Sentences with phrase «noble character does»

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Properly done, the film could be a great moral lesson, but, as written, it is yet another politically correct tale that makes the hero something less than noble, and the villain becomes the sympathetic character.

As far as the animals go, I had the biggest concern for the noble mouse Reepicheep, I didn't care for his character in the book, but he's great in the film.

Connor Paolo does a fine job as our noble, if kinda one - note, hero, and character actor Nick Damici (Late Phases) displays all sorts of bad - ass anti-heroic coolness.

This film is not the trite, easy character study of a righteous liberal crusader or noble do - gooder, quite the opposite in fact.

Dragonfly's characters are stock, its scares are telegraphed (the script by committee mistakes «eye - rolling» for «tight»), and before it's done, it dips into a shocking Mead - era noble savage syndrome complicated by more conventional exploitations of race and illness.

Nonetheless, Alice did commit some major missteps — such as a noble, but misguided, attempt to flesh out the source material mythology and over-abundance of quirky CGI characters and effects — and, unfortunately, Oz seems to be repeating many of them.

The feature debut of writer - director Andrew Renzi, the film introduces a type of character we don't normally see on film: one who is both noble and, at times, as wildly inappropriate as a character in an Adam Sandler movie.

Nostalgic references to classic Hollywood — like that «Presented in CinemaScope» title card in the beginning and the two main characters» first date at a screening of Rebel Without a Cause — don't excite me as much as they used to, and nor does a movie that, to my mind, simple - mindedly posits the John Legend character as a kind of villain for daring to think progressively about jazz — an entirely noble and necessary endeavor, whatever you may think of the music his character actually creates — rather than remain rooted to the past like Ryan Gosling's character does.

Though the way different characters interpret what would seem to be virtues, twisting them into something less than noble, but still rhetorically valid, has its own fascination.make a sacrifice that may do no good or might save them all.

B&N — 5,000 character limit through Nook Press (their online self - publishing platform), possibly less through their physical publication arm, though I never did hear back from multiple inquiries to Barnes & Noble.

John Noble does fantastic voice work and one of his monologues about the nature of fear actually impressed me quite a lot but the character's appearance in the game amounts to little more.