Sentences with phrase «more dramatic character»

Not exact matches

For the careful reader, foreshadowing creates a particularly effective form of engagement, ultimately moving into the territory of dramatic irony, where the reader knows more than the characters in the story.

The screenplay by David Kajganich (The Invasion), based on Finkel's memoir, gradually develops tension while keeping its focus on the two main characters, even if it's embellished to fit a more conventional dramatic framework.

Mudbound requires a taste for leisurely storytelling generally more focused on building careful nuances and layered characters than on big dramatic cymbal clashes.

While it does feel like a step backwards in some cases, it does allows for a far more dramatic experience and believable storyline where you can actually feel the intent of the characters and get invested in them and their lives.

We get to see cheesy, poorly produced scenes of lame flirting between Troy and Riker inbetween plays of the Holodeck program, one of the main Enterprise characters dies in a really forced, badly - directed and pointless way (the character deserved a much more meaningful and dramatic death than that at least).

The cast also contributed tremendously well with Carell, in my opinion, being the standout and once again showing us that he can definitely do more dramatic roles like this, Bale as always was freakin fabulous with his complex character, Gosling was pretty much the narrator but he was once again really funny and Pitt is the moral center, he didn't had more screentime but he delivers.

As the story builds, these characters become richer and more complicated — and the stakes become more deadly — resulting in a movie with a delayed but no less potent dramatic punch.

The original film turned suspense levels to 11 by playing with dramatic irony, showing the audience the location of the three strangers far more often than the characters are aware of it.

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.

Of course, this is the type of fact - based film that probably would have benefited from taking more dramatic license with the material, because some of the sensational events that occur (including one character's supposed death) are presented so matter - of - factly that it sucks the fun out of the movie.

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.

Moments of laugh - out - loud humor are broken up with truly dramatic, affecting moments that make the character ultimately more complex than he initially seems.

When the Game Stands Tall is a family friendly, and, more notably, Christian - family friendly, drama inspired by true events («inspired» means liberal amounts of dramatic license, fictional characters, etc.).

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.

While I do think, from a story standpoint, it's a shame that Garrigan wasn't limited to being a mere witness to the events of the Amin era, as he was portrayed more in the book, instead of a constant catalyst for Amin's rage, considering he is a fictional character, we'll just chalk up his constant missteps as dramatic license taken by the screenwriters in drawing out Amin to commit some of the most heinous acts of torture shown in film this side of a Mel Gibson directorial effort.

One could read that the lack of passion he displays comes from the fact that his character is still in mourning, but more likely, Holloway is drawing his anguish from the realization that his career is reduced to starring in vehicles that don't even offer a tenth of the dramatic range as a recurring role on a TV show.

What initially feels like a definitive portrait of those character building moments which occur before the sun rises soon becomes something more high risk and dramatic, but we won't tell you exactly what goes down.

Either the screenwriters don't know what abandonment issues are, or they randomly swapped in a different backstory for this character to make it more «dramatic.»

Sure enough, as the story unfolds in more conventional dramatic style, characters break off from what they're doing either to cast doubt on the veracity of what we're seeing or set us off in a whole new direction.

But dramatic character studies, he says «are much more contained.

The action sequences are well - staged and some of the more dramatic and symbolic moments feature characters surrounded by bright and beautiful visuals.

As well as Boogie Nights works as a drama — and it certainly gets dark and dramatic as things go bad for its characters — it's even more successful as a comedy.

Bryan Singer's X-Men franchise has done slightly better, giving characters like Storm (Halle Berry), Dr. Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) rounded stories and proper dramatic arcs, so that they seemed more like women, and less like blow - up dolls.

The premise reads as a common psycho stalker thriller, but the film is actually more of a dramatic study of Sy's character.

In an effort to remain succinct, there is also a good hearted American president, a brilliant scientist, the slimy advisor, a few potential love interests and a couple of other random civilians given to us for more dramatic impact — which lands mostly on your ass as you sit for an extra 45 minutes in the theater due to these characters.

As Romina, Mendes certainly can't escape her own attractiveness but her emotional fragility more than overwhelms and makes her character rich and dramatic, aiding the story of both Luke and Avery.

Chappaquiddick is, at its best, a reminder of what a unique, and largely unexplored, character Ted Kennedy can be on film; to compare him to our scandal - riddled president, or any other politician, does a disservice to what are hopefully many more dramatic stories about Kennedy to come.

