Sentences with phrase «lone character»

Russian artist Taus Makhacheva is known predominantly for her video - based works, often set within the evocative and vast landscapes of Dagestan and featuring a lone character attempting near impossible feats.

Painting this lone character exploring, what often looks like, an apocalyptic Earth.

Rather than having hordes of enemies to fight, they're represented as a lone character, so if you want to fight them you then go into a traditional RPG battle view with the good guys on the left, and the bad guys on the right.

Despite all the flak that the Dynasty Warriors series and games of similar ilk get, there is something quite cathartic about absolutely mowing through legions of armies while controlling a lone character.

Ni - Oh was first announced by Koei for the PlayStation 3 waaay back in 2005, and judging by the trailer below (courtesy of IGN) it was set to be yet another Dynasty Warriors, wide - open battlefields, a lone character taking on hundreds of thousands of identical soldiers killed with a single swing of their spear.

Once you take your lone character and venture out into the world for a bit, things start to get interesting.

What made Resident Evil a massive achievement was its survival horror elements, controlling and following the journey of one lone character and exploring claustrophobic and eerie environments, all contained in one location and building up suspense as you worked your way through well - thought out puzzles and fought off creepy enemies.

Set in different eras, each story focuses on a lone character adrift and in need of love.

Since a lone character can't generate many laughs, circumstances at the convention cause Lippe to find himself roommates with a very noble Ronald Wilkes (Isiah Whitlock, Jr from «The Wire») and fast - talking poacher Dean Ziegler (John C Reilly).

Her lone character trait is that she rambles all her thoughts out loud.

Clusters of individuals and lone characters populate the scene where hierarchies, factions, prima donnas, leaders and minions coexist together: mirroring relationships in the workplace, the staffroom and the boardroom.

Not exact matches

Charismatically played by Zazie Beetz, the character also represents this film's most quietly subversive touch: As she puts it, Domino's lone gift is a knack for being «extremely lucky,» which Deadpool initially doubts qualifies as a superpower.

«Rusty» stands as the lone well - written character in this pathetic «drama».

Nearly every character has a raging conflict within them (Daniels's Abe is perhaps the lone exception) and Johnson fluidly presents these conflicts and resolves them in completely unique and often visually dazzling ways, from both Joes to Blunt's haunted mother to Gagnon's brooding, quixotic boy wonder.

The plot is timely: A Russian politician has been murdered, and Oh's character, Eve, must shield the lone witness from an assassin.

They're joined on their adventure by a lone hero, a loyal castle guard, and eventually a full cast of lively and lovable characters designed by legendary artist Akira Toriyama.

The scenes and character introductions feel random, the time jump implausible, and no one is all that compelling, especially the lone male lead, Hemsworth.

A pale imitation of the first film that boasts some terrible acting and even worse writing — and that doesn't even include the laughably misogynistic undertones that crop up once Katee Sackhoff's lone female character is introduced — «Riddick» doesn't really progress the overall story any further, leading one to question why another movie was necessary at all.

The most one can say in defense of this mirthlessness is that the film settles into a mildly pleasant melancholy in the last act, as Alan, always the purest character and lone source of grace notes, finally gets to come of age.

You'll also get to assume control of a variety of characters, though you'll start with Meliodas as your lone option.

We hear a marriage described as «a lone drink of water from a frozen fountain,» and watch a character walk slowly away before turning on heel to proclaim, «I will tell you one thing»!»

Passing into his orbit are a big - hearted bank teller (Holly Hunter), who takes an inexplicable shine to this mumbling recluse; a seedy acquaintance (Harmony Korine, behaving like a character in a Harmony Korine movie); and his justifiably fed - up son (Chris Messina, responsible for the film's lone traces of recognizable human behavior).

Lara might be best known as a lone wolf, but with three other characters neatly written into the plot, the new guys don't pose as a problem.

Amos (relative unknown Boyd Holbrook, terrific)-- the lone survivor — along with Owen (Jacob Lofland from Mud, here equally as strong)-- a boy who has lost his father — and Diane (Elizabeth Banks, quite fine)-- the wife of the mine manager — form the three main characters around whom swirls the town's drama.

Tauriel (a lone female character created by Jackson, due to Tolkien's neglect of including anyone of the fairer sex) discovers dwarves are people too as she enjoys conversations through the prison bars with Kili (Aidan Turner).

Marginalized in the initial sequences was Reeves, the lone actor well - known in the U.S. Universal opted to reshoot a major fight scene near the end of the film, as well as a few other scenes to sharpen the focus on Reeves» character Kai.

