Sentences with phrase «many white character»

Lighting to white characters means that black ones are shadowed.

McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson are so good in Three Billboards that I think a lot of voters have totally forgotten the less successful aspects of the movie: How every white character is immensely colorful but every black one is a cipher, that whole thing about Woody Harrelson's big dick (stop!

In Selma, white characters are played by white actors and black characters are played by black actors.

Even Italians are not «white»... When a movie becomes a global project as this movie was you will most likely have non white characters.

One need only turn on the television to watch Machine Gun Preacher for a similar portrayal of a white character who travels to «Africa» to «save the children» against the backdrop of black - on - black slaughter, rape and torture which is never historically contextualised (see The Guardian's Catherine Shoard's critique of the white criminal - turned - saviour character of Sam in Machine Gun Preacher as «half saint, half psychopath»).

The researchers then reinserted the cropped - out characters and prepared selections of silent clips in which the favorability ratings of the featured white characters were higher than those of the featured black characters.

First, the team found clips of mixed - race scenes from 11 popular TV shows with prominent black and white characters.

The researchers say the results don't point to racism in particular shows but to a pattern across many shows that viewers may pick up on without realizing it, leading them to associate positive qualities with white characters.

Early on, a white character carelessly describes it as «a third world country — textiles, shepherds, cool outfits.»

But there are problems in Wakanda, not all stemming from the film's few white characters: CIA man Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) blunders into Wakandan power politics, and white South African career criminal Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis) plots to steal their vibranium.

Hostiles has less success with its broader exploration of the Old West and the United States» genocide against the Native Americans, in no small part because Yellow Hawk and his family aren't afforded the same development as most of the white characters here.

Their presence and attitude serve as the catalyst for the mainly white characters to change their own attitude about the native people of this country.

On top of this, Coogler couldn't help but promote illusions in American imperialism with the inclusion of a «good» white character, the CIA operative Everett Ross (Martin Freeman).

Apart from Klaue, the only other prominent white character is veteran CIA secret agent Everett K Ross, played in typically engaging and bumbling fashion by Martin Freeman.

Coogler flips this by making Martin Freeman the token white character.

Rather than the gleeful gratuitousness that Tarantino employed in Django Unchained, there is reason to this assault on our senses, as McQueen's sequences present a subtle range of emotional responses to such cruelty and injustice, in both black and white characters.

Now that he's made films about all - white characters, now he can make an all - black and Arab story.»

No, the white characters in «Mudbound» are products of their time, and there's an honesty to that which sometimes supersedes choices that might otherwise have been more satisfying or dramatic — much as the casting favors actors whose weathered faces and strained expressions look as if they might have been lifted from Richard Avedon's «In the American West» series.

But the film at times has trouble reconciling its desire to tell a story about the long - lasting effects of Native American displacement with the reality that most of the story revolves around the white characters.

The African American actor who played Dr. Kananga / Mr Big in «Live and Let Die,» believes «James Bond was established by Ian Fleming as a white character,» and should be «played by white actors»

And this brings us to the critical backlash to this film: a feeling in some quarters that for all its powerful and compelling female lead, the movie appears obtuse on race and blackness by making it a subsidiary function of the white characters» moral journey.

Black Panther has exactly two white characters of note, and they are both figures we've seen before in Marvel movies.

Like so many other American, Hollywood movies, it tells a story of black culture through the eyes of white characters, and it celebrates white characters that are brave and wise enough to open up to African - Americans.

The Help, written and directed by Tate Taylor from the novel by Kathryn Stockett, belongs to the Driving Miss Daisy tradition of feel - good fables about black - white relations in America, movies in which institutional racism takes a backseat to the personal enlightenment of one white character.

Though to be fair, Sydney Pollack's «Out of Africa» (left) does all it can to avoid making any statement about the suffering of Africans under colonialism, placing focus instead on its white characters, played by Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, a pair of European settlers in Kenya.

And, in further contemplation, actually comes off as rather offensive when comparing this trifle's rich, white characters of privilege with those played by Daniel Day - Lewis and Pete Posthlethwaite.

