Sentences with phrase «in earlier scenes»

«All the shadows in the earlier scenes that we shot in Hawaii [were] always kind of muddy anyway on 35 mm, because we couldn't schlep all of our big arc lights down into this valley.

In later scenes, in Ex Machina, we do see Ava with hair and with clothes on, but in earlier scenes, she's much more spare and see - through in several parts of her body.

But because the deus ex machina here is not only evident from the start, and because the identity of the Rainmaker is glaringly obvious, then the conclusion to the film betrays everyone in the audience by only partially observing the rules of time travel set up in earlier scenes.

Cynthia Nixon (Sex in the City) is perfectly awful as the aging Emily, but in earlier scenes she grins her way through acerbic words with the most bizarre delivery.

The urgency of that subject, which the movie does a fine job establishing with in its earlier scenes of the football players» physical and mental deterioration, is lost as the Landesman offers the generic beats of biographical narrative.

The film plays gleefully with Australian stereotypes, and is just as cheeky in the earlier scenes set in London, a place the actors clearly never visited during the shoot.

Christian Bale is, of course, intense and serious as he portrays the inner pain of Moses, even in the earlier scenes when he and Ramses fight on the same side.

The precise evolution of her feelings during the final scene is crucial, but I was also touched by her tenderness in earlier scenes; she plays a kind woman who has been deposited into an ugly situation by the inertia and hopelessness of alcoholism.

In earlier scenes she, too, tries common cures for marital ennui: the fantasy of having a baby, dreams of exotic vacations.

In an early scene, Helen Oakes and her husband lie in bed watching news of escalating tensions in Western Europe.

In early scenes she is seen at prayer meetings, where the pastor tells her that Jesus will shield her if she encounters evil.

So when 9/11 hit, rock was already demoralized about its purpose, especially politically, and at something of a low ebb in general — you can see this in the early scenes of School of Rock.

The sense of the awesome and the mysterious in the earlier scene gives way here to theological assurance and eloquence.

Crowe plays this note fairly well in his early scenes, his downcast eyes and reserved, low voice in front of the king indicating that fealty that comes from fear of punishment rather than devotion — a fear thoroughly justified when Robin's frank talk to his sovereign on the justness of these «holy wars» lands him in the stocks with proto — Merrie Men Will Scarlet (Scott Grimes), Little John (Kevin Durand), and Allan A'Dayle (Alan Doyle).

Gosling and Dunst's low - key chemistry in these early scenes hint at the film that All Good Things might have been had it bothered to ground itself in the specifics of the Marks» romance.

The encounter that follows will reveal unexpected depths in both characters, and new layers of moral complexity in Sean Baker's unmissable Tangerine, a sneaky slice - of - life indie that comes on all casual and cinéma - verité in the early scenes, then slowly coalesces into a romantic comedy as intricately constructed as any door - slamming stage farce.

In early scenes, the faint orange luminosity of ofrenda candles and autumnal leaves are more noticeable than ever.

A docudrama that in its early scenes feels like a documentary — the co-directors have a nonfiction background, and the actors are actual carnival performers — the film plays out like a small - scale fairy tale.

In an early scene, the manager of the jewelry store (Michael Hitchcock, of «Best in Show» fame), trying to get her to show customers the «love is eternal» look to help sell jewelry, calls over a hot young thing with a ludicrous name, Kahlua (Kali Hawk), who, between flirtations with the manager, demonstrates.

As with Hathaway, Jackman appears to have starved himself to emaciation so that in early scenes, he is all gaunt cheekbones, hollow eyes and open - throated singing.

There's terrific warmth in an early scene in which she celebrates a son's birthday, and Stone and his production team are scrupulous at establishing socioeconomic specifics: This family can afford video games and a secondhand laptop, but those are as much sacrifice as luxury.

Debut director Yanne Demange does a remarkable job of ramping up the tension in the early scenes as his camera jostles with protestors summonsed by their wives and mothers» ritual banging of dustbin lids on the pavements.

olivier almost spoils it with a horrible french accent in early scenes but don't let it put u off the film; he won't be around for long.

You can practically smell the Belgian beer and backed - up lavatories in the early scenes (a testament to art director Kurt Rigolle), although over the course of more than two hours, the dive undergoes a dramatic transformation, as do the two brothers who conspire to make it the country's coolest concert venue.

Moreover, the screenplay sets up a few sturdy ideas that could have been turned into something if anyone had paid attention to them, such as a 90 - minute time limit before the police come to investigate the disrupted alarm, or automatic lights or a drone camera, established in the early scenes.

