Sentences with phrase «heterosexual romance»

This is the ethos that guides the game and much of popular culture at large in its depictions of heterosexual romance specifically, as well as more generally.

Although heterosexual romance is the field on which she enacts her power plays, Susan's real opponents are other women — her suspicious sister - in - law, her paramour's wife, and her own young daughter.

With the movie due to premiere at Sundance, Wain has also released a typically witty director's statement: «After having already made world - changing cinematic statements on adolescence (Wet Hot American Summer), religion (The Ten), service (Role Models), and community (Wanderlust), I teamed up with Michael Showalter to take on a topic that (to our knowledge) has yet been seen in the movies: ROMANCE — particularly heterosexual romance between two white people.

His desperation to smooth the choppiness of the story and format is palpable in the short - selling of the Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) character (and Aragorn's horse who, without much in - text warning, becomes a key character) and the desire to infuse heterosexual romance (with both Arwen and Miranda Otto's Eowyn) into Tolkien's sexually sterile universe.

Part of it probably stems from the fact that we're simply used to seeing men as the older partners in heterosexual romances.

Balancing out the playing field honestly can't hurt; the heterosexual romances and the scantily clad women have their place (a very prominent place in fact) in gaming history, but maybe now it is time to mix things up a bit and provide new characters and twists on the time - tested tropes we've come to know.