Sentences with phrase «hammer home the character»

Anderson's success comes from taking time in the story for little exchanges that hammer home the character.

The young cast is instructed to pout for maximum effect whenever not hammering home their characters» single defining quality, e.g. one player has to wear headphones and listen to «Big Poppa» while pitching (hence setting the stage for Reeves» rickety renditions); one kid who is actually too young to play nonetheless listens to Conor's sage advice by showing up for every game and practice.

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The cheek - bones - tastic Miller first made an impression in 2008's «Afterschool,» and hammered home his talent as the infuriating, sociopathic title character in Lynne Ramsay «s «We Need To Talk About Kevin.»

Stories and emotions are told through the characters faces, and often the words are just there to hammer home the point or simply underline what's happening.

She's such a funny, smart woman that it made me realize that it hammered home that this is what that character needed.

a dark, gritty, emotionally resonant film and despite the mutant element, it is very human with searing dialogue that hammers home the emotion of the film and the characters within it.

Even the tearjerker - ready conclusion hammers home the crocodile tears with its overblown closing image: reuniting characters in the foreground of a burning, orange sunset, which feels like the «Gone With the Wind» set.

That point is hammered home in Yourself and Yours where the main character morphs into a completely different person as soon a fresh pint of beer is served.

Yes, seeing as Peyton tries to hammer home the fact that this disaster is really a microcosm for the central characters» crumbling family unit, there is a sense that the whole «death of the other daughter» history could have been added to more, making it feel more like an obligatory excuse for the hero to have both a dark past and a sensitive side.

Capra turns out an amiable and appealing little comedy with some memorable character bits (Mischa Auer and Ann Miller in particular), but spends so much effort hammering home his own populist point that he misses the spirit of the material.

The film begins by hammering that point home, as his roommate and lifelong best man (Dave Franco), gets engaged to his boyfriend, and Teddy is forced to find a new place to live (Franco's character has come out in between movies, and «Neighbors 2» has nothing but love for his new direction).

But when you hammer out of the Trigger and onto the Bridge Straight at Summit Point's Shenandoah Circuit, the ass - end hanging out on the stripes as the TORSEN limited - slip differential plants both rear Bridgestones convincingly into the pavement, there's a distinct commonality of character that makes you forget entirely that the badge on the steering wheel is more often at home on upscale Camry clones and near - luxury hybrids.

And if it wasn't hammered home enough, within the first few minutes of playing we learn that the characters are about to celebrate the 25th anniversary of something important.

The letters I've read and the terrific fan artwork & stories I've seen do sort of hammer home the point that these are characters people love & are attached to.