In an early scene, a reporter — played by Elisabeth Moss — asks a museum curator about a particularly opaque description in the museum's current catalog.

The drive of Roy, Alton's father, is made clear in an early scene in which the trio encounters a state trooper.

In an early scene from Megan Leavey, a master sergeant (Corey Johnson) in the Marines angrily tells the eponymous corporal played by Kate Mara that she's not the first «entitled brat» to join the Marines just to escape his or her own personal troubles rather than out of a sincere desire to protect the United States.

«Comedy is all about timing,» says Carrey's character in an early scene.

We hear from Henry's brother Jamie (Garrett Hedlund), who is blindingly suave in early scenes but brought down by his time as an aerial fighter in World War II.

«Glory» tells the story of the 54th Regiment largely through the eyes of Shaw (Matthew Broderick), who in an early scene in the film is seen horrified and disoriented by the violence of the battlefield.

A work of intelligent fastidiousness rather than vivid inspiration, Che's ultimate failure is best encapsulated in an early scene in which Guevara's quoting of Tolstoy is juxtaposed with a brutal confrontation.

There is great restraint in that early scene, which vanishes as soon as Belfort strikes out on his own.

Features commentary by film noir historian Alan K. Rode, who hosts the track and provides most of the production comments, and critic / noir maven (and fellow MSN writer) Kim Morgan, who chimes in for color commentary (and an obsessive appreciation of the pickle that J. Carrol Naish chomps in an early scene; Kim, sometimes a pickle is just a pickle) plus a gallery of stills and advertising art.

The theme of «Moonlight,» writer - director Barry Jenkins» melancholy meditation on one young man's coming - of - age, is summed up in an early scene in the film.

In an early scene, after Nick has saved the life of a yakuza in prison and has been rewarded with his freedom, he encounters a corrupt and loudly racist American bureaucrat (Rory Cochrane) still in Japan after the War (have I mentioned that we're supposed to be only a handful of years post-Hiroshima in this movie, even though the aesthetics all scream contemporary?).

In an early scene, our sardonic titular superhero (Ryan Reynolds) and his very special lady friend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) are chilling after a long day of crimefighting, watching Yentl on TV, like you do.

«I was born the son of a king,» sings the protagonist of «The Song» in an early scene — one of the more explicit moments of self - awareness regarding the story's biblical echoes.

Bill, meanwhile, who, in an early scene, is saved by Sookie from «drainers» — rogue humans who steal vampires» blood for its notorious sensory - and libido - enhancing properties (and, naturally, its black - market value)-- is eager to settle down in sleepy Bon Temps, and may get the welcome mat if Sookie's kind grandmother (Lois Smith) can get her Civil War society to accept a real (if not technically «alive») veteran of that conflict speaking at one of their functions.

His Eddie Felson, so quick - witted and seemingly imperturbable in the early scenes, eventually drops his foxy pose to reveal some of the raw vulnerability of his Hustler days.

In its opening minutes, Nymphomaniac signals the brutality in store, with the rain pinging off tin roofs cut short by Rammstein's «Führe Mich,» a rupture of tranquility and forecast of bad - things - in - store that recalls Michael Haneke's use of a raucous John Zorn in the early scenes of his Funny Games.

In an early scene in Paul Schrader's new film, First Reformed, Ethan Hawke's Reverend Toller counsels a young man in crisis, telling him, «wisdom is holding two contradictory truths in our minds simultaneously.»

«Stories remain in our hearts,» he tells her in an early scene, and that theme remains prevalent throughout these well - rounded 90 minutes.

Her death is heavily foreshadowed in an early scene, where the fuschia - haired lass gets so turned on talking about death in a cemetery («Do you ever fantasize about being killed?

In an early scene, she is shown juggling glasses (Cleo grew up in a vaudeville family) but that is the one time in the movie in which she is not reacting to or worrying about her husband.

In an early scene, Andrew goes to the local arthouse movie theater with his father (Paul Reiser, whose warmth and understanding is a nice counterbalance to Simmons» hair - trigger volatility).

In an early scene his grandmother catches his character perfectly when she calls him a «mardy arse», local vernacular for his being moodily withdrawn (it was a nickname that Lawrence was called at school).

Yes, the structure of the original is there, and even some of the visuals seem to be a bit mirrored — particularly in the early scenes of Josh Brolin's character's imprisonment — but once it gets rolling, Lee seems to be making his own impression on the story.

Only Catherine Keener, who shows up in the early scenes as Mrs. Phillips, is a familiar face.)

That's an image invoked directly in an early scene by Juan, a memory from his own childhood related to young Little perhaps to urge the boy to see the beauty in his own being, his own body.