Unlike biracial Vin Diesel's The Chronicles of Riddick, which translated racial and political awareness into a quasi-classical drama, Black Panther marginalizes its white characters: «Another broken white boy for us to fix,» a Wakanda scientist rhetorically spears a CIA outsider.

A black - and - white character study from a screenplay by former Almost Live comedian Bob Nelson, Nebraska is arranged around that classic American storytelling form, the car ride.

The best drama win for «Breaking Bad» was its first ever, and Anna Gunn won a best supporting actress award for playing the wife of Bryan Cranston's Walter White character, the chemistry teacher turned drug lord whom the series revolves around.

Kloster employs a unique crafts - styled 2D animation which blends color backgrounds with black and white characters, reminiscent of the show «Angela Anaconda» for those who remember the late - 90s Nickelodeon cartoon.

, from both white characters and Indian.

Much of the action takes place in the fictitious Wakanda and the white characters, including Freeman's obliging Ross, are the secondary characters.

But what is certain about Three Billboards is that if this many people saw Dixon's arc as redemptive — and if we take the most charitable view, that it wasn't intended to trivialize the experiences of abused and tortured black characters in order to humanize a white character — then the problem is in the film itself, which allowed room for a reading that was counter to its intentions.

Once again, white characters are presented as the butts of jokes, from Tish's fanny pack - wearing husband (Gary Owen) to Michael's unexpectedly preppy frat brothers (Adam Brody and David Walton).

As ignorant as it looks now, Black Panther was once considered a gamble for Marvel Studios, which hadn't yet made a movie in the M.C.U. featuring a black lead or even a single scene without white characters.

There's little attempt to minimize the horrors these indigenous peoples are subjected to and Oak, not the white character Joshua, is the movie's actual hero.

And honestly, I think giving established white characters like Spider - man to POC's, isn't really the way to go about it.

One of my favourite scenes — and the one that got the most raucous response at each of my screenings — is when Shuri flippantly denigrates one of the only white characters in Black Panther by calling him «Colonizer.»

This pure and unfiltered «African gaze» is one that Hollywood is not used to; many projects based on the vast continent have focused on problematic storylines, illogically centered around white characters or narratives told from a distant, cold vantage view.

It feels slightly humbug to point out that all native characters are in service to the white characters (just like during our colonial past!).

The racial prejudice that Annie and Sarah Jane encounter throughout the film is confronting, and the amount of screen time dedicated to exploring their problems is interesting — and a deliberate attempt by Sirk to draw attention away from the more insignificant problems of his white characters.

Argo thinks Get Out was a little hard on its white characters — or at least wonders if they were too one - dimensional — but keeps that to itself, and laughs politely when its one half - black friend says «Give me the keys, Rose!»

Most of the white characters treat the indigenous as if they were property or a pest, depending on their specific relationships, but the script, care of writers Steven McGregor (The Warriors) and David Tranter, is not without nuance.

Considering the specific focus on its white characters, and with Keith described later as being treated like a child despite being very much an adult, there's a compelling hint to his societal privilege, the way that American culture can baby grown white men like Mark Zuckerberg or Jared Kushner when they're in trouble.

Alas, the focus of the film, as in The Constant Gardener, is the liberal quilt and romantic troubles of its white characters: In this case, Nicholas learns that his best bud is none too nice but nonetheless decides to sleep with one of the dictator's wives.

Other formerly white characters were cast with black actors, including Idris Elba as Norse god Heimdall in Thor, and Michael B Jordan as the Fantastic Four's Human Torch.

Undeniably fine on its own terms, 2013's gristly black - and - white character study, Nebraska, looked about as artisanal a product as you could still hope to get financed by a major studio.

«Plain and simple, people do not think that you can allow the one good white character to also be evil,» he said.

Kirk: I really liked how in this movie, I didn't notice this until I heard on Still Processing, they pointed out that the two white characters in this movie are the token good guy and the secondary bad guy, which is literally an inversion of how it is in every other movie.

Eventually, visitors will be able to locate the book they want and specify, down to the most microscopic detail, the way it will be presented to them: as white characters on a black background, as a Braille printout, as text spoken and displayed simultaneously, or any of a hundred other permutations.