Sentences with phrase «interesting central character»

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In Charles Dickens» perennial classic, A Christmas Carol, the central character, Ebenezer Scrooge — «a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner» — is redeemed only when he is drawn away from his narrow self - interest and obsession with money.

So the fact that he confirmed his interest in the young English defender Tyrone Mings, as reported by The Mirror, is fairly out of character for the Prof.. The 21 - year old is currently playing in the Championship for Ipswich Town and his usual role is as a left back, but at 6ft 3in and with his power and pace, it is thought that he could easily make the switch to central defence, which is coincidentally the weakest part of the Arsenal squad right now.

The most interesting part... lies in the sharp dialogues and in the central character that functions as the guiding thread of a story that hides dramatic trimmings within the same comedy... [Full review in Spanish]

The far - from - engrossing vibe is compounded by a quizzical dearth of action or suspense oriented interludes, and it does, as a result, become more and more difficult to work up any real interest in or sympathy for the central character's exploits (which proves especially problematic by the time the twist - laden finale rolls around).

Central Intelligence demonstrates an above - average interest in story and character, and tries, if not always successfully, to craft real comic situations and action sequences.

Writer / director Alex Garland delivers a striking and impressively captivating opening stretch that instantly captures the viewer's attention and interest, with the movie's compelling atmosphere heightened by Portman's stirring work as the conflicted, grieving central character (and it's clear, too, that Portman's costars fare just as well, though Leigh's bizarrely ambivalent take on her character is questionable at best).

The kind of film that makes you wish they had perfected choose - your - own - adventure technology for movies, one that would allow you to ditch the central character and follow any number of the story's more interesting second bananas.

There's no rule that says a movie must have a likable character at its center, but it helps if a nonlikable central character is at least interesting.

Jarecki's inability to transform the two central characters into figures worth rooting for and caring about proves disastrous, and there's consequently never a point at which the viewer is able to work up even an ounce of interest in their ongoing exploits.

Jason Clarke, Keri Russell and Tobi Smit - McPhee make up the central human characters, and it is a little disappointing that their story isn't more interesting.

Larraín has an interesting way of crafting his version of her story almost as if it's a suspense film with his central character always on the precipice of completely losing it.

The full realization of Akikazu's character as the central vantage point allows Tetsuya to indulge in a hyper - frenetic sort of mania without disorienting the audience and causing them to abandon their interest in what he has to offer.

Its central theme (the danger inherent in our fears) isn't explored all that well, and the central character, Newt (Eddie Redmayne) isn't interesting enough to build a narrative around.

My main complaints are with the actors who play Levin and Kevin, who are too boring to hold my interest, yet whose characters are central to the novel.

What Unknown has going for it is a series of interesting shots and camera angles which offer the audience a unique viewpoint and insight into the perspective of the central character.

Eden rivals the recent Blue Is the Warmest Color in emotional potency, in addition to this central romantic throughline, we also see the doomed relationships with other impressive, interesting and nuanced female characters, played by Greta Gerwig, Golshifteh Farahani, Laura Smet and Léa Rougeron.1

The most interesting character also happens to tidily encapsulate Cut Bank's central shortcoming.

Rosemarie DeWitt's massage therapist is the central — and least interesting — character in a disappointing ensemble piece

That the central character is never made out to be an entirely interesting figure certainly doesn't help matters, though actor first - time actor Gabe Nevins acquits himself nicely with a surprisingly effective portrayal.

The film - which follows a group of high schoolers (including Devon Sawa's Alex, Ali Larter's Clear, and Kerr Smith's Carter) as they avoid a plane crash yet find themselves pursued by a sinister force - is subsequently rife with expository interludes designed to explain the series» ongoing mythology, and although waiting for the central characters to catch up to what we already know sporadically does become a little tiresome, there's little doubt that Wong's unexpectedly cinematic sensibilities prove instrumental in capturing and sustaining the viewer's interest from start to finish.

The film's first act is devoted almost entirely to dialogue - heavy sequences in which the Nazis test out their rockets and the Allies attempt to track them down, and it's not until the trio of central characters embark on their risky mission that things finally start to get interesting.

Slow, not terribly interested in lore or internal logic, and fatally hamstrung by the choice of actors like Billy Crystal and a zombified Emily Mortimer to voice its American dub, it's a regression for Miyazaki from his last two films (Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away) in almost every sense, starting with his decision to have a lonely young woman as the central character in place of the prepubescent little girls front and centre in most of his masterpieces (the last two films, Kiki's Delivery Service, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and My Neighbor Totoro) and ending with a gross simplification of his usually complex themes of confidence and actualization into a colourless, flavourless drone about the hard - to - dispute badness of war.

The detective, Charlie Northern, is a fan of books about space aliens and looks like he will be an interesting guy to follow around; the other characters are straight out of central casting.

Of course, the love affair between Mamah and Frank is central to the story, but Loving Frank is first and foremost the story of Mamah's life, and although the relationship between her and Frank is interesting, it is the exploration of her character and the period details that impact her life that keep the reader enthralled, as she struggles to reconcile her need to be with Frank, her need to be with her children and perhaps most powerful of all, her need to discover who she is herself.

Something that we are consistently seeing is that the self published reader is much more inclined to show interest in an author with multiple books for sale, especially if a brand around a central character, or group of characters, has been created.

This is not as good as «Girl With One Pearl Earring» by a wide margin, and William Blake seems more like an extra character, not the central focus as the title would suggest, but the story and the characters kept me interested all the way through.

By telling a summarized version of your story ten different ways, you get new ideas about your book's core essentials, who the main important characters are, which ideas are most central, and how to structure your book in the most interesting way possible.

In this age of Ultra Street Fighter IV, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 and BlazBlue: Central Fiction, the size of the roster in Street Fighter V is a little disappointing, but at least the new faces are fun and the returning characters are interesting.

Both games feature a «Commander» unit, a giant mecha, which uses atomic - level manufacturing to build an entire economy on far - off planets literally from the ground up, which is an interesting inversion on how mecha usually are used in games: the «Commander» is more or less the player character, and while their large mecha is by no means weak, it's a central unit because of its production capabilities, and not because of its arsenal, which as a mecha fan I always thought was a nice way to work the idea of a «hero mecha» into an RTS, because you can relate to the Commander mecha's role as, well, a Commander on the battlefield rather than as simply a powerful named «hero» unit as exist in most other RTSes.

The Story mode of the game is the most interesting, especially for those who have limited information about the events that have taken place in the universe centered around the central cast of characters.

It is filled with interesting and unusual characters, outlandish scenes, parodies of the golf industry, and the central underdog journey.