Sentences with phrase «more layered characters»

However, I really enjoy the challenge of developing a longer story through a more complex plot and more layered characters.

Not exact matches

On further inspection, however, it's the more layered side of the character that the actor fails to capture.

Shareholders allow such characters to exist because they tend to generate extreme performance with their deviant strategies that would not survive the layers of management in more democratic companies, according to Jianyun Tang, a professor at Memorial University.

The first couple of books start out as typical «solve - this - murder» sort of books (without being gory or cruel or gratuitous, it's more about the story and the characters)-- very satisfying Saturday night read — but as the books go forward, the layers and complex storytelling becomes even more clear and right around book three or four you begin to realise that everything is connected and everything means something and something major is unfolding and OMG MUST KEEP READING.

However, the latest wave of this trend, including but not limited to, Snow White and the Huntsman, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and Jack the Giant Slayer have each demonstrated, in their own way, a fundamental flaw with this premise; they lazily force these classic characters to «grow up» by ratcheting up the angst and violence instead of revisiting the more complex layers that exist within the original stories themselves.

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

On the whole, I was hardly interested in this snoozefest of a mystery «thriller», but there are moments in which I found myself genuinely invested in this layered and meditative drama, and for those moments, I give some credit to Refn for actually waking up, and even more credit to the real force behind this misguided character study.

Sure, the character's inexplicable inflections and odd behavior are milked for comedy (especially early on), but as the story progresses, Franco reveals more layers, flaws, and vulnerabilities, turning a performance that could have just come across as an outlandish caricature into something real.

Naturally, there are back stories to be covered, and layers of history that inform the proceedings or just make for a more richly textured character.

Zeta - Jones looks lovely, but the leather outfit she wears has more layers than her character.

An old school comic facing the truth that «being funny isn't enough anymore» could have been fertile ground for a more layered, meaningful character.

Similarly, the textures are flatter and character models a little more angular (and when they turn to ice it's just blue rather than an actual ice layer), but Climax has still done an admirable job with this port.

His shared history and complicated relationship with U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) eventually became the lifeblood of the Kentucky - set western, and the many reinventions of Boyd, each one revealing a new layer of the man who would do anything to escape the viselike grip of Harlan, made him a fan - favorite character and Goggins more than just an actor whose face was recognizable but name wasn't.

The characters act in the way you expect, and despite Cianfrance's attempts to layer the film with long, sweeping moments and beautiful cinematography, it doesn't do much to elevate the story into something more unique, or at least more riveting.

This second act exposes even more layers as new characters (including Joy's separated parents, played by Joan Allen and William H. Macy) are forced to deal head - on with the events surrounding this horrific situation.

This is partly because it's a relief to see her play a character who is like Anastasia, but far more willing to explore the world beyond a billionaire's glassed - in castle; it's like another layer of fan - fiction, written by someone who cares if Anastasia has agency.

Gandolfini shines as the wannabe tough guy who thinks he deserves more respect than he gets, but this is Hardy's movie through and through, delivering an unusually subdued turn that becomes more impressive by the minute as he carefully peels back each layer of his character.

In fact, its character and rich emotional layers are what elevates the film from a precisely - told absorbing thriller into something much more potent and powerful: a breathtakingly harrowing tale of survival and grueling desperation that redefines the term «nailbiter.»

«I wanted to bring balance to these two families and I saw it more as a dark mirror of each other,» she says, crediting her actors for embodying these hardened and layered characters so deftly during a 26 - day shoot on location in Louisiana.

The relationship between her character and Bob becomes more complicated as the story unfolds and she gets to show more than a few layers to her character along the way.

He gave a terrific, Golden Globe - nominated performance, funny, layered and affecting, as a character who couldn't be more different to Charles in Four Weddings.

McAvoy and Strong are the ones who truly impress though, and where the script may lack the time to bring more layers to their characters they are able to make up for it with their emotional understanding of these men and their internal struggles.

The depth of her research, the layers of her characters and the way she wove the most modern of themes into a deep period setting to produce a page - turner of a thriller made my work an absolute pleasure and meant I was able to follow the contours of her story much more faithfully than is sometimes the case.

Johnson gets far closer than Kitsch to delivering a character with some layers, making Ben more than a character, rather a real person with wheels spinning inside his head.

We have a killer cast and the characters have gotten even more layered and magnetic and I can't wait to take this story even further.

