Sentences with phrase «film establish the characters»

As for that key moment that sets up the final act, I thought the film established the character motivation adequately with the earlier scenes showing us Schultz's reaction to some of the violence against slaves.

The early scenes in the film establish the characters very clearly.

Not exact matches

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

Genuine actors operate within a framework established by the imitative nature of film ¯ hence a good person can portray a bad one, or act out bad actions, without it being a reflection of his or her character.

The film is a deep character study of Riggan Thomson played by a moving and stellar Michael Keaton a once - time big movie star struggling to regain importance in his contemporary setting while trying to establish himself as an artist worthy of praise and to get rid of his «Birdman» image.

Rather than collecting a bunch of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down in its own plot that it forgets to be funny.

The film opens with the obligatory but mercifully brief happy family scenes where Pitt's character, Gerry Lane, is established as a stay - at - home Philadelphia dad who doesn't seem to do anything more strenuous than make pancakes for breakfast.

For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.

In some ways it reminds me of Mad Max: Fury Road, an expert chase film that establishes its characters naturally as it barrels onward.

By contrast, Garland builds things up slowly, patiently establishing the characters, their realities, and the place they're heading into, structuring the film like a kaleidoscopic, psychedelic detective story.

He literally throws in the kitchen sink in a film that frantically introduces characters and concepts while never clearly establishing the rules of the DC Comics universe.

Establishing a new film identity as a character comedienne, Midler sparkled in Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), and was even better as a loudmouthed kidnap victim in Ruthless People (1987).

In establishing McCandless as a character, the film describes his industriousness and good nature; later, his desperation becomes unveiled, and it is this desperation that determines his final actions.

Most of the film's first hour is concerned with establishing Cruise's character.

Clint Eastwood wisely chose a strong, simple thriller for his first film as a director (1971), and the project is remarkable in its self - effacing dedication to getting the craft right — to laying out the story, building the rhythm, putting the camera in the right place, and establishing small characters with a degree of conviction.

The film also has some great random casting with established stars like Paul Rudd, William Baldwin and Jonah Hill taking small cameo roles and making their characters so quirky that they're not the stock supporting cast members you'd typically expect.

The film's opening sequence finely establishes this bold character, whom the editor likens to a wolf, in numerous close - ups of his beardy face.

No additional information has been given about Harrelson's possible character in the film, and we don't know if he'll be playing a previously established character or a brand new one.

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers throws all of the wonderful character study out the window established in the previous film and just aims straight on for pure terror only, and ultimately misses its mark.

While the film's concept may leave some viewers confused, given how the Joker is already an established character within the studio's other movie universe, it does leave DC with a blank canvas ripe with exciting story, creative team and casting possibilities.

Given where the various characters find themselves emotionally, financially etc., ending the film ninety seconds earlier could have lent the film a more uncertain and pessimistic vibe which would have been in keeping with the increasingly cynical tone the film had been steadily establishing.

By the time a necrotic viral pandemic spread cross-country to small town America and infected the film's titular character, 16 - year - old MAGGIE (ABIGAIL BRESLIN), authorities had established a protocol for patients infected with the deadly virus: they are removed from society and taken to special iso... Read On

Not that the characters look realistic, but within their established cartoon world, their movements are completely fluid, their environs intricately presented, and even the physics of their action carry the proportions necessary to avoid taking us out of the moment, as so many other recent animated films tend to do.

These are meant to be revealing — «character beats,» in screenwriting - instructor speak — but just like the revelations of the weirdos Garlin interviews, they feel arbitrary, relaying nothing about Garlin's character except that he is a dad who likes baseball, two traits that the film already established by virtue of its existence.

The first several minutes of «In the Fade» are vital because they lay out the crime on which the plot hinges and also establish the film's lead character, Katja (Diane Kruger), as capable of joy.

The film does a good job of establishing characters efficiently, which is important when juggling a cast of this size.

If you love Smith's previous films, you will find a familiar comfort with the established universe of characters and their perversities in Zack and Miri.

Although most of the key players were established in the first trailer, released in June — or before that, in 2016's Captain America: Civil War — from star Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa to Letitia Wright as Princess Shuri to Michael B. Jordan as Erik Killmonger, the new footage reveals different facets of many of the film's characters, and of the nation at its heart.

To be fair, the film - makers do establish a certain depth to his character towards the end in an emotional scene involving his father, which is heartfelt and well - played.

The sequel begins with a new case — the famous Amityville incident — which screenwriters Chad Hayes, Carey Hayes, David Leslie Johnson and Wan only touch on briefly to give the audience a sense of where the characters are at in their careers and, rather seamlessly, efficiently establish a new internal and external threat in the film.

Kirk's lifelong attraction to a variety of female sexual partners is also established early in this film when he is caught in bed with not one but two human - like characters.

The excellent work in establishing characters and the group's relationship early on is nearly all but thrown out the window or forgotten about for large portions of the film to make way for prolonged, self indulgent action sequences that we have all seen many times before and that are all too common in a Frost, Pegg, Wright collaboration.

The first challenge the film has is to establish characters.

The major players are all established and while many characters are unlikable, they make sense in the film's universe.

No, I'm talking about the Marvel franchise, which has spent years at this point establishing each one of its major Avengers characters in their own films and lightly playing with crossovers during them.

The film also establishes Scott as a filmmaker looking for thematically rich material; these characters» battle with each other mirrors the wars going on around them, and the struggle within themselves between desire and honor.

There is an obvious gap between these two characters that co - writer / director Kris Swanberg starts to establish from the start of the film.

And while it initially seems like John Debney's generic musical score is going to be the only source of mood establishment, something funny happens: setup established, the characters begin to move about like butterflies emerging from cocoons, displaying tenfold more emotional nuance than one might rightfully, albeit cynically, expect from such a film.

The Black Panther solo film established a rich array of characters, like Shuri and M'Baku, all of whom could pick up the mantle after T'Challa's reign is over (if it isn't already...).

I'm very interested in costume drama, and if one commandeers it, the film needs to establish itself as different from costume drama on television and in cinema, which is all about the interior [of characters].

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.

Most films of its ilk would establish the third wheel character of the current husband as a lout deserving of a break - up, and while Ira is certainly a cad, Simon wisely never paints the character in a negative light, creating some interesting conflicts in the dynamic of the newly reunited partners in crime.

Actions by characters late in the film also don't jibe with their established behavior and the ending falls flat.

Similar to Vergara, his character is familiar and is essentially the same guy from start to finish, however, whereas Vergara pops up intermittently, Leguizamo's character is so well woven into the script, he becomes essential to the tone and environment established in the second half of the film.

The film attempts, with some success, to establish the expandable vehicles as characters: the original is called Spirit; the younger, more advanced rover is Opportunity.

Then Twohy starts layering in flashbacks to fill in the back - stories, up to an extended black and white sequence that sorts out the loose ends and sets things up for the frantic, action - charged climax.The first half of the film builds the atmosphere perfectly, establishing the characters with economy thanks to a clever script and an especially strong cast.

Perhaps if The Bad Batch were less concerned about constantly establishing its mood and atmosphere through sound and visuals and more (or equally) focused on engaging audiences with its characters and plot, it would have been a much more entertaining film.

It's easy enough to follow, and the film wastes no time establishing these characters» backgrounds in order to get the ball rolling, the problem is, it's the same tired structure that's plagued comic superhero blockbusters for the better part of almost a decade.

The film begins with a dramatic opening sequence establishing Diesel's character Navy S.E.A.L. Lt. Shane Wolfe.

What the film lacks in establishing empathy outside of the main character, it makes up for in creating a tense environment of survival.