Sentences with phrase «just as character actors»

Sakamoto and Kozo are among the many regulars who turn up so often in Ozu's work they register as fixtures, just as character actors like Ward Bond and Victor McLaglen do in John Ford's films.

Not exact matches

Just keep in mind that some people refused to see that movie over the race of some of the actors cast as nordic characters.

Then the lead actor says, «I think my character shouldn't just be the captain of the starship, he should be the juggling captain of the starship,» and everyone agrees and keeps shooting, making changes as they go.

The game controller - style joysticks and buttons allow the camera operator to change perspective within the virtual 3 - D space; move the camera down and tilt it up and the monitor displays a CGI character from below, just as if you were pointing a real camera at a real actor.

But Brewer proved that by casting actors who understood their characters» emotions and motivation, and who had an extensive dancing background, remakes can be just as motivational as their original counterparts.

I really really dislike the main character like he's actually in real life gonna get the girl of his dream, are you serious??? He has a crooked smile, wears pajamas all day outside of his house and talk's like a gay poet, I just think he sucks as an actor, uggh I don't know why I dislike him so much after this movie.On the other hand Rachel Bilson is very cute and not as bad of an actor This movie solely focuses on telling the story and making us like the characters for themselves.

Now that we had the Oscars last night, it is time to gather a list of games that enhanced their storytelling by featuring real - life actors, actresses and other celebrities — not just as voice actors, but sometimes even as the main characters.

With an excellent cast of character actors in all of the roles, as well as terrific costumes, sets and special effects, no expense was spared in getting the look and feel of the eerie world the Addams» inhabit just right.

Edison Chen and Shawn Yue portray the younger Ming and Yan, just as they had done briefly in the first film, and while they are fine in their own way, this film really belongs to Hong Kong's veteran character actors Anthony Wong (The Medallion, Cat and Mouse), Eric Tsang, and Francis Ng.

That's not to say the performance wasn't great and that the film wasn't one of the best of the year — it just wasn't the type of film that garners awards for its actors as it was far more concerned with docudrama authenticity than it was with giving its actors full - bore characters to develop.

All the other actors are trying to do their job seriously and trying to portray theirs characters at least as believable but you can tell that any time Adam, David, Rob, Chris, and Kevin where in a scene together they where just goofing off with each other rather than make a movie.

He just has very little opportunity to suggest real menace and sell his plan (taken apart, I think his plan has some flaws), and while introduced to set up for their own movies, Boseman and Holland are both excellent additions as both actors and characters

The extras on this disc are a little disappointing as they're just basic little promos like a few of the actors talking about their characters or the main cast and Director talking about the production as a whole.

Hemsworth wears his facial hair as a sign of the character's battered - but - unbowed soul, but in Evans» case it looks as if it's not just Rogers but the actor who has grown a bit depressed at the prospect of being Captain America.

«Behind the Brick» (4:13) finds the movie's characters talk about the movie as if they are just actors making a movie.

Having just seen Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, as well as American Ultra and The End of the Tour, I'm reminded of his range as an actor and how easy it is for him to submerse himself into a character.

Much of this positivity can be credited to the casting of Gal Gadot in the title role, a role that she will no doubt be associated with for pretty much the rest of her career in the same way that Christopher Reeve was with Superman, and that isn't to say either actor is typecast but they just nailed everything about the character they portray so much that it is difficult to think of them as anything else.

To underline the point, director Matt Reeves frames a sequence of Gary Oldman shuffling through family photographs on his iPad, the glow from the screen quietly lighting the actor's tearful, joyful face; and then repeats the trick a few scenes later, with an entirely CGI character delivering just as complex a scene in total wordlessness, with a different glowing screen and different family pictures.

This is easily Voight's show, as he tears into his character with the energy of an actor who just wants to memorable in a film that is mostly likely going to be banished to a bargain bucket.

According to the actor, staying in character as Wiseau the whole time just made things easier on him and less confusing for his cast and crew.

We don't really get a good look at the character (we'll get plenty of that with this summer's The Wolverine), as Singer just provides an image of Jackman's back while the actor gets fitted for his X-Men costume.

The Oscar nominated actor has proven that he can play different character and this role just seems as if he is re-treading.

David Keith is a good actor, but his role here as a flaming gay Hollywoodite is abysmally offensive, although Keith actually makes the character surprisingly sympathetic despite the stereotypes (maybe because we just feel sorry for David Keith himself).

Apart from anything else, cis actors get an annoying «bravery» bonus from the other cis actors who vote on awards — just as able - bodied actors are rewarded for playing characters with disabilities, playing trans is seen as a demonstration of a cis actor's commitment to the craft.

