Sentences with phrase «makes ciphers»

But money makes ciphers of them all — a poor return on any dramatic investment.

Maybe it's just harder to make this kind of film with a volunteer army: The path Swofford takes to the desert is delivered in a progression of winking flashbacks that collectively amount to that hill of beans, obscuring his character and making a cipher of his suffering.

In any case, there hasn't been a well - developed woman in a Mann film since Joan Allen's poor little blind girl in Manhunter, and true to form, Billie is made the cipher who begs her fella not to pursue the course that will lead to his ruin — although we know it's that aura of insuperable testosterone that's drawn him to her in the first place.

Not exact matches

Adam has no right to make himself into a cipher.

It would be easy to compare the film to the gangster - full works of Tarantino, but where Tarantino is skilful at getting inside the characters of his lowlifes and making you care, Drew's motley crew of social misfits remain just movie - video ciphers, rather than the anti-heroes of an insightful social drama.

«If we just become ciphers for online referendums, we shall narrow debate and make our country ungovernable», he wrote in an article named: «On why MPs shouldn't always vote for what their constituents want.»

Of course the situation is only made worse when a couple introduce you to the only other single friend in the room — an accountant or acne - laden nerd who you get ciphered off with for the rest of the night.

And yet there are only two moments that make us really understand and empathize with Lucy as something other than a cipher who represents the un-evolved human.

If anything, it makes her seem like even more of cipher.

One of Heineman's best tricks here is stripping the audience of a cipher, making it difficult to figure out who to root for.

Luckily, Chastain makes sure she doesn't devolve into a cipher for American vengeance, and her performance offers surprising depth and nuance, showing true growth and development from the ingénue crying in the corner of a CIA black site torture room to the woman who is comfortable and confident enough to lay her career on the line to make sure the CIA goes along with her plan.

Gordon - Levitt makes a meaty cipher out of ostensibly being a sidekick, while Ellen Page breaks free from Juno as the fast - thinking, likeable Ariadne.

But once we see James Franco in the orange prison garb, True Story makes a calamitous dip into obviousness: It required another cipher of an actor to complete its shame circle but instead got a cool Cheshire cat.

Some have found profundity in the images, but I found them to be empty ciphers masquerading as profundity, making Only God Forgives into the sort of film that covers up its utter lack of substance with extreme style.

But there's a major disadvantage here as well, as Xiao Hong herself remains something of a cipher for much too long in her own film, being talked about by others but not being allowed to simply be experienced without any direct filter, so the audience can make up its own mind about her.

Again, we're only talking about making sure our kids can read and cipher on grade level.

Encryption is a branch of cryptography, and involves making plain text unreadable by using an algorithm, known as cipher.

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Through the decades, Chicago's cats became muses and ciphers for the mystery of identity — roles commemorated in Kitty City, a series of drawings of cats eating, sleeping and making intense eye contact.

A maverick and a visionary in the»60s and»70s, Salvador Minuchin transformed the very idea of what a therapist was supposed to be, from the self - contained cipher sitting mostly silent behind the patient's head into something dazzlingly different — a brash interventionist willing to make people change regardless of what they were feeling or whether they even knew what they were feeling.