Sentences with phrase «of audience sympathy»

The stateside killer is largely an antihero carrying some vestige of audience sympathy, not a bane to be reviled and expunged.

Rupert Wyatt's graceful and complex Rise of the Planet of the Apes was hobbled, but not ruined, by a chowder - headed misalignment of audience sympathies.

Not exact matches

If a prosecutor wants to convict a man of assault, he is (without a doubt) going to paint a picture for the audience of the suffering of the defendant, and will likely use expressive language to evoke a feeling of sympathy from the jury, who (as they listen) visualize the potential suffering of the man / woman in front of them.

He repeatedly invertedthe audience's perspective at one point reflecting the disdain of the establishment, and at others invoking sympathy with the rebels.

The Bishop made a vigorous, polished but superficial speech attacking Darwin's theory and concluded by trying to win the sympathy of the audience with an appeal to Victorian sentimentality concerning women.

The sneering reply that Vince's contribution to the debate was simply «spreading alarm without substance» tells the audience outside Westminster why a Prime Minister, with an attitude like this to critics, ends up with so few friends in the House and, now that his pack of cards has come tumbling down around the voters» ears, even less sympathy outside.

[2] Instead, he developed an account of rhetoric that focused on the ability of transmitting one's ideas and sentiments to the audience through sympathy.

The film bustles along through a series of reveals — a storytelling technique that can lose an audience's sympathy or suspension of disbelief pretty fast, but which works flawlessly here because the filmmakers and the performers know exactly who their characters are and what kind of world they live in.

Touching audience's sympathies and drawing them into her personal destruction, the talented actress lent the film a performance worthy of praise and recognition.

There's a little bit of farcical spoof humor in place as well, with Django's strut now accompanied by contemporary soundtrack rhymes from Rick Ross, with the irreverent sass - talk of Samuel L. Jackson's postmodern Sambo as Candie's reliable assistant Stephen, clouding the audience's sympathies.

The screenplay tends to constrain rather than liberate Hitchcock's thematic thrust, but there is much of technical value in his geometric survey of the scene and the elaborate strategies employed to transfer audience sympathy among the main characters.

Where those previous films felt compelled to lunge for edginess (read: sneering raunch) as chaos dutifully descended on characters they didn't like very much — and weren't particularly interested in getting audiences to like, either — Game Night takes care to locate our sympathies with Bateman, and McAdams, and its cast of charming ringers.

But instead of playing that situation for sympathy, Haigh takes the Bressonian high road, adopting an austere, arm's - length style that keeps the audience at an uncomfortable distance from the character.

That «Insurgent» and its predecessor prove to be at least halfway decent diversions is primarily thanks to leading lady Woodley's ability to fully commit to her character's internal journey as she eventually evolves into a self - sacrificing savior figure after being riddled with guilt and grief while summoning the sympathies of the audience.

Still, the sympathy and intensity of Ejogo's gaze is almost enough to move the audience toward Maya's point of view.

Mickey and Mallory Knox were a fictional hypothetical, for they asked audiences if, in an age where O.J. Simpson was front - page news for a year for just two killings, could a pair of young murderers win over the hearts (if not the sympathies) of a nation with dozens?

About half way into John Hillcoat's impressively staged heist thriller Triple 9, it becomes apparent the audience won't be allowed to develop any sort of sympathy for any of its various characters, a pity considering the potentially rich subtext.

The gamesmanship continues in Abel's modest apartment, where the close attention paid to his earlier activities lends his attempts to hide that coded message an instinctive audience sympathy, even though he's spying on the good old U.S.A.. By observing a spy at the ground level (the camera swoops low around Abel's pursuers» feet, as if it's combing the apartment itself), Spielberg establishes the humanity so crucial to the rest of the film.

Playing a blind girl named Ivy, Howard is required to run the gamut of emotions - while also engendering sympathy from the audience (she eventually becomes the hero of the piece).

And not merely because it cloyingly plays to the audience's presumed sympathies for a set of plastic - molded action figures whose fates have, until next year's culminating instalment, been scattered to the wind.

While the story builds sympathy for their fears, it never becomes too scary for even the youngest of audiences.

Maclean makes Fuckhead a picaresque figure for the doped - up, dropped - out»70s, a character who retains audience sympathies despite a series of disturbing and destructive scenarios.

In the span of five minutes, Loki runs the full spectrum of feelings audiences have had towards the half - bred trickster: betrayal, anger, sympathy, shock, sorrow.

It's an entire cultural epoch ahead of its time — the cynicism of Hud's «rightness» held in the trembling hands of creepy Cal, who, though he elicits the audience's sympathy, is as destructive a figure to our romantic image of the hero as Paul Newman's solipsistic cowboy.

Moore wants to do everything he can to steer the sympathies of the audience toward Hillary.

But that doesn't stop director Dylan («How High») and writer Adam Herz (the creator of these «Pie» movies) from attempting to garner actual audience sympathy for him when he realizes he may have ruined his friends» wedding, thereby blowing his chance to bed Michelle's little sister Candice (January Jones).

Reggie is initially the more reasonable man, whose gentlemanly romancing of the sweet, jittery Frances (Emily Browning) will initially make him a likeable character for some viewers, though Helgeland slowly and deftly shifts audience sympathies for each twin.

In fact, most scenes tended to go completely against the grain, where one scene played for silly comedy while the next ended up being dark, brooding and excessively violent in a way that loses the audience sympathy and ability to identify with any of the characters as human beings.

Like so many of Blanchett's performances, Cate plays Jasmine exposed with no plan to evoke audience sympathy, but so naked (figuratively) is Jasmine by the end that you can't help but feel for her.

This is mostly the result of his ability to retain the sympathy of an audience he easily could lose, and allow his supporting cast their moments to shine.

Not that most of the ladies in this category have been short - listed for playing saints, but the squawking Ryan's potty mouth reigns supreme in Gone Baby Gone: The calculated one - liners meant to elicit audience sympathy for Boston's lower class («I don't got no daycare» — essentially a variation of Amy «I got one leg» Poehler's Amber from SNL) are trumped by nasties like «Why don't you suck a nigger's dick, Bea,» «It smells like cock,» «Nigger please, I hid it,» «Fucks yous both,» and my personal favorite, «Who's the faggot now, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.»

«A coming - of - age story that successfully evokes emotions and audience sympathy» — Gilbert Seah, Festival Reviews

In one of the academic presentations, the audience laughed in sympathy with Gruber's portrayal of the people as stupid.