Sentences with phrase «like archetypal characters»

I explained to students that people, like archetypal characters, are complex.

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In a Valley of Violence begins like many oaters we've seen in the past and the archetypal characters that therein show all the hallmarks of cowboy picture platitudes; Paul (Ethan Hawke) is a self - effacing drifter who appears more like a peacenik than the dangerous army deserter we suspect him to be; Gilly (James Ransone) is a murderous intimidator; Mary - Anne (Tessa Farmiga) is a virginal ingenue; Marshal Clyde Martin (John Travolta) is the conflicted reprobate law man; and so on.

It is a cyclical film (beginning and ending with the founding of a town) with archetypal characters (father / son aggressions, mother / daughter deceptions), and it is told like Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, through image and an almost instinctual understanding of the stories inherently related by a time and a place.

Here his subjects are friends, acquaintances and archetypal characters of that period, portrayed in relaxed and happy situations: people chatting on a sofa, lovers lying in bed or a man chilling in an armchair, like in Renato e Poltrona (1965).