Sentences with phrase «major characters in this film»

Most of the major characters in the film are either comatose or nearly so, particularly Kate Winslet and her son Henry who can barely squeeze out a word.

Loving Vincent is structured as a mystery, with Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth)-- the son of a postmaster (Chris O'Dowd) who was himself a subject of Van Gogh's paintings, as are almost all the major characters in the film — wrapped up in trying to figure out whether Van Gogh actually killed himself or he was murdered.

The posters include all the major characters in the film — Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange — including the supervillain Thanos who stands in the middle looking at his gauntlet which is full of Infinity Stones.

In the last (and more problematic) shot a prostitute enters a jail cell where virtually all of the major characters in the film are revealed during one long circular pan.

A major character in the film is Seymour, a reclusive collector of rare jazz and blues 78s who has no counterpart in the Clowes comic book but who bears many resemblances to both Crumb and Zwigoff.

Not exact matches

Despite a real - life narrative stuffed with secrets and suspense, the film version quickly feels bloated as Stone treats us to scene after scene of Snowden struggling with his inner dilemma and, especially, with his devoted girlfriend, Lindsay, who is a major character in her own right.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

Nothing in this film is as daring as those choices — as played by Harrison Ford, Solo was a borderline antihero and the only major character in the original trilogy who had a dangerous edge, albeit one that Lucas and company immediately began sanding down — and as young Solo, Alden Ehrenriech doesn't convince as a cocky young pilot and smuggler who's been prematurely soured by a hard - knock life.

The other major flaw is that so much time was spent in this movie on it's stylistic looks which as i said earlier were flawless but so much time and effort was spent on these that it seems to have taken away from the character development side of the film.

Her performance is not that of an actress in a star's role, but that of an actress creating a character that happens to be major within the film.

He began his career a mere decade ago, in his mid-twenties, with films in which he and his friends played characters based on himself and his friends (among them was Greta Gerwig, whose first major role was in his 2007 film «Hannah Takes the Stairs»).

However, unlike silent star Marsh, Parker's characters usually enjoy a satisfying «worm has turned» moment — one of her first major film roles was as the abused wife in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) A more self - reliant Parker was seen in the 1990 AIDS - related TV movie Longtime Companion, as the supportive «earth mother» to a group of urban homosexual men.

While the attack on the train is compelling and one of Eastwood's best sequences, unless you are interested in a travelogue of major European cities, the rest of the film which fills in the character's back story, does not rise to the same level.

During the»30s he played high - energy, gregarious leads in many «B» - movies and second leads in major films; later he moved into character roles.

The casting clicks; the visuals have leaped right out of Dave Gibbons» original panels; the action is brutal, stylish and well - staged, and — with most of the major characters, themes and symbolism are retained in an abbreviated form — the 2 1/2 - hour film makes an enjoyably esoteric Cliff's Notes version of the book.

At the moment a direct movie adaptation of the comic can't be made by any film studio due to rights issues; several major characters who appear in the comic (including Hawkeye and the Incredible Hulk) are part of Marvel's Avengers film franchise, and therefore aren't available to be used as part of the X-Men movie franchise.

The perspective I'm coming from is one where I know who all of the major characters are, but I wouldn't bet money that I could fill in their backstories or how they're connected or give you details about what exactly they did in past films.

Among the topics discussed are the worst part of fame (Curtis says it's «isolation»), how Curtis's role (and particularly her striptease) in James Cameron's True Lies had a «major impact» on Gaga, and the challenges of filming sex scenes, plus there's a telling moment when Curtis asks «Is Gaga a character?»

This also means that Thor, Loki, and Hulk will be the first major MCU characters to encounter the Mad Titan Thanos and his loyal Black Order in Infinity War - and the results of that conflict have already been revealed in the upcoming film's first trailer.

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

He adds the film's few laughs, but his character also exposes a major flaw in the script which clouds an otherwise wacky but believable story.

In these films, the world has usually turned against humanity in some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into actioIn these films, the world has usually turned against humanity in some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into actioin some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into actioin, driving these characters into action.

Several major characters» lives are transformed in a matter of seconds, but the film moves through it, keeping the biting terror on their faces but leaving behind the connotations, the reasoning that says it will all be okay.

