Sentences with phrase «make audiences care»

The three actors I mentioned didn't do a horrible job at their respected roles, but they didn't come across that likable to make audiences care when the shit hits the fan.

Jon Favreau's Iron Man wrestles with those responsibilities as well as a relatively unique conundrum: How do you make audiences care about a character whose face is hidden under a metallic scowl?

«Take Shelter» has the benefit of Michael Shannon's amazing performance, and Jeff Nichols definitely knows how to make audiences care about the characters.

It too seldom goes after powerful people over the actual business of governing because it is too hard to make the audience care.

Unlike the recent string of TV shows made into movies, like the «21 Jump Street» franchise, Peña said the intention with «CHiPs» is to be more serious in the hopes to make the audience care and be concerned about what the characters are going through.

It is possible to make the audience care about an utterly loathsome character if we understand their motivations - for instance, Gene Hackman's character in Unforgiven.

Unfortunately, Stein appears so singularly focused on the film's slick visual look that he forgets to make his audience care about (or even understand) the characters.

It's unclear whether Lin is cerebral enough to bring any of the headiness of «Star Trek,» but he is talented at finding the heart of characters and making audiences care.

This film excels in all of these areas, making the audience care about what happens to each character, whether it be the investigating couple, Lorraine and Ed Warren (Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson respectively), the tortured owners of the house Roger and Carolyn Perron (Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor), or their kids (too many to count).

Although the focus is on only a handful of characters, the screenplay does not do enough to make the audience care about them.

The supporting cast are all adequate in their roles, but none stand out or make the audience care enough for their outcomes.

Despite it's many tries, the film fails to establish any kind of family chemistry and thus fails to make the audience care about it's characters.

Vance is likely to go underappreciated for his subtle performance; he manages to make the audience care without resorting to showy theatrics.

But by that point, the film has earned its laughs by making the audience care about characters who begin the film as broad comic types, but end it as sympathetic, fully formed, multidimensional human beings.

There's an art to making audiences care about the problems of glossy Manhattanites who are suffering photogenically in their Architectural Digest - ready apartments, but neither Loeb nor director Marc Webb («The Amazing Spider - Man») seems to have the first idea of how to make these characters anything but insufferable.

Not exact matches

Vice President Joseph Biden gave a shout - out to health care startup Theranos and its founder on Thursday, as he toured the company's Newark, California, facility and then made some brief remarks before an audience of about 150 Theranos employees and press.

Exercise special care if you're demonstrating software, to make sure the audience is with you.

Many organizations make the mistake of trying to partner with the most - followed people on social media without understanding if the individual cares about your company's offerings and has an audience similar to your customer base.

This past Friday he also made an appearance at a health - care forum, where he told the 100 - person audience, «You don't level the house to fix what's broken.»

There are a few beguiling moments in Holy Motors, particularly a martial - arts sequence and an erotic dance while Mr. Oscar is dressed in a motion - capture body suit, but the road between those moments is so strewn with stalled ideas that audiences who care about character and plot are liable to take the exit to a movie that makes sense.

The ominous premonitions to a brutal season closer, the haunting performance by Brian Cranston, and the strong performances given by the supporting cast creates characters that the audience truly care about, and makes Walt's transformation all the more horrifying.

It should have been binned the second the (literal) smoke cleared, and while it's been clear for some time that Smith is either incapable of making a good movie or simply doesn't care to, Yoga Hosers may very well be the film that finally convinces audiences the emperor has no hockey jersey.

McDonald truly cared about catering to her core audience when she wrote the script, which is rare in Hollywood, where many people solely care about reaching as many people as possible to make more money.

Perkins has taken great care to make complex theorists such as Deleuze accessible to a lay audience, while still maintaining a scholarly engagement with the texts.

Both Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga build upon their efforts to humanize Ed and Lorraine for audiences who may have thought of them as frauds, and there are two particularly touching moments involving these two that stood out among the scares to continue to make us care about their marital and spiritual journeys.

Echo Bridge could clearly get more out of their investment just by knowing what they have and making sure it reaches the audience that would care.

«Ends up a better than average atmospheric thriller with well developed characters that the director makes sure the audience cares for» — Gilbert Seah, Festival Reviews

While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white cinematography is quite beautiful to behold (Gröning's film certainly features some excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life, including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her, including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the film is, or what it tries to accomplish.

Sidney Hall attempts to manipulate the audience by trying to make them care about characters without given a single reason to.

It's made for one type of audience: the ones who like everything to look dark and cool, and if there isn't a thought - provoking story to go with it, who cares?

Paramount has a plan in place to make literally thousands of these movies, including the upcoming Bumblebee spinoff, and it's going to be tough to convince audiences they should care about future movies if they don't even care about the movie that's in theaters now.

It has nothing of the depth and complexity of, say, Lady Bird (2017), but it does the job of making the horror properly horrific: These are fully rounded characters the audience cares about when bad things happen to them.

So the audience is asked to care about the mountain of muscle's relationship with an albino gorilla made threatening by the machinations of an evil corporation spearheaded by two thin comedic characters that barely register.

Kelly and Ben are never a convincing couple in the least, meaning that later on, when they're so gung - ho about saving one another, it's hard for the audience to care whether or not they make it through the night at all (some people possibly even praying that they don't, lest the movie drag on).

This is perhaps the first zombie film that portrayed realistic and relateable characters to the audience, therefore making the action sequences all the more intense because you actually care about them and fear for their safety.

With spotty acting, superficial developments, and rules that seem to be made up as the film moves along, Dead Silence is strictly only of interest to audiences who are all about scary images set to ominous music, caring far less about a good storyline to follow or characters who do or say things that might be plausible to anyone who experiences them in real life.

The filmmakers gamely attempt to make an audience feel invested in Vision and Wanda, two characters whose development has happened almost entirely off - screen — not even Paul Bettany's considerable puppy dog eyes could make me care about their relationship.

It's true that the task ahead is enormous, that the impressive success of the Common Core - ites thus far amounts to running a really fast first two miles in a marathon, but that's more cause — not less — for taking care to make their case in every quarter and to every audience.

«You end up making content that is more engaging because you understand what your audience cares about», he says.

Making Caring Common partnered with Ashoka to develop a set of strategies and recommendations for building empathy targeted to academic audiences and practitioners.

Make it easy for your audiences and filter the data down for them, so they immediately see the data they need and care about.

I agree with Ms. Meyers about this: Your audience doesn't care about your stagefright (unless you can make that funny, of course.)

For that audience that does care, though, a matter of days or even hours can make a difference.

Hollywood just doesn't care, and audiences don't make them care.

Make sure that the reason for your announcement is clear and that your audience understands why they should care about what you are saying.

Make sure that you give the audience a reason to care.

If authors did the same thing - tweet and blog and otherwise provide useful, interesting, compelling information - and (only as the publication date approaches) every so often ask readers to buy their books, they would find that their audience really cares to make the purchase.

Which begs the question as to whether significant fractions of your reading audience care enough about how Amazon behaves to make extra effort to get your work through a different venue.

Here's what I cared about: I couldn't put down the book; my twenty - three year - old assistant couldn't put down the book; I thought Lisa's background as a neuroscientist with a Ph.D. from Harvard University provided her with an instant platform; she had the savvy and the sophistication to have hired a PR firm for her self - published book; she was writing about a topic that had a huge audience; she had already made deep connections within the Alzheimer's community.

Goodbrey took great care to walk the audience through the development and research aspects of the Electricomics project, explaining that research papers will be produced along the way as tools are developed for the app so that the experiment process can benefit others as part of their grant requirements, making this a significant project from an academic perspective as well.