Sentences with phrase «focused on characters rather»

and many more), exactly the kind of vibe that could benefit a road trip focused on characters rather than antics.

The focus on character rather than information transfer, the need for high expectations and encouragement, and the emphasis on personal relationships and mentoring are integral for raising up the next generation.

His masterful composition of muted colors and tense but understated score, his visual focus on the characters rather than their actions, and his subtle but powerful use of camera elevate this story above its exploitative trappings.

Kind of a kinder, gentler, but still rather surprising take on Billy Wilder's classic Ace In The Hole, with its media circus and mysterious trickster, but focusing on character rather than «portrait of america.»

Speaking to IGN, director Francis Lawrence talked about making a spy thriller that focuses on character rather than plot:

Not exact matches

In 2001, Bay changed it up a bit and didn't focus on an important character but rather used it to show fighter planes flying in for an attack in «Pearl Harbor.»

New friendships tend to be shallow, focused on sharing superficial pastimes rather than on the mutual development of character.

So rather than focusing on 30 accomplishments I would like to achieve, I think I'll focus on 9 character traits I would like to develop over the next year.

Not machismo and boasting, rather his focus is on character, honor, and courage.

Built for mobile, users upload a photo and 200 characters about an experience they enjoyed, rather than a review of a place so it focuses on recommendations.

The site uses a questionnaire that analyzes 29 character traits and matches you accordingly — there's a commendable focus on personality rather than looks alone here — and while the signup process is admittedly lengthy, you'll be browsing comprehensive profiles of women who are serious about dating once you're in — no time - wasters or ghosters here!

This semi-autobiographical story is an occasionally harrowing but sometimes also surprisingly warm and funny tale that, while the characters focus a lot on eating (or, rather, not eating), is really more about finding the will and self - love necessary to live rather than about dealing with an eating disorder.

Rather than coming off as an empty paean to the fans, though, the filmmakers» desire to focus on the characters as real people even in the midst of pitched battle keeps even the shallowest viewer of the series engaged in what could have easily been just mindless action set pieces and explosions.

The script is phoned in and rather than focus on the Autobots like in the cartoon the film focuses on the poorly written human characters who aren't that interesting.

A solid remake of a solid, albeit short biker adventure that is primarily focused on storytelling and the characters rather than puzzles.

With The Legend of Hercules (2014) or Dracula Untold (2014), studios seem to have been banking on the name of the titular characters rather than focussing on an original way of telling their stories.

But it's also a weakness, as the show focuses almost entirely on its sprawling plot rather than character development.

Despite the rather large nature of the cast working under Waller's character, director and writer David Ayer wisely chose to focus the movie's attention on the best actors, Davis, Smith and Robbie.

«And rather than focus on the script and the scenes directly, we fleshed out the relationship the characters had prior to this momentary snapshot that you get of them in the movie: what they experienced together, how they kind of grew apart.»

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

10:00 PM — 11:00 PM» focused a lot on the characters and story rather than pulse - pounding action, though the final few minutes -LSB-...]

I would have liked to know why a character's severed arm came to life and how the ship became possessed rather than focus on a monster attack that was better executed in the first Cloverfield film.

And as things get darker and creepier, he keeps things tightly focussed on the characters, which keeps us engaged even when the plot starts to get rather nutty.

Then again, Smaug is focused on the ensemble rather than individual characters ala Fellowship.

Your main complaint seems to be that Howard likes, and focuses on, the admittedly more likable but, in your view, less interesting racer more than the racer you think the movie should have focused on, ultimately rendering the film a star vehicle rather than the character study in obsession you wish it were.

That rather sad fact, which is not uncommon, is one of the reasons that Johnson and Koch are proud that a festival run primarily by women regularly includes films with women directors — seven this year, including «Toni Erdmann» — along with features that focus on female characters such as «Jackie,» Kelly Reinhardt's «Certain Women» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.»

Being based on a play, it works with these constraints and allows the audience to focus on the chemistry of the characters rather than the sets or the locations.

Final Verdict: Stallone's best work, the true underdog story, surprisingly more focused on character and acting, rather than a glamorous build - up to the main boxing event.

The film is also well - remembered for its brilliant Duke Ellington jazz score (also unusual at the time) and the focus on Stewart as a character rather than simply focusing on the plot.

The cooperative mode shares the predictable progression system, but compensates with a character - driven side - story campaign focusing on entertaining moments rather than depth.

The focus on these aspects is what led to the decision to have the cut scenes of Metal Gear Solid use the character models from the game rather than the ever popular pre-rendered CG cut scenes.

All the supporting cast are great and take full advantage of a very witty script that has a lot of heart and focuses on character development rather than action.

Given that the score of Breakfast at Tiffany's — especially the signature «Moon River» tune — is as iconic as Hepburn's character of Holly Golightly, it's rather surprising that only in the new DVD release is there a documentary featurette focusing solely on composer Henry Mancini and his indelible and enduring contribution to this film and the movie music world in general.

Similarly, Jason Momoa seems to be more concerned about flaunting his bodybuilder physique, rather than focusing on his character's loss and pursuit.

Landline is less structured than Obvious Child and focuses more on the family as a whole rather than a single character.

Rather than just making a game that followed the events of the story, they focused on the possibility of playing with the Toy Story characters as one would actual toys.

Rather than focusing on bullets traded and blows landed with shaky, «immediate» handheld photography, director Gore Verbinski relies on the pleasures of unexpected motion occurring within a static frame: a character falling off a train to land on an unseen horse, or our dynamic duo finding themselves swinging in circles after the chains on their hands get caught on an overhead cable, or, most famously, Tonto bridging up on a ladder in the «middle» of a fight between the Ranger and William Fichtner's Butch Kavendish.

Unlike his past films about strong female characters, like Philomena and The Queen, Frears forces Florence Foster Jenkins» perspective to emphasize how she affected the men in her life rather than focusing more on her personal struggle.

This is a languidly paced biography that focuses on character over plot, allowing the viewer to absorb the story rather than having it trample past at breakneck speed.

It's been on the rise in the United States for about decade, with films like Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop (2007) and Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008) employing a natural and semi-observational style that focuses on characters and situations rather than heavy - handed plots to tell their stories about America's downtrodden poor.

The New World is a movie to get lost in, and from the first few minutes we are thrown into director Terrence Malick s world of complex characters that focus on their emotions and feelings at their current time in this new found place on earth, rather than overweighing us in a story about when Pocahontas met John Smith.

Anyways I'd rather the creators focus on the individual characters than add 20 more.

The film gets too focused on story, rather than characters or horror.

Why did you decide to focus on the community rather than individual characters?

One only wishes that the filmmakers would've felt confident enough to focus on the uniqueness of this story rather than inundate it with stereotypical characters and plot developments.

Here is a movie that exists in the world of superheroes but focuses on its characters and its story rather than special effects and loud action scenes.

Activision also revealed that Black Ops 4 won't have a traditional single - player campaign; rather, the game will feature solo missions that focus on each of its Specialist characters.

Secondly, Downsborough recommends that when managing behavioural infractions, every educator must look for student strengths and build on these, rather than focusing on negative character traits.

What's more troubling, though is the extent to which our national education debates have come to focus on the character, motivation, experience, and relationships of those who hold different views — rather than on the substance of those views or evidence about how different policies and practices do or are likely to impact kids.

Logically, its supporters should be those who firmly believe that we should focus our efforts on repairing the characters of children rather than on transforming the environments in which they learn, those who assume the worst about human nature, those who are more committed to preserving than to changing our society, those who favor such values as obedience to authority, and those who define learning as the process of swallowing whole a set of preexisting truths.