Late in the film, a major character is produced by a hologram, an attempt to show the way this alien thinks, but in all actuality it just reminds the viewer of how thin this character was.

Seeing as this is one of the only major elements of the film given to Adam Pally, his character feels like he is almost only in the film for this one joke.

Other than McCandless, the other major character of note in «Into the Wild» is nature itself, and it's on gorgeous display in this film.

The one major female character in this film appears to be employed in a position of control.

«This fellowship will help the soundscape of the New Zealand bush — a character in the film — come alive in a major way and take the film to the next level.

The film hits theaters on March 16 and is one of the few major studio films to ever feature a gay character in the lead role.

In 2017, there were exactly zero trans characters in any major studio filIn 2017, there were exactly zero trans characters in any major studio filin any major studio film.

Speaking of that other Valkyrie, obviously the version that Tessa Thompson plays in the film is different from the original Marvel version of the Valkyrie, as the Marvel version intentionally evoked the mythological version of the character, which is very much a Norse vision of what a woman would look like, complete with the name Brunhilde (Brunnhilde also was a major part of Richard Wagner's famous operatic «Ring» cycle).

The first man is the clever and cruel Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a bounty hunter we learn fought in the union army during the Civil War and the closest thing the film has to a lead character.

The major Caucasian characters in the film are almost all forces of opposition: Tim Roth plays bigoted governor George Wallace as a weak man raging pitifully against progress, while Dylan Baker brings a perfect squareness to J. Edgar Hoover, assigned by Johnson to spy on and possibly discredit King.

The major players are all established and while many characters are unlikable, they make sense in the film's universe.

Jon Hamm is an amazing actor and I love him in Mad Men and I can't wait to see him in a major role in feature films, even though I doubt this role will allow him to branch out into a whole new character.

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.

No, I'm talking about the Marvel franchise, which has spent years at this point establishing each one of its major Avengers characters in their own films and lightly playing with crossovers during them.

A major flaw in the film, despite Emma Stone's great screen presence, is that the character of Olive is poorly characterised and her change from confident young outcast to attention - seeking vixen is disarming and, unfortunately, takes away from the film's considerable charm in other departments.

The films from major studios were also put through the Vito Russo Test, a set of criteria to analyze how LGBTQ characters are included in a film.

The drop in on - screen LGBTQ representation is a speed bump in GLAAD's call to action to have the seven major film studios to have 20 % of their major releases include LGBTQ characters by 2021 and that 50 % of films include LGBTQ characters by 2024.

Partly because of the role she's rumoured to be taking on (scroll down for details), and partly because she's the only new major female character in the film.

Female Characters in P.T. Anderson films from Most Fascinating to Least (not comprehensive but the major ones)

Director Gracey, choreographer Ashley Wallen, songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (of «La - La Land») and cinematographer Seamus McGarvey («Atonement,» «The Avengers») think about each number as a self - contained short film, with its own «story» and little marks that the major characters have to hit in order to progress.

Co-writer Christopher Markus later clarified that number merely represents how many characters — both major and minor — that had been introduced to date in Marvel films.

How is it that a major studio film — one in which marks the first time these legendary characters meet / fight / team - up onscreen in a live - action feature — that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, has been in the planning stages for years, and is the catalyst for their own shared universe of interconnected films doesn't seem to know one thing about its title characters outside of names and costumes?

The packed, randomly peopled hallways in Anderson's first major video, made the same year he released Boogie Nights, has the breakthrough film's same energy and constant revolving cast of characters, all of whom manage to get in the way, somehow.

Thankfully though, Eastwood holds it together despite that major plot discrepancy and the film is ultimately a character study in the soul searching and what - if's throughout their lives.

None of the major films had a transgender character either, although there was an increase in the racial diversity of LGBTQ characters after two years of decline.

There are so many characters in these films, it's difficult to make them all feel important, and we're at the stage now where even major characters are effectively sidelined into cameos and supporting roles, although that is not fundamentally a problem if the script is strong, as it generally is here.

In a time when films are able to create increasingly outlandish creatures, the director always has to choose the route they'll go for major alterations in character appearancIn a time when films are able to create increasingly outlandish creatures, the director always has to choose the route they'll go for major alterations in character appearancin character appearance.