Sentences with phrase «mythic character»

This time around, Rodriguez has given us a stylish, posturing tableau Western, based on his own mythic character, filled with full - blooded action set pieces, and set against the continuation of Mexico's political strife.

The «upper world» included celestial bodies and weather forces personified in mythic characters that exerted influences on the human situation.

Mark Winegardner brings an original voice and vision to Mario Puzo's mythic characters while creating several equally unforgettable characters of his own.

Not exact matches

The funny thing is, though, that this other group knows all of the stories your family likes to tell about the deceased, and the stories they add to the mix sound more like mythic embellishments of his character than outright lies.

And character, Hopewell provocatively proposed, is best grasped if studied in counterpoint with some mythic tale that «matches» a congregation's style, tone, and moral posture, the features of its character.

In some sense there is no mythic comic strip character who has replaced her for girls and young teens today.

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Captured indelibly by cinematographers Nestor Almendros and Haskell Wexler, Malick's film has a visual syntax so eloquent and graceful — its fields of gold cause its quiet characters to stand out like mythic figures — it would play powerfully as a silent film.

The three central characters are all blandly pretty faces who give continuously stilted line readings and never convincingly embody their respective mythic archetypes, so it's up to the old pros to pick up the slack.

«What Hugh said to you is the attitude we all have — myself, Lauren Shuler Donner, the studio, [director] James Mangold, Hutch Parker — all of us, feel like this is six or seven or eight (depending on how you count) movies in the making, and there are few characters in the history of cinema who have cast as big a shadow as Wolverine, so to tell the final chapter of that story, it has to be the best, and it has to have a mythic quality to it.

Day - Lewis» folksy vocal choices — the relaxed pace, the self - deprecating tone — make the character of Lincoln seem more human and approachable, even as his mythic figure and ability to hold a room showcase what made him a legend in his time.

Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton, 1996) I once read that in Greek mythic tragedy, once you understand the setup and the characters, everything that will happen in the drama is already determined.

These sequels trade directly on the emotional legacy of the originals (The Last Jedi makes some leaps into sentimental hyperspace, particularly in the way that it handles Fisher on - screen), and the more of the aged Luke and Leia we see, the more we chip away at the mythic power of characters as Lucas left them: Young, strong, immortal.

His borderline - mythic male loners — often framed against blank expanses of sea or sky — collide against a dense landscape of supporting characters, relationships, technologies, and information.

His firefighter character accrues the weight of a mythic, Shane - like hero.

Jim Jarmusch's seventh narrative feature, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, which I've seen three times, may be a failure, if only because most of its characters are never developed far enough beyond their mythic profiles to live independently of them.

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

Buscemi's sourpuss «full - on human rat mode,» as Variety put it recently, ratchets down mythic - sized characters to everyday guys working their humdrum psychopathic cons in plain sight.

I can't think of a better property that gives the opportunity to create interesting characters, mythic themes and action set pieces.»

Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape - shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh - and - blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles.

What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact - both tragic and redemptive - will transcend the lives and imaginations of its characters and its readers.

In this war of information, the lives of a variety of characters become entangled: Kandinsky, the mythic leader of a group of hackers fighting the government and transnational companies; Albert, the founder of Black Chamber, a state security firm charged with deciphering the secret codes used in the information war; and Miguel Sáenz, Black Chamber's most famous codebreaker, who begins to suspect that his work is not as innocent as he once supposed.

Running parallel to Jackie's story in the campaign, Vendettas adds four additional characters with unique abilities to the mix and tasks you with battling the mythic Brotherhood cult who want nothing more than to rip the Darkness from Jackie, regardless of the outcome.

[58] The extreme simplification of characters to mythic types, choral effects, declamatory dialogue and heightened intensity would become characteristic of later Expressionist plays.

Drawing from a long tradition of Abstract Expressionism, Schutz creates an imaginative and mythic universe full of grotesque creatures and fantastical characters.

Titles, too, combine the mythic proportions of postwar art with high - tech convention, often with characters from Greek myth in full caps joined by punctuation.