Sentences with phrase «living characters end»

Racial conflicts among the film's living characters end up costing them valuable time and resources; against the backdrop of attacking zombies, the racial tension of the late 1960s seems positively ludicrous.

Not exact matches

High - profile, successful, and gold - agnostic investment - world luminaries assess the macroeconomic risks of radical monetary policies and reach a similar conclusion: This will end badly: — Seth Klarman: «All the Trumans (reference: a 1998 movie [The Truman Show] in which the main character's entire life takes place on a TV set which he perceives as reality)-- the economists, fund managers, traders, market pundits — know at some level that the environment in which they operate is not what it seems on the surface....

For Balthasar, the risen Lord, who wills to be present in His Church until the end of time, can not be isolated from this constellation of historical life.13 He gives a lasting character to these figures so that believers may continue to have access to the divine life.

An appreciation of the character of a voluntary institution as a vehicle of the life of the church and a willingness to learn how the particular congregation and denomination are organized for nurture and mission so that they may accept responsibility for making these institutions work to these ends.

Not happy with his life, Hader's character travels to Los Angeles to off someone and «ends up finding an accepting community in a group of eager hopefuls within the LA theater scene.»

«Nationalism shows its character as a faith whenever national welfare or survival is regarded as the supreme end of life; whenever right and wrong are made dependent on the sovereign will of the nation, however determined; whenever religion and science, education and art, are valued by the measure of their contribution to national existence.»

There is a limit which stands not only at the end of human life as death, but which is built into the structure of human life by virtue of its creaturely character.

At the end of the film Places in the Heart, all of the characters present during the movie gather together in church, those living and those who have died.

He refers to its apocalyptic character, which means that it is a cosmic statement — it speaks of the beginning of the end of the world, it validates Jesus» life and preaching, and it establishes Jesus as a reliable revelation of God.

Both ended up affirming the «gospel of sin management» that eliminated the need for the transformation of life and character of the Christian.

2 It is helpful to refer to the publication dates of Hauerwas» books listed at the end of Muray's article to get a sense of the historical development of his thought; although the important qualification must be added that Vision And Virtue was actually published first in 1974 and therefore, besides Character and the Christian Life (which Muray does not mention), was the first of his books.

Well, God hasn't let me see the end of the story yet, but He is letting me make decisions about how the main character of my story responds to the trials and frustrations of life in the story.

As death spares no human, good or bad, the life of this great noble character had to come to an end.

He argues that toxic stress and instability on one end of the spectrum vs. overprotectiveness and lack of opportunities to overcome adversity on the opposite can lead to a deficit in developing the character traits «especially likely to predict life satisfaction and high achievement.»

By the end of a long day of critique, her «protective cloak» was at best in tatters, and perhaps that's the ultimate fate of most attempts for a media figure to live aggressively as a character rather than an honest person.

He ended his remarks today with his character's famous catchphrase, «Live long and prosper.»

His sage distillation of those decades — «After you've been to all the fistfucking clubs all over the world, you end up in a walled garden with kittens and babies, because they're the fundamental values of life that everyone identifies with,» — rings true - ish as the counsel of the kind, trustworthy uncle character he imagines himself to be in polite company.

But it's a bit like the man - child Steve Carell character in The 40 Year Old Virgin who, towards the end of the movie, makes one tiny change — boxing up his action figures — as a signifier of his life - change into manhood.

It's no surprise that after his character Dodge gets abandoned by his wife (Nancy Carell), he bumps into Penny (Keira Knightley), who is just the kind of space cadet who would benefit from a grounding force in her life... especially when the world is going to end.

The exaggerated, unambiguous expressivity and the connect - the - dots definitions of character (featuring pat confessions and reheated memories) reflect the closed - off academicism of acting workshops and screenplay pitches rather than the open - ended complexities of life.

You actually get to highly influence the story and how all of the characters (live or die) will keep pushing towards the end.

But this also means that when major, life - changing events happen in the world of the Marvel movies — like the ending of Infinity War, in which half of all sentient beings in the universe are erased from existence — they're rarely given the weight they should have, beyond some of the characters expressing, «I am feeling bad about this.»

Announcing that the 1996 - 1997 season of Roseanne would be his last, Goodman limited himself to infrequent appearances on the series, his absences explained away as a by - product of a heart attack suffered by his character at the end of the previous season.After making his 10th appearance on Saturday Night Live (2000), Goodman could be seen playing a red - faced bible salesman in director Joel Coen's award winning O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), and participated in Garry Shandling's film debut What Planet Are You From?

