Sentences with phrase «focused on its characters while»

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While answering a question about other names that were considered for the series — one being «Nonprophit,» when the script focused more on the main character's job at a non-profit and less on her friendship with Molly — she mentioned it was a challenge selling network executives on the name Insecure.

While the first clutch of episodes mainly focused on aristocratic social issues, the second series features a string of shocking plot twists, including the surprise deaths of several major characters.

While I don't know if he will die first, I am guessing that he will die in Episode VIII as the trilogy begins to focus more on the main characters and less on the First Order.

While it does spend much of its time looking at the «character» traits that help children succeed, it is broader focused than just character development, with many portions dwelling on evaluation of a variety of educa

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!

Nevertheless, despite the frequent confusion that accompanies the watching of these films, the long view reveals a series that has remained focused on characters, feeling and filmmaking craft, while often telling this classically inspired story with wit and nuance.

The screenplay by David Kajganich (The Invasion), based on Finkel's memoir, gradually develops tension while keeping its focus on the two main characters, even if it's embellished to fit a more conventional dramatic framework.

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.

While Elephant, on one hand, focused on the time and space factors that converge unrelated people to those tragic incidents, Uwe Boll is more concerned about the characters - and this is a sympathetic and surprisingly moving drama that relies on decent performances.

So while in Carlos our focus is on Carlos and his men, here we have other characters, including eventually Annie, the star of the show.

You'll want to focus on playing offline for a while so you can learn how the game works and so you can upgrade your character and make him ready for the online battles.

While both characters get their fill of flashbacks, the filmmakers skimp on the details and instead stay focused on the concentration and loneliness the sport requires to earn that number one spot.

While a number of the fairy - tale oriented characters are pretty funny, the main three characters that the film chooses to focus on (Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona), are an absolute bore, if not completely unlikable.

While the previously released Xenoverse series features custom characters and heavy emphasis on online components, Dragon Ball Fighter Z focuses primarily on fast - paced, fierce, and fluid combat.

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The story was political, focusing on Chile during the Pinochet regime, but the director was smart enough to let it play in the background while the main character did his own thing, that being a disco John Travolta impression.

Rating: 8/10 — featuring Pacino's most effective and rewarding screen performance for some time, Paterno rightly keeps its focus on its leading character while also exposing the hypocrisy and deception going on around him; an intelligent but modest drama that packs an emotional wallop when it needs to, it's also a movie that successfully avoids being exploitative or insensitive.

While the movie's focus is not solely on Green's character, his ability to bring this complex performance to life definitely makes him stand out from the bunch.

While the plot of Private Life is primarily focused on Giamatti and Hahn's characters, there are three important supporting characters that need to be mentioned.

Ever the underdog, Steve Rogers single - mindedly focuses on what's best for everyone else and while subsequent films introduce more nuance to the character, The First Avenger remains a fun if somewhat schlocky introduction to what makes Captain America tick.

It focuses on the development, special effects, character designs and much more and does it while showing the film.

WHY: The fourth season of «The Walking Dead» may be plagued by many of the same problems as previous years, but while its tendency to let plotlines drag on for too long causes the show to grind to a halt at times, the renewed focus on keeping the story moving even when its characters aren't plays a huge part in its success.

Scenes of success blend with scenes of struggle, and while the relationship between Dewey and Greene and Greene's own discomfort with fame (capitulated to on his scheduled appearance on «The Tonight Show») keep things focused to a degree, the film becomes a string of events without as much connection to the characters.

The problem is that the movie becomes more focused on diagnosis than character, and so what eventually unfolds is a meandering picture that only too late in the game leans toward highlighting any kind of thematic undercurrent while introducing romantic interests for the leads that do little but pad out an already too long running time.

It is movingly fitting that one of the only superhuman - based films centered on women (in this case, generations of women with Gugu Mbatha - Raw and her growing star power, underrated television character actor Lorraine Toussaint, and youngster Saniyya Sidney bonding and making amends while also going even further back reading ancestral passages from a handed diary) focuses -LSB-...]

Yet the movie succeeds best while focusing on the recognizable, likable, and highly enjoyable characters and their offbeat relationships.

While the actual teaser focused on Deadpool giving his best Bob Ross impersonation, complete with happy clouds and trees, we did get a brief collage of footage from the actual movie, snippets and all - too - brief looks at various characters and scenes of the film.