Given his role in Stranger Things, its nice to see Wolfhard stretch his comedic muscles, yet still show Richie as a layered character with more to him that just jokes.

Underneath the layers of melancholy and pain, there are fresh characters here that I only wished could've shined through more prominently.

Some may object to the sexual material, which is nearly entirely verbal and adds a layer to Ferrell's character that is more or less essential.

Fully Fleshed Out Combat — Unique combat features such as the rewind function, elemental affinities / weaknesses, unique character skills, and more add a layer of depth to fights.

Having since known all the songs used in the film, I marvel at the little layers that reveal themselves upon rewatching and realise that songs take up a big part of the story and serve as the voice of the characters in conveying what they want / feel much more evocatively and persuasively than non-sung words.

Thanks to Captain Marvel, fans will be able to see a new side of Agent Coulson, one that may add even more layers to the character.

There's also the possibility that the movie takes more than one viewing to truly appreciate the subtly and layers of the characters, but for the most part Whiskey Tango Foxtrot can never find its footing and start being entertaining.

Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, and Stanley Tucci are all fantastic character actors who start to peel off the layers of these larger than life characters to make them more than simple cartoonish figures of the Capitol.

At first, the central question is the theoretical one put forth by Nathan, but just as the movie starts to peel back the layers of its thoughts on human consciousness, the questions becomes a far more mundane: Which of these three characters can we trust, and if we can't trust them, why can't we?

The relationships between the girl and other characters, like her father, could have been a little more developed to for that needed layer, especially towards the end of the film.

While the 2.3 - litre Ecoboost is a good engine and compliments the Mustang well, the V8 is just that little bit more suited to the Mustang driving experience, adding that extra layer of character that might make the financial outlay worth it.

And while it is the prominent element in the XTS's technological character, CUE is part of a more comprehensive and layered approach to the car's design, capabilities and performance.

I grew up reading the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen, fascinated by the ways in which gender, culture, and class limited the characters» movement within society, and Park added several more layers of complexity to Jane Re's story by introducing race, cultural identity and intergenerational conflict to the mix.

There are so many layers to the plot within this book as all of the characters find themselves more than just against the ropes and in situations that will endanger the West Family and themselves.

The result is a dynamic, layered effect that allows the reader to sink progressively deeper into the Lamb family, as opposed to the traditional approach of going forward through a linear plot progression... While stylistic parallels to Wordsworth's daffodils are evident throughout the novel, Greene's characters function with independence and resolution that bring the American transcendentalists - Emerson, Thoreau - more readily to mind.

-- Kirkus «All the magical light that brightens Mayes's Tuscany has the effect of canceling the shadows that might fall on her characters in a more realistic or layered story.

Complexly layered characters like Nate are few and far between — he elicits sympathy one moment, supreme frustration the next, which just makes him all the more believable.

A new feature called X-Ray gives you access to an added layer of information about the book youre readingincluding information about the characters, background information from sites like Wikipedia, and more.

In the new interview Kojima has put his earlier grievances into context, «The media in which we have worked is the Blu - ray dual - layer» offering 50 GB worth of space, this has been more than enough for other games to date, «I must say that if it had benefited from more time and space, [we] would have included a greater amount of content, such as more levels and characters.»

There's also a very loose card collecting aspect to the game as well, in which you earn new character and assist cards just from winning more battles; and for an added layer of depth, each individual character can be leveled up the more you use them in combat, which really comes in handy on some of those later battles.

Fully Fleshed Out Combat — Unique combat features such as the rewind function, elemental affinities / weaknesses, unique character skills, and more add a layer of depth to fights.

On the other, as long as they keep Link silent and found good enough actors to speak for the supporting cast, it would make the world a little more engadging and believable, as voices would add a whole other layer to characters personality.

Proper timing and crossfire tactics will get you through each stage, just like Bomber - Man, but where Brawl tries to set itself apart is in the creepy characters, each having their own set of abilities to add yet more layers of complexity.

When you are moving your characters around the grid, the song is toned down but as soon as your unit is in combat, the music adds more layers of sound to expand and capture the intensity of the battle.

As gaming continues to evolve we find ourselves increasingly presented with interactive entertainment hoping to create an emotional impact through richly layered story and fully realised characters, but Flower evokes emotions far more provocatively through its unique simplicity.