Sentences with phrase «human actors as»

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He joins Chris Evans (Human Torch / Captain America), Peter Dinklage (X-Men's Bolivar Trask and a character in «Infinity War»), and actor Josh Brolin who plays the villain in not only «Infinity War,» but this summer's «Deadpool 2» as well.

No matter who is chosen to play the role of a character, someone will always resemble that actor, as there are a small number of genotype human appearance factors

I believe that human actors who fail to give pride of place to moral boundaries that must never be crossed, such as the direct killing of the innocent, and who instead are ready to see their obligations in terms of moving beyond them in favor of «good results,» will be harder put «to take seriously the role that divine authority plays in morality»; for they will to that extent lose a sense of the moral limits that remind us of our finitude and anticipate consideration of a law of our being that is not one of our making.

God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage - managers, who had since made a great mess of it.»

But the Dalai Lama's camp responded almost immediately, claiming this was not at all the gist of his remarks, emphasizing his appeal for us to distinguish between «the action» and «the actor» and stressing that, as a fellow human being, even bin Laden deserves our compassion and forgiveness.

English actor Henry Ian Cusick is just right as the Christ — understated, enigmatic, appealing, somewhat distant, but completely human — a firebrand and rabble - rouser when provoked, self - assertive to the point of arrogance, warm and genuine.

Angels, visible in human form, appear as characters in the narrative and address the chief actors; an angel descends from heaven, rolls away the stone which sealed the rock tomb and sits upon it.

The «international body for the Sustainability of Human Life on the Earth» requires «the independence and power to facilitate agreement between all societal actors to support the protection of the Biosphere as the Common Interest of Humanity.»

The whole story is, as it were, a love - story with God as the principal actor and the human creation called to participate in that adventure of Love at work.

In the same way that courses in economics claiming merely to describe human beings as utility - maximizing individual actors in fact influence students to act more selfishly, so liberalism teaches a people to hedge commitments and adopt flexible relationships and bonds.

No economist supposes that human beings are exhaustively understood as economic actors.

We talked to the «Selma» actor about praying on set, playing an icon as a real human, acting as a calling, and why Christians ought to see the movie.

On this traditional model, human beings conceived of as rational actors were only occasionally subject to flights of irrationality in those rare moments when emotions overtook them.

«And in spite of all of that, I struggle every day with my self - esteem, my self - worth, and my value not only as an actor and writer, but as a human being.

So while working on the set of The X-Files guarding the honey wagons (while this can be interpreted as some sort of honey filled cart and while a search for this will give you a suction-esque type of machinery that literally sucks up human excrement but instead in reality is just a simple nice way of saying a trailer for actors and actresses) he was fired for following his dreams; writing out scripts in hopes that one day he would be able to put that film degree to good use.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a Armie Hammer responded to a tweet by James Woods that criticized the romance in Call Me By Your Name by calling out the older actor on his creepy past.

There isn't a lot for Johnson to delve into as Davis, besides his characteristics of having animals more than humans and a backstory to why he specifically despises poachers, but the actor is a movie star and embraces the material with charisma, charm and humor, and who hasn't wanted to finally see a movie where he's friends with an animal nearly as brawny as he is?

Given the vast scale the Russos are working on, resorting to your typical collect - the - gems plot game seems disappointingly basic, but there's a thornier problem with Thanos in general: he's a huge hulk of a being, twice human size, but the effects job on Brolin thwarts his usual authority as an actor.

Haneke and his actors, playing the bittersweet music of Haneke's crafted - down - to - the - essential script, show us fully and roundly what's at stake even as they depict its cruel, slow, biologically - mandated slipping away, and there's simply never been anything, no depiction of romantic / eternal love, more affecting put on celluloid: The fruits of Haneke's unwavering banishment of any easy sentiment or banal platitudes or reassurances about the human spirit is a pure, clear, penetrating, and overwhelming emotion.

By contrast, the very fine character actor Catherine Keener is excellent as his no - nonsense partner: she's every inch the believable special agent, controlled, efficient, dedicated, human but highly disciplined (as was, come to think of it, Clint Eastwood in the far superior Secret Service drama «In the Line of Fire»).

Luke Evans returns as Bard the Bowman, as do a boatload of other actors — Orlando Bloom, Ken Stott, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee, and Ryan Gage, who spends his many (many) scenes as a comically sniveling human daring children to call for the death of a fictional person.

Unlike everyone else who has ever been in a «Transformers,» Dempsey has figured out how to interact with the Transformers as a character and an actor, creating a believable actual human whose reactions are both believable and consistent.

You would hope that Scott Speedman would inject some charisma into the movie as the only leading human, yet he is the worst actor of the lot, never getting over the confused look.

This time, the engaging young actor reprises his role as earnest demigod (that is, half human - half god) Percy Jackson in the...

Mike White — «Year of the Dog» Maybe one of the purest expressions of «screenwriter - turned - director» (though he's also an actor given to appearing in character roles in some of his films) Mike White had, in years leading to 2007, carved out quite a distinctive place for himself as an indie screenwriter dealing more in low - key human dramedy than some of the more bombastic Shane Black - types, or more mainstream Steve Zaillian - types on our list.

