Sentences with phrase «led by its female characters»

But having the year's top - grossing movie led by a female character has become downright commonplace over the past few years: The «Star Wars» prequel spin - off «Rogue One,» starring Felicity Jones the daughter of an Imperial scientist who the Rebel Alliance and leads a team determined to steal the Death Star plans, was the highest grossing film of 2016, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.

Coogler also talked about his enjoyment of the portion of the film led by its female characters, as T'Challa is incapacitated.

Not exact matches

On here looking for genuine female friends - leading to a beach and paddling at dawn - im larger than life character - def a book you should not judge by the cover - lots of interesting stories inside - i like going to watch friends rock band — writing - meeting and talking - im self employed - last job was a steeplejack - but fell through a floor - oops i guess best place to start is to talk to me - best description is a giantgentlebear - im looking for someone to talk too any where in the world or outer

And this brings us to the critical backlash to this film: a feeling in some quarters that for all its powerful and compelling female lead, the movie appears obtuse on race and blackness by making it a subsidiary function of the white characters» moral journey.

• OSCAR WINNING ROLES: If by some miracle Bryan Cranston won he'd be the second actor to win for playing a previous Oscar winner (the first being Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator) • GENDER: If by some miracle Eddie Redmayne won it'd be the first leading actor win for a female character though not the first Oscar win for someone playing another gender — that was Linda Hunt as a male photographer in The Year of Living Dangerously (1983) • MULTI-HYPHENATES: Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio have also been nominated outside of acting categories.

It comes as no surprise that Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) is practically the main character — another in the long line of strong female leads written by Whedon.

Everything about it promises negligibility, and the promise is kept: a less - than - super star (Coburn), a female lead whose potential has scarcely ever been fully realized (Lee Grant), some character actors who stopped getting — or making — good parts some time ago (Andrews, Hendry), a forgettable British sub-leading man who muffed his one big chance (Jayston — Nicholas of Nicholas and Alexandra), an anonymously pneumatic foreign blonde (Christiane Kruger), an English hack with conspicuously unimaginative pretensions to distinction (Hughes), and above all the tiresomely formulaic genre in which doublecrosses are so taken - for - granted by the audience that no degree of geometric complication can do more than increase the boredom.

Ant - Man underscores just how much Marvel has struggled with its women characters (with its female lead, played by Evangeline Lilly, desperately wanting to join the action and being stopped by men at every turn), and its villain is one of the worst in the Marvel canon, which is saying something.

As a mainstream movie co-written by a woman, with a female lead and mostly featuring other female characters, it is something of a rarity.

Britney is the lead female character in Toad Force V, an implied action TV show mentioned several times in Mario Party Advance; Britney herself is only brought up briefly by Mushbert in the mission DVD For Me.

By using proven character actors, a convincing female lead and children who can act John Eric and Drew Dowdle have done two things.

Created by the New York animators the Fleischer Brothers (Max, the eldest of the three, produced; Lou animated and later supervised the music; their little brother, Dave, directed), she was, as the animation historian Donald Crafton puts it in his recent study, «Shadow of a Mouse» (University of California Press), «one of the earliest cartoon characters to be a fully fleshed - out human being and the only classic» toon star generated as female (neither Minnie nor Daisy were leading ladies).»

Momentum and Assassin boast badass female leading characters, played by Olga Kurylenko and Qi Shu, respectively.

(For example, even the incredibly wise Sarah Polley, who made this weekend's wonderful; Stories We Tell, conceded at a Q&A for the film that she hadn't even noticed her lead female characters are defined by their relationships with their male partners, as pointed out by an older woman in her audience.)

Continuing in the raunchy female - led trail blazed by Bridesmaids it is funny but it also has great heart, characters and a real emotional backbone.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Warner Bros. film is expected to be based on DC's «Birds of Prey» property, which centers on a female - led team that debuted in the comics in 1995 and has included characters over the years such as Barbara Gordon / Batgirl, Poison Ivy, Catwoman and Katana (who was played by Karen Fukuhara in the 2016 movie «Suicide Squad»).

«I'm inspired by the «strong female lead» tag because I can see a trend in the newer media content that is being produced for youth,» tilting toward more female characters who are strong leaders and who succeed at whatever they're doing.

Her story will be enjoyed by readers who relish strong female leads and by those who like following the vacillating emotions of characters; I'll be shelving my copy near novels like Kathryn Stockett's The Help and Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife.

Toggling back and forth between present crime and past mystery gives French time and space to develop her characters, leading to that rare depiction of a platonic male - female relationship that you just wish could last forever, but you know will eventually get ruined by — guess what — gender stuff.

The Girl Before by Rena Olsen (Putnam, August 6) In this thriller, readers aren't even sure of the lead female character's actual name, or whether she can be considered a victim.

hi im interested on ur work but i do nt have much budget my name is luther john and i created our very own first princess fairy tale called the last moondancer Princess Luna the lead female protagonist is based on the character of ancient Babaylans before the spaniards discovered the philippines She was adopted by the oldest moondancer in puerto princesa After a cursed volcanic eruption in mt mayon and was trained all her life to become a moondancer but all her life she only dreams of finding this magical pearl which believed to be the tear from the Gods that grants ur wishes Moondancers can heal any kind of sickness when they dance and their powers wer gift from the Goddess of the Moon Mayari

the female character in that is the most ineffectual useless character i've ever seen in a video game, you literally have to lead her by the hand virtually everywhere.

Truth be told she feels like a victim of a writing team trying desperately to appease a certain demographic by having a «strong» female lead characters that completely forgot to make her an actual person in the process with strengths, flaws, desires, hates and motivations of her own.

The controversial decision to add gender - locked Rust female character models led to an increase in sales of 74 %, according to a recent Tweet by Rust game creator Garry Newman.

Before joining Riot, Burch was the lead writer for 2012's Borderlands 2 by Gearbox Software, a sci - fi multiplayer shooter styled to look like an issue of 2000 A.D. Burch was also responsible for creating Ellie, a character in the Borderlands 2 universe who, until Sigrun, was the closest thing we had to a humane and empowered fat female character.

For one, Mass Effect did it by making a female variant of the game's lead character and the franchise has gone on to become one of the most recognized in the video game industry.

While, in these series, she placed her black female body into spaces, like museums, where black women have historically been underrepresented, Weems, in Scenes & Take, celebrates the renaissance of television shows with strong black lead characters by black creators like Shonda Rhimes and Lee Daniels.