Sentences with phrase «folk hero who»

Depp gives a layered performance as a confident folk hero who worries about what people think.

Not exact matches

While other Blazers bowled, danced and played air hockey with some of the folks who had helped to sell out the last seven games at the Rose Garden, Oden stayed off his feet, repairing to a back room to play Guitar Hero.

The folks who create great products are real heroes to me and I want to shout it from the rooftops.

• Darla — Inspired by American fashion model Darla Baker • Joni — Inspired by folk singer Joni Mitchell or Joni from Happy Days • Lavinia - Of Latin origin Lavinia was the daughter of King Latinus and the wife of Trojan hero Aeneas, who named the city Lavinium in her honour.

Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computers who died this week, had a reputation as a passionate business leader and a modern folk hero.

«She is the voice of greatness,» says Russel Honoré, the now - retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who became a local folk hero when he led search and rescue and evacuation after Hurricane Katrina and later founded the GreenARMY, a coalition of environmental groups fighting against pollution in the Gulf region.

The movie captures The Doctor's arc, from rising folk hero to a weakened man who's both isolated by the very own movement he helped create and persecuted by the Mexican government.

In a joint interview with Cooper, the director of «Crazy Heart» and «Out of the Furnace,» the two discussed the challenges of portraying a folk - hero criminal who has, as Cooper said, «left a real emotional scar on the city of Boston.»

Of the yakkers so far, this one is most fulsome in that it takes an interest in structure and the rationale for showing the hero early in every episode (so the folks back home don't change the channel looking for «Doctor Who»).

It won't be a dramatic shock to your system, then, to see that «Invincible,» the tale of an average Joe... or, in this case, an average Vince... who becomes an unlikely football hero, was produced by the same folks who were behind «The Rookie» (Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray).

Robert Culp co-stars as a newspaperman who sees a big story in Wilma — the dispossessed victim turned folk hero outlaw — and ends up helping her mission of revenge.

Rubber Duck's dealings with the authorities quickly makes him a folk hero for other truckers and those in the CB culture, who quickly engage in helping Duck out by following his lead in a convoy which stretches for over a mile.

While many of us like to consider ourselves free thinkers, there are some folks who have no choice but to truly live outside the box... Frank, the titular hero at the center of Irish director, Lenny Abrahamson's oddly beautiful new film — played with hypnotic grace by Michael Fassbender — is one such person.

Folk Hero & Funny Guy centers on struggling comedian Paul Scott (Alex Karpovsky), who is invited to open for his successful rocker buddy Jason Black (Wyatt Russell) on his solo acoustic tour from Boston to Atlanta.

While Clarke's character treats the married couple who are his tenants (Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan) as if they are indentured servants, his reprehensible Klansman Pappy (Jonathan Banks) thinks nothing of inflicting pain upon their returning World War II hero son (Jason Mitchell) who refuses to kowtow to white folks.

The «folk hero» of the movie's title is played by Wyatt Russell, a successful singer - songwriter who takes his buddy the comedian on a small tour as an opening act.

Tabloid headlines and human - interest footnotes alike are elevated to fable: an adolescent love triangle in which one party turns arsonist; a troublesome cockerel that crows too early; a killer on the run who becomes a folk hero.

Her unstoppable heroes and heroines include contemporary every day folk, role - playing immortal gamers, futuristic covert agents, and warriors who purr.

Whitehead conducts an inventive, funny, and bittersweet inquiry into the significance of folk hero John Henry by paralleling the legend of the steel - driving man who took on the Industrial Revolution with the story of a cynical black writer, who pits himself against the Information Age.

Freshly launched into Early Access, T.M.R.A (we'll use that a bit for the sake of my sanity) is a step toward the fierce and frantic from Camex Games, the same folk who brought us the turn based tactical RPG Heroes Tactics.

Cold Iron is primarily staffed by former Cryptic Studios (City of Heroes, Star Trek Online) devs, but is also home to folks who have worked on Borderlands, BioShock Infinite, Doom and Metroid Prime 3.

Sometimes people who make B - movies end up becoming almost folk heroes, like Ed Wood or Tommy Wiseau, but that doesn't seem to happen in games.

They even have special services for pros, like unstretched rolled canvases, for folks who like / know how to stretch their own... and they'll ship orders to your clients without any branding, so it arrives as a finished piece, but you look like the hero (and maybe you've even been able to charge a hair more on the finishing, than it cost you — woot!).

Described by Tom Wolfe as «the folk heroes of every social climber who ever hit New York» — Robert was a high school drop - out from the Bronx — the Sculls shrewdly recognized that establishing themselves as influential art collectors offered access to the upper echelons of Manhattan society in a way that nouveau riche «taxi tycoon» did not.

From the title, we assume it to be that of folk hero, John Henry, who as a 19th century working - class figure, beat the machine that was about to take over his job, leading to his death.

The bogus bids made DeChristopher, now 29, a folk hero to many environmentalists, who've started a movement based on that single act.

You folks — all of you — are heroes who deserve to go down in the history books for defending the legacy of the scientific method in the face of the all out assault from the postnormalists.