Sentences with phrase «more character driven»

The action is faster paced, the set pieces are bigger and better, and the story more character driven and developed.

With the introduction of Nathan's brother Sam, Naughty Dog decided to opt for a far more character driven affair than the over-the-top, non-stop action of previous series entries.

With regard to the single player mode of Battlefield 3, Silverman admitted that Battlefield 3 suffered from shortcomings and as a result, the campaign for Battlefield 4 will be more character driven and emotional.

sense as the previous games, nor does it tell a more character driven plot.

Slightly slower and more character driven for Milton, but with big action sequences.

Curiously, Goyer's first time directing a film (which he also adapted from a book by Landon J. Napoleon) goes in the exact opposite direction, ditching action pieces and barebones plotting for a more character driven piece, relying on personalities than on explosions.

While the daughter's unsolved murder is the catalyst, the story is really more character driven.

What would happen if they made a Star Wars film that was more character driven than focusing on battles and lightsabers?

It's far more character driven than action driven.

Catch Me If You Can is an example of a recent movie he has done that is more character driven.

The director is known mainly for his deeper, more character driven stories in Swingers and Go.

This entry is far more character driven, avoiding much of the intricate plotting and hardboiled action that were the main pleasures of its predecessor.

Sydney Pollack's («Three Days of the Condor» / «Out of Africa») well - made but unimportant political thriller (more a character driven than a plot driven story) is set in New York City and frames its story around an assassination plot of an African leader set to speak at the United Nations.

This however, is not quite the hilarious gore fest he'd produced earlier but a more character driven mystery.

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They didn't elaborate on the matter, but according to Variety, it was because MacLaren's «epic origin tale» differed from their hopes for a more classic character - driven drama.

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1,» it is a lot more intimate and character driven.

Same can be said of the bible, which also includes some real historical figures (possibly) and more likely mix in fantasy characters in order to drive the point home, like angels, demons and the like.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

Under the heading of «Continence Protects the Dignity of the Conjugal Act», John Paul II insists: «Continence consists in the capacity to dominate, control and direct drives of a sexual character... The role of conjugal chastity, and still more precisely that of continence, lies not only in protecting the importance and dignity of the conjugal act in relation to its procreative meaning.

More a beautiful character study than a plot - driven novel, Shine On is worth reading simply for hours spent with Colwin's exquisite descriptions of the physical and emotional world.

«I'm proud to endorse John because he has the experience, character and sound judgement to make tough decisions that break the chains of economic oppression that have prevented the kind of growth and opportunity that will bring more citizens into New York, rather than drive them out of our state.»

«I'm fascinated by the national psyche, by what drives people, it's much more interesting to write a script that has something to say, not just character stories.

Warm, intelligent and highly articulate, there's far more to Casey than the punchline - driven character she played for so long — although she does like to pepper her speech with what your granny might call «broad language», usually for comic effect.

«It's like driving a car with 50 steering wheels,» says Michiel van de Panne, a computer animation researcher at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who is one of many trying a new approach to giving robots and video game characters more realistic gaits.

Instead of being centrally driven, the creative design element can be more crowdsourced; products may take on an evolutionary character as more people get involved in visualizing and producing them.

After the bug fixes with a patch this sequel exceeds the original in every aspect.Better graphics, gamplay and story along with 2 completely different playable protaganists give Dishonered 2 more replay value then almost every triple A title this year.And this time around I did nt feel pushed to play the game in any specific way.I felt that playing stealthily was alot more rewarding then the first entry but i never felt that i was playing wrong or was being punished when i played a full on assault playthrough.Also there are several ending for every playstyle for both characters which really drive you toward a second, third or even forth playthrough and in all the chaos or silence of each level, even on my forth run, I reimagined every situation and experienced different outcomes every single time.Dishonored 2 also contains some of the best level design I have ever seen with the likes of the amazing and masterfully thought out Clockwork Mansion level being among my all time favorites.Dishonored 2 truly is a masterpiece in almost every ascpect!!!

It is just as passionate and equally as fun as those other films, but is slower - paced and more character - driven.

