Sentences with phrase «much younger protagonist»

Though a critic quoted on the cover references Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty, this film focuses on a much younger protagonist, so there's nothing here that's more than vaguely racy.

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We may be processing them in much the same fragmented but intensified fashion as our young protagonist, Alias (electric newcomer Hamisi Bazili), as he watches the nighttime murder of his father (Tito D. Ntanga) at the machete - wielding hands of local muti harvesters.

For much of this movie, the three young protagonists of the saga — Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson)-- exist in suspended animation, camped out on a series of picturesque British heaths as they flee the Death Eaters, minions of Harry's archrival Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes).

While «The Book of Life» focused on a love triangle, «Coco» protagonist is much younger and continues Pixar's tradition of eschewing love interests with one or two exceptions.

The young actors who play Paxton's sons in the flashback portions of the film deserve much of the praise, with Matt O'Leary, in particular, being a sympathetic protagonist as young Fenton, a young boy torn between his love for his father and the moral duty to stop his murderous ambitions.

For the most part, Baubach has aged alongside his protagonists, making While We're Young his clearest take on the mid-life crisis age of Generation X. Much of the conflict of the film comes from the sense that they are somewhat of a lost generation, sandwiched between the can - do hard working Baby Boomer attitude of those who came before (Grodin's character) and the less traditionalist, blunter millennial hipster culture (Driver's character).

This version changes Bradbury's older, unhappily married protagonist into a much younger and virile Michael B. Jordan and adds language far saltier than the «damns» and «hells» that once got the novel in trouble with censors.

Watching it, I thought about the fact that we don't learn too much about the backstories of the characters, especially protagonist Rebecca (Teresa Palmer), a wayward daughter who tries to protect her younger brother, Martin (Gabriel Bateman), from her psychologically unbalanced mother, Sophie (Maria Bello).

Brilliantly observant, Ghost World captures the unthinking cruelty and insecurity of teenagers, but what is most impressive (and distinguishes it from the mocking approach of much of Clowes» work) is its sympathy, evident not only in deep understanding of the young protagonists but also in affinity for the supporting characters — even the parents, when they are glimpsed, are sympathetically depicted.

It'll follow a much younger Bayek, the protagonist who had to flee his tranquil home in Siwa in order to uncover truths, and pursue his true purpose as protector of the land of the Nile.

As the title may suggest, Yakuza 0 («Zero») is a prequel to the entire Yakuza series to date, placing itself in the 80s and following a much younger version of series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu as a newly recruited member of the Yakuza as he struggles to make a name for himself.

You're never given clear direction in Rime or any real explanation as to the boy's past or purpose; as you slowly start to explore the island you'll stumble across artefacts that shed some light on the backstory, showing a grieving monarch with an inquisitive and familiar young charge, but an air of ambiguity consistently colours the game and you'll find yourself spending the first few hours puzzling over things like just how exactly is that fox spirit connected to everything, who is the mysterious figure in the red cape who watches silently from afar and is the source of our protagonist's vivid red cape, what tragic fate befell the bipedal robots who lay littered about the place and much more.

Much of the pre-teen and adolescent fiction and non-fiction literature discussing divorce has female protagonists or themes aimed at young women.