This character ends up being the most interesting among the group, and, with the gifted actor bringing him to quirky life, he ends up being the star of the show.

Stanwyck's character tries to break the conventions that have ruled her life and speaking of conventions, you know how My Reputation is going to end within the first 10 minutes.

By the end, though both characters have found a measure of that normalcy for themselves, there's a strong sense their real home is out in the open of the New Zealand bush, in each other's company, armed with a renewed sense of openness to life's possibilities.

Tolkien reportedly tried towards the end of his life to rewrite key parts of his books in order to make the female characters more active.

Kelly eventually leads these characters toward the inevitable, and the frankness with which he handles scenes involving end - of - life decisions, fear in the face of death, and the desire to find meaning in any of this mess is admirable.

Mathilda learns life - ending ways under the tutelage of Léon Montana (Jean Reno, playing a similar character to his role in Nikita) after her family are murdered by corrupt DEA monster Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman on extraordinary form).

Like he did in the Thompson adaptation Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Johnny Depp plays the main character — in this case, a young writer who winds up drinking a lot and pondering his life at a dead - end newspaper in Puerto Rico.

It's time to stock up on Disney Infinity characters because the toys - to - life game experience is coming to an end.

Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), «one of the best and most important directors in the world» (Richard Brody, The New Yorker), this daring, poetic and grand - scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces, who are driven to violent ends.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Characters often stare right into the lens in I, Tonya, a clamorous, dumb recounting of the bleak life and ignominious fall of figure skater Tonya Harding, whose career ended in 1994 after her alleged involvement in an attack on fellow ice athlete Nancy Kerrigan.

The role is one of Binoche's least commanding yet most touching: The character's terrified she's nearing the end of her romantic shelf life, and the star leans into her age (advanced only by Hollywood standards), playing Isabelle's vanity without a whit of her own.

Paterson is a typical Jim Jarmusch film: slow paced, quirky, filled with a diverse cast of interesting characters (with place serving as a character in and of itself), capturing the beauty and mystery of day to day living while telling a story that doesn't really have a beginning or an ending.

What's it all about: When the world learns that a comet will end life on Earth, it triggers the actions of an unusual group of characters that don't seem to have any connection to each other.

It may be news to many, but in addition to creating such larger - than - life characters as The Silence of the Lambs» Hannibal Lecter and Howards End's Henry Wilcox (not to mention, once upon a time, the titular protagonist in James Ivory's Survivi...

In the original ending of Training Day Denzel Washington's character was supposed to live so there could be a sequel.

The film is modest, unpretentious in its intelligent character study of a high school senior facing the near - adulthood pressures of the end of high school and living in a poor family.

It may be news to many, but in addition to creating such larger - than - life characters as The Silence of the Lambs» Hannibal Lecter and Howards End's Henry Wilcox (not to mention, once upon a time, the titular protagonist in James Ivory's Surviving Picasso), Welsh thespian Sir Anthony Hopkins has been engaged in a different kind of artistry, mounting a parallel career as a painter.

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The characters are so exaggeratedly helpless that the film somehow manages to achieve hilarious punchlines toward the end simply by showing them forced to adapt to the mundanity of normal life — what other film could turn «taking baby Aspirin to reduce my risk for heart attack» into a genuinely laugh - out - loud moment?

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

It's not spoiling anything to say that Steve refuses to fire the drone missile after first noticing the girl, and that's because the majority of Eye in the Sky follows its characters as they try to convince each other — and themselves — what the best plan of action is now that an innocent child's life might be ended by their decision.

Duran (Edwin Rodriguez) is never shown as anything except this antagonistic character who's willing to end the life of Pazienza which is something that even Pazienza's own teammates wouldn't do.

So between the unlikeable characters, the unfunny script, the painfully apparent product placement (you'll have a hankering for Hooters by the time the end credits arrive) and the fact that all of this actually came from the director of The Wedding Crasher, we're now living in a time when even a watchable Adam Sandler movie, let alone a good one, has become something of a pipe - dream.

The story is a vague, world is ending and we need to save it mess, and it does have that old time standard of characters involved in massive, life altering events who seem oblivious to the scope, instead focused on the mundane and adolescent interactions that most characters have.

At the end of the Q&A, the real - life leather - clad character — who has a bizarre post-credits cameo opposite Franco — joined the cast on the stage to pose for photos, but didn't address the audience.

Although the settings and the casts of characters change, these aren't stories that begin and end so much as lives that we partake of for a time and then take our leave of, cups of water snatched from an ever - flowing river.