That said, it's largely action and character driven, though with so many characters in play there's no way to avoid the necessity of some getting far more attention than others.

A prolific filmmaker who is more concerned with the drive of her characters rather than the plot that weaves them together, she has been dubbed by one critic as one of the only current French directors who «has been able to reconcile the lyricism of French cinema with the impulse to capture the often harsh face of contemporary France.

Writer - director Joshua Marston gives Shannon a chance to shine as a character more pedestrian than the ones he usually plays, though the story is a little too thesis driven to build any dramatic momentum.

«Lincoln» may be too procedural, too stagey, and too character - driven for those looking for easy entertainment or the more typical Spielberg experience.

Ryan Gosling doesn't really stand out like he has in previous performances in a personal favorite of mine, Drive, and one of the most overlooked films of 2011, The Ides Of March, but that's more fault to the thin character he's been given to play.

The period of the creation of the atomic bomb seems like one ripe for dramatic storytelling, but a bit too much of this show comes off as overly scripted, more manipulative than character - driven.

The series, controlled tightly by the Broccoli family, had typically eschewed A-list helmers in favor of solid workmen, but Sam Mendes, and writer John Logan, gave «Skyfall» a distinct persona that built on the more grounded, character - driven approach of Daniel Craig's previous entries, brought Judi Dench's M front - and - center, and gave him a worthy adversary for the first time in years thanks to Javier Bardem's Silva.

For most of its 132 - minute running time, Bone Tomahawk is a talky, character - driven Western with more in common with John Ford than Enzo Castellari.

While The Discovery plays in many ways like a more effective version of the concept - choked Brit Marling / Zal Batmanglij movies, the cult scenes feel underdeveloped next to their film The Sound of My Voice, an intriguing but ragged thread left dangling as The Discovery turns towards more concrete, backstory - driven explanations for its characters» obsessions.

After the mandatory splatter scenes, Ruben Fleischer's film becomes more character - driven and enjoyable.

Drive comes off as more of a character study with extreme amounts of action, all pulled off with furious intensity.

There are more powerful character - driven moments throughout the film.

Story Dominates Over Spectacle Take a step back to consider the nominees as a whole, and you'll see that this year's selections have placed a greater emphasis on character - driven stories with big ideas over grander, more technically accomplished directorial visions.

Even in his more plot — and character — driven films like The Rules of the Game (1939) he utilized a detached voyeurism keyed into the moments between moments, of people dressing and driving, of walking through rooms and down hallways to the sound of silence or meaningless chatter.

The funny thing, too, is that, if you ask me who I identify with more in terms of their ambition and their drive, I'm more like Adam Driver's character in that I'm much more ambitious, or at least more comfortable with my own ambition than Ben's character, who's been stuck on the same movie for ten years.

While the malleable allegory of the film's events — a woman and her writer husband live in an Edenic country house that spirals into infernal chaos — has fueled both love - or - hate reactions and directorial marketing, I was riveted by the heedless spectacle and totally enveloping film technique, all anchored in Jennifer Lawrence's sometimes baffling commitment to a character driven to distraction by her husband (Javier Bardem), his mystery guests (deliciously entitled Michelle Pfeiffer, Ed Harris), and much, much more.

There are scenes driven on quiet, subtle changes in a single character's expression or the way one characters ends a discussion before it begins, and they have more resonance silent than had they contained dialogue.

This movie is very character driven, with more than half the films run time taking place with our main characters just sitting in detention and talking with each other.

It seems fairly obvious what roles each thesp will take with the promise of a character driven period drama featuring the two highly exciting considering what Crowley was able to do with «Boy A.» We're not familiar with the source material, but it sounds more melodrama than her usual thriller (the author, of course, was the writer of «Strangers On A Train» and «The Talented Mr. Ripley «-RRB-.

I was coming off a project at the time, and I really wanted to do an independent film that was more of an intimate, character - driven piece.

A deeper, more character and emotion driven take would suit Branagh and his Shakespearean background.

Payne likes to create character driven stories where the plot is interesting but moreso the characters elevate the plot into something far more fascinating.