It's perfect, then, that Mike Leigh «s marvelous Mr. Turner takes an impressionistic approach to exploring Turner's character, focusing on intimate, revelatory, and often unflattering moments in the late painter's life, stressing truth over historical accuracy while never shattering Turner's mystique.

While you'll certainly find nefarious organizations and individuals who want to do this evil or commit that atrocity, the story generally focuses on the relationships between the characters.

While there are no details for the film's plot yet, the cast is filled with characters who are either political allies, or rivals to T'Challa's King, making it appear as if Black Panther will be a deeply political film that will focus on the Wakandan court.

While the more serious - minded «Moneyball» focused on the true story of how sabermetrics changed the way baseball teams assess players, the fictional «Draft Day» ultimately is about the way in which character can prevail over combine figures during one of the biggest events on the National Football League's calendar.

People usually bemoan the lack of a strong human element in big blockbusters like this, but while «Godzilla» aims to remedy that by placing the focus more on them than the giant monsters doing battle, the characters are so bland and thinly written (with the exception of Bryan Cranston's scientist, who has a smaller role than is hinted at in the trailers) that it only makes things worse.

While all the other aspects of development — designer, environment, and character artists, for example — are largely focused on their respective portion of the game, the writer is meeting with all of these various teams and trying to incorporate the multifarious elements being brought together.

Worse yet, the main story focuses on two supporting characters from the first film that simply aren't interesting enough to be front and center, while Nia Vardalos and John Corbett languish in the background with a clichéd subplot that goes nowhere.

The latest disaster movie takes a digital trip through a morbid funhouse of collapsing buildings, casually watching people die while ardently focusing on the few one - dimensional characters meant to matter.

While those characters all get their own subplots, the main focus is on how Tyler and Nora get along while planning a dance that involves the best of both their woWhile those characters all get their own subplots, the main focus is on how Tyler and Nora get along while planning a dance that involves the best of both their wowhile planning a dance that involves the best of both their worlds.

After listening, I stopped him and told him that, while his story was well thought out, he had focused so closely on the plot that his characters were non-existent.

While the clips we saw were focused more on plot and action than on the characters or the overarching themes, we saw enough of the Covenant crew to make me look forward to getting to know them better.

The latest trailer shows that while there's a fair amount of action, there's a heavy focus on the character drama as well as the prequel series» fatalism since we all know that humanity is ultimately doomed in these movies.

While Royale had more of a focus on the story and characters, Skyfall isn't afraid to let those take a backseat to the action when the film calls for it.

While the movie is filled with satellite characters (Suzie and Alex are only in a fraction of the film, sadly), the focus is always on Tom and Violet's increasingly strained relationship.

Molyneux's character focused on shooting enemies with a powerful pistol, while his partner slashed away with a sword.

While Arcel smartly chose to focus on the characters» emotions and motivations throughout the film, Costume Designer Manon Rasmussen and Production Designer Niels Sejer also created visually stunning, unique and realistic clothing and sets for every scene.

The majority of this video focuses on the mysterious Pokémon Magearna and how it possibly involves itself with GameXplain's theory video from a while ago and even stranger, how it may involve the character Lillie.

While I agree the the movie dragged and instead of picking one character and focusing the plot on them, it seemed to drift aimlessly to and fro from one character to the next... I will say that I for one am happy that someone has decided to choose the follow a slightly more true to form version of the Snow White tale.

If only he could deliver when the film needs that shot of adrenaline for the action scenes as he fails to connect us to the immediacy of the moment as characters get overrun by avalanches of poorly - animated CGI zombie hordes while keeping the focus on Gerry, the one character we're all but assured is safe.

The first is a text - based and geared towards elaborating the various philosophies introduced by the characters, while the second, a screen - specific yakker with Linklater, animation producers Bob Sabiston and Tommy Pallotta, and star Wiggins, focuses on the seeds of the project and the execution of the raw, live - action footage.

While the hyperactive story focuses on a pair of twins, Lianna and Rowan, in battle you play as an ensemble cast, free to switch between a number of various characters at the touch of a button.

While Vaan is probably billed as the «main character» the story doesn't focus on him, allowing nearly equal development time for all the characters.

While the first film focused largely on Wade Wilson, the sequel looks to give more screen - time to some strong female characters like Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Domino.