Mind you, it's also a film I think is great too, but it also uses violence as a dramatic crescendo whereas «Bluebird» is much more honest and less melodramatic about the organic and natural direction where the narrative needs to take these characters.

The searching, restless quality of his films and his characters, the desperate desire for love, is a core human quality, which Wong's characters simply express in more eccentric and dramatic ways than most, and Wong matches their inventive romantic gyrations with an equally exaggerated, expressive style.

But this dramatic thriller, which recounts the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, is a startlingly visceral experience, allowing for a lot more humanity in the characters.

For all the levels on which Cobra Kai is derivative and tonally inconsistent, it absolutely delivers a more complicated set of characters and dramatic stakes than Karate Kid.

Included in the deleted scenes section is a much longer version of the film's climactic swim meet, which does a better job of building the dramatic tension and offers a far more satisfying and affecting resolution to the team and individual characters» journeys than the rushed, montage - heavy version that hit the big screen.

I sat down with Craig to discuss his family background in music, taking on more dramatic roles, his character in Mr. Robot, his relationship with the James Franco gang and the lasting legacy of The Office.

From the get, director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) abandons all pretense of heightening his horror film with dramatic subtexts and characters with more than one dimension — this is midnight movie fare through and through.

Bottom line: Jude Law gives a bravura performance as the title character, but you can't escape the feeling that this 2013 crime comedy - drama could have been either funnier or more dramatic.

Watching Birbiglia drive a wedge between this collection of funny people who feed off each other's energy for a living makes for powerful, character - driven work and the cast, including a standout Keegan - Michael Key and Gillian Jacobs, is more than game bringing dramatic gravitas, in addition to comedic jabs aplenty, to the table.

Davis and Sachar are more concerned with how their movie turned out, and they discuss how things came together, remarking on what's on - screen with dramatic or technical background to scenes and characters.

Let's hope the next time Silverman lands a meaty dramatic role — and she surely will — it will be attached to a stronger movie with a screenplay that adds more context and gives more texture to its characters.

A screenplay that describes the numerous changes of mind with more conviction would better inform us of the characters» suffering that renders the dramatic ending unavoidable.

As much as Robespierre infuses the dramatic material with her own comic sensibility — proudly vulgar at times, but always keyed to these particular characters — Landline doesn't always escape a sense that, for all the occasional well - observed details, we've explored this kind of familial territory many times before, and more insightfully.

It's a bit disappointing when his climax tries to rip out the hearts of its characters, especially when dramatic restraint proves to be much more disturbing.

In truth, as a comedy, it's standard sitcom, and the broadly stereotypical characters are far beneath the talent of the stars, but the story does gain a bit of traction in the more dramatic moments in which these men, nearing the end of their lives, realize that they're no longer the spring chickens they used to be.

Duplass is an able comic performer, though he's much more limited when called upon to convey the dramatic turmoil suffered by his character.

Gringo has more dramatic heft than you'd expect — again, not a stoner comedy — and Oyelowo balances the grimmer parts of Harold's experience with a natural buoyancy that makes him a tremendously likeable character even as he is making increasingly bad decisions.

3 Days To Kill Drinking Game: 1) Drink whenever you hear a «boom» in the soundtrack to punctuate dramatic moments 2) Drink any time someone says a character's nickname («The Wolf,» «The Albino,» «The Accountant,» etc.) 3) Drink every time Kevin Costner's daughter's ringtone is heard Finish Your Drink When: You hear one of the more awkward title drops in a film to date.

But the hubris of believing that going bigger, more dramatic, more characters, more crossover power?

Unfortunately, all four lost out to more serious characters and traditionally dramatic actors.

It plays like a modern TV mini-series, more concerned with dramatic complications and character conflict than with action - film cliffhangers.

«At the same time, there is a strong evidence - base indicating that the use of dramatic enquiry — a drama - based practice where the teacher and pupils work in roles within a fiction to explore a story in a particular setting with developing characters — as well as the creation of a «community of writers», where the teacher writes alongside the children as a role model, can make the process of writing more meaningful for children.»

San Francisco — Secondary - school principals, challenged by dramatic changes in the character of their student populations, appear to be increasingly concerned about improving their schools and dealing more effectively with student «learning styles.»