Sentences with phrase «guilelessness of»

Creed follows its predecessor Rocky in contrasting the violence of boxing with the childlike guilelessness of the boxer, but Jordan plays Donny with even more vulnerability and innocent need than Stallone did: his tough fighter persona is a pumped - up performance, and not a very convincing one at that.

Not exact matches

Screenwriters Evan Goldberg (Seth Rogen's collaborator on «Superbad» and «Pineapple Express») and Jay Baruchel (who co-stars as Doug's hockey - obsessed, potty - mouthed best pal) strike a delicate balance between Doug's guilelessness and his capacity for violence, and the loony balance of the two — played with expert precision by Scott — gives the film its comic zest.

It's the most obviously comic of his pictures, and it ends with a moment of crystal - blue melancholy as it becomes clear that the audience has sutured not just to this guy's guilelessness, but to the loneliness driving him as well.

Brilliantly played with a mixture of insolence and guilelessness by Barry Keoghan, Martin has a strange hold over Steven.

In Zhou Yilun's art, this cocktail of contradictory cultural elements doesn't have the alluvial and demanding vehemence of other artists sharing the same genre, but a type of guilelessness, pleasant purity which finally offers the feeling of comfortable honesty and freedom regarding personal expectation and prejudice.