Everyone is pitch - perfect, and it's a testament to Tom as a director, who understood what each of these roles would take and to the actors, for doing the research to get these characters just right, and to Tom and Josh Singer for writing brilliant roles.

The characters in Hero are understood not simply in terms of the single film they're in, but in relation to the whole history of martial arts films (and perhaps just as significantly for that film, in relation to the careers of its lead actors, Jet Li, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung).

After a few comments from the actors — Lilly knows almost nothing about her character as she's not yet seen a script, Stoll alludes to his character being the scientist bad - guy, and Rudd prepares for superhero stardom — they played a video made just for Comic - Con, as the film hasn't started any filming.

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can, from my character's point of view, and let the audience decide.»

The seven cuts are presented either in different stages of animation (sometimes just with actors» faces pasted on characters) or in performance capture, each enough to appreciate as it would have played in the film.

Perhaps this is intended to establish each of the characters as having strong personalities; or perhaps it's just a good way to satisfy the actors» egos.

Now the actor plays a character who's just trying to keep a weekend's worth of fishing and relaxation intact as he fights away a group of strange college kids in the woods.

How much, as an actor, do you take responsibility for that, and how much do you just look after your own character?

Hader's character is more allowed to embrace comedy (the subject material is so dark and bleak that the script does need the actors to tell jokes just for the audience's survival), his character using dry sarcasm as a shield against the gritty reality of life.

Do you have to adjust your directing style for movie stars or do you just think of them as character actors?

Craig's character, as well as that of Ford, are bad men with good qualities underneath, nuanced thanks to the quality of the actors to be more than just white hat and black hat Western archetypes.

But almost all of the firemen get their moments to create vivid characters as well, as the film assembles a great team of character actors, including Taylor Kitsch, James Badge Dale, Geoff Stults, and Scott Haze, to name just a few.

Its best episode was its season finale, and in particular the performance of character - actor Michael Cyril Creighton (who was so impressive in a small role in Spotlight last year) as a quasi-shut-in who accepts a delivery of weed just for the company.

At a push I would say Josh Brolin as Thanos was great, but the truth is each performance was just as good as the rest, when you have actors like Robert Downey Jr and Chris Evans who have played these characters for so long, you just accept what they do with the character because you hope they know what they're doing.

As each actor, especially Joe Swanberg who plays Drake, begins to talk and show what type of stereotypical character they are going to play, I sat in my seat just waiting for them to die.

Of course, Iannucci also provides a few middle - term characters — notably the sweetheart of the movie, Stalin's daughter Svetlana (Andrea Riseborough), whose sincerity and intelligence somehow have not been poisoned by the general indecency, and the movie's hero, Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who is ahistorically trim and chisel - featured as embodied by Jason Isaacs, an actor who always seems to have one lock of hair dangling dashingly over an eyebrow, and so provides just the wish fulfillment the audience needs.6

Veteran character actor Ivanec, as an amoral scientist, is willing to do just about anything to get at Cole's secrets, including vivisection; and then there's the mysterious, murderous older gentleman (Tom Noonan, billed only as The Slender Man) who dresses like a genteel grandpa and covers his victims in flowers.

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.

J.K. Simmons is outstanding as always (see: Spider - Man, Thank You For Smoking), just below John C. McGinley in terms of character actors who I idolize and you should too.

The core concept, which follows a young man who seems entirely unlikely to participate in an illegal narcotics ring as he does just that, is intriguing, and the movie's central character, anchored by a really fine performance from the lead actor, becomes a fascinating collection of paradoxes.

Built on facts but willing to depart from them to serve its own storytelling needs, the movie places the same winning emphasis on characters, who are exquisitely brought to life by four actors who starred in the director's two prior films, all of whom landed Oscar nominations (for both performances), plus Jeremy Renner, who would have been just as worthy of a nod.

Reynolds is a good enough actor that Wade Wilson's pain and despair and confusion register as strongly, and are as important to the character and his performance, as the fourth wall - shattering sassiness and boyish irreverence that hasn't just made ol' Pool a bona fide pop culture icon but have transcended the movie and bled all over pop culture.

Just two projects into his filmmaking career, writer - director - actor Tom McCarthy is already establishing himself as the best friend of the veteran character actor.

He did not just rely on looks and action poses to be convincing as a kung fu master because director Wong Kar - wai asked all actors to «get inside the characters» bones».

As for the other actors, they just kind of bounce off Neeson's character as he pieces together the mysterAs for the other actors, they just kind of bounce off Neeson's character as he pieces together the mysteras he pieces together the mystery.

If you just couldn't get enough of the stories about Jared Leto's in - character harassment of his Suicide Squad castmates, then we have some good news for you: Another actor known for blurring the boundaries between life and art is being considered for a role as the Clown Prince of Crime.