Sentences with phrase «humanizing characters»

The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's «magnificent gift for humanizing characters.»

The strategy depends on humanizing characters formerly known as evil, so that another tale of conflicted...

He seems to have a rich understanding of the material (he also produced the film), but I think he lacks the range of expression required to humanize this character.

It must've been difficult to deal with such a touchy suspect and humanize the characters the way they do.

Lily is Winston's first audience for his legendary speeches and builds a connection with him that helps humanize his character.

While most action stars» egos won't allow them to show pain onscreen, Chan uses pain to humanize his characters and draw humor from scenes.

Holland also humanizes the characters of the Jews, in offbeat ways.

The way he humanizes these characters is remarkable.

And it does actually sympathize and humanize these characters, keeping the picture in line with the feel - good nature of Melfi's two prior screenplays.

«McDonagh painstakingly humanizes a character who we find has unapologetically tortured a black man in police custody... and then Three Billboards seems to ask audiences to forgive and forget wrongs like police violence, domestic abuse, and sexual assault without demonstrating a full understanding of the centuries - long toll these crimes have taken on victims in real life,» April Wolfe wrote at the Village Voice.

The thing that this film does so well is that it humanizes these characters and makes them lovable, charming, and interesting, even when we see them sink their teeth into an unsuspecting victim.

However, once Ben is transmogrified into an ambulatory rock formation, there is little that Bell can do as an actor to humanize his character.

We highlight the smart little details that humanize its characters, and how wonderful it is to see Sandra Oh cast as the lead in a major series.

Many action games don't even attempt to humanize its character or the events unfolding on screen.

If anything, Prompto's shots humanize the characters in ways Final Fantasy XV's plot never achieves.

It's a way to humanize each character in war, giving you...

And they actually humanized the character and showed him struggling to keep his humanity in a society that condemned him.

Not exact matches

The characters help humanize the Avenger, who, beforehand, was just a male version of Katniss Everdeen to those unfamiliar with comics.

Most interesting comic book characters come with cool powers but, more importantly, with flaws that humanize them.

TURAN: As for Cruise, the characters he plays can be difficult to humanize.

Some characters are introduced to humanize the overnighters but none of them are interesting.

As it is, it seems she's been added into the mix to also humanize Snow somewhat, and perhaps is a small attempt to address the dimensionality issues that we mention above with regards to this character.

It humanizes Kenny, too, in the arrival of an even creepier older brother (Brett DelBuono) who uses the same language Kenny has used in humiliating Owen — the same tactics, too, in identifying the character as a representative of an Old Testament kind of retribution.

Michelle Williams humanizes All the Money in the World, and thank goodness, because the other characters are either underwritten, evil, or played by Mark Wahlberg.

The film takes the time necessary to develop the characters, humanizes ones such as Hawkeye and builds up the tension between Captain America and Iron Man that will come to fruition in «Captain America: Civil War».

Its characters are often detached and remote in a 2001: A Space Odyssey sort of way, which would be fine if they weren't humanized with complex back stories.

But what is certain about Three Billboards is that if this many people saw Dixon's arc as redemptive — and if we take the most charitable view, that it wasn't intended to trivialize the experiences of abused and tortured black characters in order to humanize a white character — then the problem is in the film itself, which allowed room for a reading that was counter to its intentions.

As she's pursued by the threatening yet slow - moving creature, who relentlessly trails her close behind, the film becomes something of a character study of victims, both monster and human — a zombie humanized with a happy past, and a woman desensitized by a more troubled one.

However, humanizing Light ultimately hurts the character's confrontation of L. Death Note has always been a story that has a lot going on, but most fans» favorite part is the cat - and - mouse game between Light and the dark and quirky detective L. Lakeith Stanfield delivers a character that feels as though it was pulled right from the manga and anime.

One reality is made to spill into another, and some of the loveliest developments — the humanizing of a disgruntled baker (Lyle Lovett) who we've encountered mainly as the disembodied telephone voice of a crank caller, and a mix - up of snapshots between two clusters of characters at a Fotomat — can be described as exercises in dialectical relativity that come about when separate fictional worlds in the movie are briefly made to converge.

Full of the lavish sets and extravagant costumes becoming of a royal family period drama, the film, steeped in monarchy, feels buoyant and vibrant in no small part thanks to the actors» ability to humanize such aristocratic characters.

Though you pretty much know how it's going to end as soon as the first few guys succumb to the deadly triumvirate of the punishing weather, dangerous terrain and hungry predators, Carnahan manages to hold your interest by taking the time to develop his characters, humanizing them beyond simple wolf fodder.

This provides relief for learners as well as «humanizes» the characters, so that learners can further identify with them and thus learn more.

With heart - breaking back story on many of the key players, such as lead thief Balthazar's downfall at the age of twelve after watching a Roman centurion skewer his baby brother in the market, Graham - Smith is able to humanize so many of the characters that have until now only been known as untouchable and godly.

Granted, he does some morally reprehensible things to accomplish his goals, but ultimately he is trying to prevent something terrible from happening, which humanizes him as a character.

The latter is especially excellent and well thought out idea, as players can receive texts and images from other characters in the game, giving some background plot while humanizing the cast.

There are some other side stories that even feature humanized versions of the game's cast of avian characters, but even these have very little substance.

While one moment the game will have you frantically on the run from authorities, the next will see you in a character building segment where players are introduced to the families of the men, humanizing each of the criminals.

These elements don't help the current story, but they are small touches that help humanize all of the characters who up to this point have seemed less like people and more like stock characterizations.

Releasing sometime in Early 2018, Sony Santa Monica's soft reboot of the God of War franchise looks to humanize the iconic Sony character pitting him in a new journey alongside his mysterious son, whom we have no background on.

To read his work as strictly pertaining to China could possibly lead one to miss some of the expressions or gestures of his characters that make his images at once humanizing and fantastical.

Have you included enough personal details to humanize you and present a fully - developed character to the audience — those details should make up about 20 - 30 % of the content — or is it focused too much on work experience and professional skills?