Sentences with phrase «fictional film character»

Saunders» work often quotes obscure, often tragic film muses and here he references the fictional film character Leni Peickert, created in the 1960s by the German film director Alexander Kluge.

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Black Panther is the first standalone film to focus on the titular character, the superhero alias of King T'Challa of the fictional country Wakanda, portrayed by actor Chadwick Boseman.

No, Sophie is fictional, as are all of the characters in our film.

In addition (and I hate to bring up realism in what is so clearly a fictional film) the main characters appear to be superhuman.

Made with deft evenhandedness, Paul Devlin's accomplished film plays almost like a fictional drama, containing suspense, comedy and some colorful characters.

While Brashear is based on a real - life person and Sunday is a fictional character (a composite of various embodied obstacles in Brashear's Navy career), in George (Soul Food) Tillman Jr.'s film, they come together in a neatly choreographed dance of righteous nobility in the face of ignorance and fear.

Will Gluck's Peter Rabbit opens as one might expect for an animated / live - action film based on the misadventures of Beatrix Potter's beloved fictional animal character: with a flock of birds gliding through the sky and singing a pretty little tune worthy of Julie Andrews.

In any other fictional film if you have bad characters, underdeveloped elements, and sloppy narrative you simply get a bad piece of fiction.

German / Austrian director Michael Haneke has become notorious for making films that are, essentially, extended meditations on discomfort, in which the lives of his fictional characters are marred by unspeakable violence and the minds of the audience are jarred by self - reflexive story twists.

Taken a from a point of narration by Chaplin during an interview with a fictional character played by Hopkins the film simply takes you through Chaplin's life from one event to another although with many gaps.

Despite a disappointing dearth of monkeys, they understand that the story of their characters is more important than the doubly fictional world they inhabit, and there is a legitimate sense of humour throughout the film.

While I do think, from a story standpoint, it's a shame that Garrigan wasn't limited to being a mere witness to the events of the Amin era, as he was portrayed more in the book, instead of a constant catalyst for Amin's rage, considering he is a fictional character, we'll just chalk up his constant missteps as dramatic license taken by the screenwriters in drawing out Amin to commit some of the most heinous acts of torture shown in film this side of a Mel Gibson directorial effort.

An attempt to spice up a true story with fictional characters and events leaves this film feeling artificial.

This is a key element he explored in the film, with African characters from the fictional country of Wakanda, which has never been colonized or even had any trade relationships with western countries, and African - American characters, who reflect the stress of living in a country still confronting racial divides.

The first standalone feature film for the character, Black Panther will take place in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, as the royal Wakandan family politics is under threat.

Now that you have all of Smith's movies in your head, disregard everything you have know of his film career, and any fictional characters he has created.

Holmes has outlived many actors and will probably outlive many more; according to Guinness World Records, he's the most - portrayed fictional character in film history.

The best Iranian film in years, invisible in its own country save for a series of screenings at the latest Fajr Film Festival, a sum of Banietemad's work (both fictional and documentary): characters from some of her earlier films meet and have complex, intimate interactions over the landscape of contemporary Tehran.

45 Years may only be his second fictional feature film, after 2011's Weekend, but British director Andrew Haigh has already established himself as a man who creates characters that feel ripped from the real world.

There are a number of real historical figures portrayed in the film, including William Randolph Hearst, Nelson Rockerfeller, Orson Welles, Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo, and lesser knowns like Hazel Huffman, Hallie Flanagan and others that all interact with the fictional characters in the movie.

While it's reported that Nyong» o would play the love interest of T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman)-- king of the fictional nation Wakanda and true identity of the film's titular superhero — the details of her character are still unknown.

It's easy to sit back and judge fictional characters, but at no point do any of them make an obviously stupid decision, and much of the film plays out as a thriller as we root for the strong - willed young women to find a way out of captivity.

At the film's core is Fabrice Luchini's wonderful performance as a man who is obsessed with the woman next door whom he associates with his favorite fictional character, Emma Bovary.»

According to Guiness World Records, Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed fictional character, by more than 70 actors in over 200 films, plays and television shows.

Forest Whitaker stars in the film as Cecil Gaines, a fictional character mimicking Allen's experiences, and has said that Cecil is viewed by his son in the film as an «Uncle Tom».

