Sentences with phrase «need sympathetic characters»

Even films about the supernatural need sympathetic characters.

Not exact matches

It feels like Affleck is bending the morality of the picture to his needs and to paint Joe in a sympathetic light rather than embrace the darkness of the character's deeds.

As director (Sleeping Dogs Lie, God Bless America), Goldthwait is a stealthy genius at comically punching through the veneer of civility that allows society to operate, and World's Greatest Dad lands blows at will, while remaining wryly sympathetic to its characters» desperate need for their delusions.

The one standout is Holt McCallany, who provides complex dimensions to his stock character of a sympathetic detective who finally gives a desperate Leah the advice she needs to turn the tables on her tormentor.

The sympathetic side is in treating its characters as people who want to go back to their ordinary lives, realize that they need help, and want to protect the people they love from the encroaching reality that an ordinary life seems impossible, because help seems unlikely to ever come to them.

Films and characters don't need to be uniformly pretty, likeable or sympathetic.

This talk about whether characters need to be «sympathetic» comes up in writing classes all the time.

Journalists clearly are not doing their jobs when it comes to checking the basic veracity of the accusation, but now a bigger question needs to be asked: How worried were the «IPCC affiliated or sympathetic scientists» about the soundness of their science assessments, if some in their midst felt a need to use baseless character assassination in order to persuade their fellow scientists to ignore material from scientist critics?