they aren't necessary to the plot), and the story unfolds in a flurry of pummelings, shootings, and stabbings that punctuate the battle of wills between men with few moral qualms (One particularly gruesome episode really puts a character's legend to the test).

As in his earlier film Gloria, Lelio demonstrates a solid, remarkable grasp of his central female character, capturing Marina's interior life through her exterior actions and reactions.

The central character is Kathryn Graham (the «extremely overrated» Meryl Streep), the owner of the Washington Post, and the sole female at the table of white males on the paper's board of directors.

It has an ensemble cast of characters, but the central protagonist is a female warrior.

Half The World Global Literati Award The annual US$ 50,000 cash prize will be awarded to a short story, novel or screenplay written in English, judged to have portrayed one or more well - rounded female protagonists as the central character.

The central character of Maybe the Moon is very like me, though I'm disguised there as a heterosexual, Jewish, female dwarf.

This epic fantasy has an ensemble cast of characters, but the central character is a female.

I don't need to yell about how annoying it is for the central female character to be defined in the title of the story by the primary male figure in her life!

Speaking in a recent interview, Moris used the statement to highlight the differences that DONTNOD are striving for with Nilin - Remember Me's female, mixed - race, central character.

Ubisoft has released a new CGI trailer for Assassin's Creed Unity, showcasing a new female character who is central to the Assassin's Creed Unity's plot.

Regardless, the game still undeniably focuses on female characters in a seldom shown way with its central theme of motherhood.

She will explore these ideas through a central female character.

The central figures are energized by the flat exterior, which compresses the female characters to seem kinetic in the still format and explosive in their enveloping flatness.