, though all of the events and characters in the film are completely fictional.

The story of the fight for women's right to vote is definitely a cinematically rich one but Sarah Gavron's film focuses on the fictional character of Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) instead of the real women on the dangerous frontline of the fight.

The reason why it hasn't is simple: Emmet is a completely fictional character, and the documentary - style talking head introductions to the film's individual vignettes (by jazz historians and enthusiasts, including Allen himself) go a long way in convincing the audience of the film's truth.

This film is set in Los Angeles in the 1940s, where part of the city is the fictional Toontown, where all of the famous (and not so famous) cartoon characters (called «Toons») reside.

The trials that this family goes through, when added to some clichéd characters, gives the film the appearance of a fictional, scripted story, not a film dealing with real events.

[To Jolie] In a way like your film too, revealing a culture and an environment that has a pretty heightened degree of authenticity, meaning the documentary but at the same time, there are composite characters and there are fictional elements.

This godawful film is a vile transparency — approximating through its fictional lead character (a white doctor who spins a globe, closes his eyes, and plops his finger on Uganda — yaaaaaaaaaaay!)

Denzel Washington is one of the film world's most prominent leading men, known best for his galvanizing portrayals of both real - life figures (Malcolm X, The Hurricane, American Gangster) and fictional characters (Philadelphia, Devil in a Blue Dress, Flight).

Both films use fictional characters linked to real historical events.

Aaron Taylor - Johnson, «Nocturnal Animals» (Focus Features) Playing a fictional character in a novel within a film gives license for flair, and Taylor - Johnson delivers in Tom Ford's latest film.

Stitching together story elements from «A Star is Born,» «Sunset Boulevard,» and others, as well as characters inspired by real - life silent film stars John Gilbert and Charles Chaplin (and others), and recycling music wholesale from later films (most notably, Bernard Hermann's score for «Vertigo»), «The Artist» bears an unmistakable resemblance to Woody Allen's «Zelig,» another nostalgic movie that wove together real - life incidents with fictional recreations.

This fictional character may believe basajauns are real, however, like Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot, a basajaun has rarely - to - never been seen and has yet to be caught on film.

Unsurprisingly, you can already find a wealth of Naruto costumes and Cammy / Chun - Li nude hacks, but there are also many impressive skins that bring real life and fictional characters that Capcom never intended to include in its game, such as Duke Nukem and Fat Bastard from the Austin Power films in the video above.

Currently at MASS MoCA, the artist presents his largest exhibition in the U.S., a vast body of work that features recurring characters including himself, his friends, fictional superheroes, politicians, and film stars.

Originating from these sources, the work often features recurring characters, including himself, his friends, fictional superheroes, politicians, and film stars.

Many of Prouvost's film and installation works center on the character of her lost «grandfather», a fictional fellow artist who «didn't really like conceptual art — he liked making bottoms».

He introduces the fictional character of Hanan, an art advisor to Sheikh Khalifa in charge of filling the empty museum, who makes the mistake of acquiring the painting collection of German novelist Erich Maria Remarque and film star Paulette Goddard (judged too Western by the Sheikh), and subsequently has trouble getting rid of it.

His works consist of such diverse forms as objects, films, photographs, drawings, music, fictional characters, and full - fledged ecosystems.

When Art21 first filmed the Houston - based artist in 2002, all of his paintings and drawings were filtered through a fictional narrative and characters he called «Mounds» and «Vegans.»

Each of the three artist - pairings in the Islands exhibition demonstrate differing approaches to collaborating, from the ongoing «A Moon For My Father» by White and Akbari, structured around an exchange of film «letters» between the two artists, to Matt Golden and Natsue Ikeda, who as Golden Family blur authorship within their art practice at large, and in their development of a fictional nomadic musician character further blur distinctions between storytelling and real - life.

«On one hand there are my fictional characters, whom I suppose are a mixture of people I've seen in real life, films, media, comics... for them, I can make up a whole universe,» she notes.

For the documentary, which considers personal identity, the individual in society, and how we construct our social selves, Wearing placed an advertisement in newspapers throughout Newcastle and London, asking readers if they would like to act in a film either as themselves or cast as a fictional character.

The first four lines introduce four characters in Gillick's cartoon film, including the central fictional character, Robert McNamara.