As with «The Crucible,» Day - Lewis» big explosion — this time into outright stark - raving, animalistic rage, drooling and towering over Eli while pushing at him to tease him — wouldn't count for much if not for the slow - burn of the rest of the performance, with the actor's gradual shift from at least somewhat human to All - Powerful American Businessman as a Monster shown by his body going from upright to crooked, his face from quietly hateful to anything buAs with «The Crucible,» Day - Lewis» big explosion — this time into outright stark - raving, animalistic rage, drooling and towering over Eli while pushing at him to tease him — wouldn't count for much if not for the slow - burn of the rest of the performance, with the actor's gradual shift from at least somewhat human to All - Powerful American Businessman as a Monster shown by his body going from upright to crooked, his face from quietly hateful to anything buas a Monster shown by his body going from upright to crooked, his face from quietly hateful to anything but.

The actor Gael Garcia Bernal, co-presenting the award for best animated feature, slipped in a quick statement, saying, «As a Mexican, as a Latin - American, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I'm against any form of wall that separates us.&raquAs a Mexican, as a Latin - American, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I'm against any form of wall that separates us.&raquas a Latin - American, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I'm against any form of wall that separates us.&raquas a migrant worker, as a human being, I'm against any form of wall that separates us.&raquas a human being, I'm against any form of wall that separates us.»

Comics and character actors have a partial immunity from the stigma of ageing: they haven't offered themselves up as dream figures, so there's no sense of their having betrayed their audience by being human after all.

Born into a very different elite in 1957 — his parents were Anglo - Irish Poet Laureate Cecil Day - Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, daughter of Ealing Studios boss Sir Michael Balcon — Daniel Day - Lewis has become the actor of choice to play American giants, whether winning Oscar number two as malign oil magnate Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007), or resurrecting a wearily human, benign Abraham Lincoln for Spielberg.

There may be a day when computer graphics completely supersede the need to have celebrities in the middle of films, but given the costs of production today for animation, as well as the lack of the movie star draw to fill in the seats, Final Fantasy is a reminder that the day of the human actor will be with us for a long time to come.

However, starring as the shield throwing superhero isn't the first time the actor has answered the call when the earth is in trouble after starring as Johnny Storm aka Human Torch in Fox's «Fantastic Four» and «Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer».

Acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut, Lucky, is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection.

In saying that, this is the funniest film I have seen all year, what made it great as the actors totally believed in Ted and just acting like it was another human with them.

In those previous adaptations, actor Ioan Gruffudd portrayed Mr. Fantastic while Jessica Alba starred as The Invisible Woman, actor Chris Evans (who now portrays Captain America on the silver screen) played the Human Torch, and Michael Chiklis took on the role of The Thing.

Buckaroo's mellow nature contrasts perfectly with John Lithgow's completely over the top John Whorfin, played by consummate character actor John Lithgow, who would later become most famous for playing another alien who disguises himself as human.

The casting of the Lectroids is actually quite brilliant in that the actors look a little weird, as if they couldn't get their human masks quite right.

Last year, the actor starred as Johnny Storm / The Human Torch in Fox's Marvel film Fantastic Four.

Maybe it's the director's fault, but seeing so many bad performances all lined up in a row made me consider that few actors go for big, brave choices and raw, aggressive, messy human emotion, and that there's a similar fear of the Spalding Gray approach where one does as little as possible, as well as of the strange vibe we catch from actors working under the spell of David Lynch.

The only actor currently confirmed for the movie is Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm / The Human Torch after Fox exercised the...

So my new year's wish is that for X, actors substitute Greta Gerwig, who made sure, in Lady Bird, that even characters as peripheral to the action as Stephen McKinley Henderson's mournful high school drama teacher felt like full human beings who could have wandered in from, or off to, their own movies.

Rapper turned actor Mark Wahlberg has signed on to star as the imperilled human in Tim Burton's eagerly anticipated remake of the 1968 sci - fi classic The Planet of the Apes

Other humans appear as fellow actors dressed as pilots, government officials, warlords and generic experts.

For an industry that's always trying to emphasize the universality of white stories and how relatable it is for us to see characters as, «just like, human» it's very telling that they don't offer the same rhetoric for a film that's primarily black actors.

The actor does something special with his magnetic performance, making Les feel like a genuine human being rather than some archetype that simply serves as the Ghost of Christmas Future for his son.

Avengers: Infinity War has been described as the «most human» Avengers film by Falcon actor Anthony Mackie.

Released theatrically overseas (in some countries as a two - part movie) but presented as a television miniseries for its stateside showing, this handsome production showcases British actor Robert Powell portraying one of the best Christs the screen has seen, effectively mixing a divine countenance with recognizably human emotions.

However, as much of an actors» director as Cassavetes has been known to be, there's only so much he can do for the likes of bikini bombshell Kate Upton and perpetually - smiling male model Taylor Kinney (Zero Dark Thirty), whose inability to emote like normal humans sucks all the air out of the comedy whenever they appear on screen.

Doug Jones is one of the kindest human beings I've ever met; his performance as the monster in «The Shape of Water,» as contrasted with his ebullient personality, reminds me of Boris Karloff — my favorite movie monster actor of all time.

Establishing himself from child actor to adult Academy Award - nominee, he is perhaps best known for his roles as Moocher in Breaking Away, Kelly Leak in The Bad News Bears, pedophile Ronnie McGorvey in Little Children, the vigilante Rorschach in Watchmen, as horror icon Freddy Krueger in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, released on April 30, 2010, and most recently as Guerrero in Fox's drama Human Target.

Actor Temuera Morrison, Jango Fett in the Star Wars prequels, is in negotiations to join the cast of Warner Bros.'s Aquaman as the title character's human father, according to The Hollywood Reporter.