«Alan Turing wasn't just a lone, troubled genius who was awkward and difficult and different,» Benedict Cumberbatch (with Morten Tyldum) said about his «The Imitation Game» character.

There are some issues — Seyfried's character is particularly underserved by the script, and exists largely as a lone vision of purity for Toller as he begins to distrust everything around him.

Whereas the earlier films, mostly shot by Dietrich Lohmann, often framed the groups or members of the group in static tableaux in order to highlight their solidarity and opposition to a lone outsider, this film (Fassbinder's ultimate collaboration with Michael Ballhaus) uses an almost constantly moving camera and a remarkable succession of framing and fracturing devices within the camera frame to underscore the shifting alliances, individual isolation, and internal struggles of the characters.

The lone new actor who seems likely to stick around is Lawrence Gilliard Jr., who joins fellow «Wire» veteran Chad S. Coleman, though I don't believe their characters ever crossed paths on their old show.

The film could easily have been a done - in - one, a lone thrilling, character - driven fright-fest.

«I really, really like what Rian has done with these characters, in terms of their relationship, and the idea that they're two sort of lone figures (on obviously opposite sides) going through this parallel experience.

Willem Dafoe, Best Supporting Actor, The Florida Project (2 prior nominations) One of the most singular character actors of the past 30 years, Dafoe may finally win in 2018 — he's the lone nominee from a film many feel was robbed of a Best Picture nomination.

After well over an hour of character development through conversation (with the occasional elbow to the face, almost always directed at the lone woman), Tarantino's taste for violence surfaces in a tense showdown that kills off a character.

There's also a driver-less smart car that attempts to kill Lou, and a scene in which Adam Scott's character repeatedly vomits all over himself (which, admittedly, was the lone funny sequence in the film).

«Star Wars» veteran Mark Hamill walked the red carpet, the lone Jedi at the premiere, although his character seemed to have a final moment in «The Last Jedi.»

The «lone - wolf hero» — the man who takes on a corrupt Establishment and operates outside the law, in order to right injustices — is an iconic character in fiction, going back many hundreds of years.

If you try to do a 2 vs 1 by selecting «3 players» as seen in the video below, the game will automatically select an additional character for the lone person.

The plot centres around Vahlen building a super weapon somewhere in Africa and is mostly advanced through dull cutscenes between missions that are narrated by Karl Fairburne, the lead character and titular elite sniper / lone wolf.

But ODST does hit back thanks to it's co-op campaign gameplay, allowing you and up to 3 other friends to battle the Covenent, the wierd thing is that the story tell you that you're a lone Trooper in hostile territory and never explains where 3 other ODST's amazingly appear from, it's the same in flashback missions it's never explained how these people got here or why they are carbon copies of the main characters.

New zerg units such as the flying viper, which can pick up and fling away a single enemy character, regardless of it being a lone soldier or a hulking colossus is in itself a stunning sight.

Bravely Default follows the story of main character Tiz, a humble shepherd and the lone survivor of a cataclysmic event, as he joins a group of loyal companions on a journey to restore balance to the world.

Those COD - style lone wolf tactics won't get you anywhere — it's a strictly team based affair and one that had just as much character synergy than a MOBA.

No matter which character you choose you will spend an hour or so fighting a lone bird over and over again outside of the first town and barely surviving.

So even though this fact never comes into play later in the game, you play the entire game aware that this is an isolated locale and that these characters are completely alone — greatly enhancing the atmosphere of the game, and all conveyed with a lone shot.

Rather than having a lone party lead by a main character, you control each of the five characters individually and can switch between them at any time.

A lone sour note on having so many characters and variations - that are all fully customizable, by the way - is that unlocking stuff takes forever.

Patrick Lakey's flatly lit blend of still life and (nude) self - portraiture, from a series in which he plays dozens of characters from the Marquis de Sade's writings, caught hold of me at The Happy Lion's booth; at Madrid's Travesia Cuatro, Gonzalo Lebrija's intimate communion between himself, wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, and the lone red canvas in a selection of On Kawara «Date Paintings» brought out the latent melancholy in any notation of time; and at Cherry and Martin, Elad Lassry's small - scale conceptual tableaux possessed at once a fierce confidence and an estranging oddness.

As for the character played by Danes (spoiler alert), she agreed to meet with the lone hacker in a nearby deserted warehouse and, after a few harrowing moments, beat him senseless to within an inch of his life to get her computer unlocked.

You emerge as the lone survivor of Vault 111, and must employ whatever means necessary in order to survive and thrive in the radioactive ruins of the U.S. Customize your character, join factions, level your skills, and even build your own base in Bethesda's epic follow - up to 2008's Fallout 3.