Sentences with phrase «older main character»

In a genre where teenagers seem to save the world on a regular basis, it was nice to see an older main character.

This is easily the best «twist» on the standard formula as an older main character naturally brings an older supporting cast.

With all this in mind, let's take another look at YA Angus, Thongs and Full - Frontal Snogging and middle grade The Night Gardener, both with 14 - year - old main characters.

Maybe Kojima's next nomination will be for «having the oldest main character in a stealth game» or something.

Not exact matches

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

The main character, Hazel Grace Lancaster, was a seventeen - year - old girl who was dying of cancer.

If you know old movies, you'll recognize nearly all of the six main characters from other flicks of that era.

Dressed in Hogwart's school uniforms, the girls giggle as they recall watching the first movie when they, like the main characters, were 11 years old.

The acting was decent from the father figure and the main character girl, but the old English vocabulary made many of the lines almost cringey and somewhat comical.

The main character is, of course, a white man, Capt. Joseph J. Blocker (Christian Bale), who hates Indians, but who gets the order to escort chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi) and his family back to Montana, where the terminally ill old chief can die in peace on his own land; the president himself (a real one) has signed the order for it.

Though the film is called Coco, the main character is actually Miguel (Gonzalez, The Bridge), a twelve - year - old Mexican boy who has big dreams of one day becoming a famous musician, much like the romantic legendary guitar playing movie star, Ernesto de la Cruz (voiced by Bratt, Doctor Strange).

If the documentary has a main character, it's Hope, a 16 - year - old with a wild shock of jet - black hair, whose abusive father tricked him into going to the camp.

He gives us an old - fashioned Hollywood romantic charmer that's updated with modern touches such as interracial friendships and a main character who might still be a shark in a suit but is at least willing to be introspective about his darker side (which I assume is not very common among sports agents).

While there are several mile - wide plot holes and one key under - developed main character, the film emerges as a tight, intriguing old - fashioned drama that gives audiences a hero worth rooting for.

Or the little obnoxious droid that follows the two main characters, they find the old decepticon and they teleport to the desert, apparently the little droid was hanging onto the things leg, he falls off, and they never show him again or mention him again, but he somehow reappears and is somewhat of a main character in the Dark of the Moon.

Old School DOES have some very funny moments but the real problem is the three main characters are about as dysfunctional and sorry as people get.

A good number of our main characters are closer to catching on to what Luck's horse trainers, old Walter (Nick Nolte) and Turo (John Ortiz), seem to know already: These horses aren't just lucky talismans; they also possess a purity of spirit that rehabilitates many of the show's jaded characters.

Marina de Van The main character in Marina de Van's Dark Touch is Niamh (Missy Keating), an 11 - year - old girl who discovers she has supernatural powers when said powers go a little haywire and end up killing her abusive parents.

New unlockable characters Nico Minoru, Chase Stein, Alex Wilder, Karolina Dean, Molly Hayes, Old Lace, and Gertrude Yorkes add to the main game's roster of over 200 Super Heroes and Super Villains.

In an old - school inspired platform game a well - developed story is hardly a requirement, but Rad Rodgers: World One's writing will make you feel connected to the two main characters» and their playful mannerism.

Kaitlyn Dias voices the main human character — an eleven - year - old girl named Riley — but the main cast is composed of actors who voice her different emotional states.

Aloy is the main character, she's around 20 years old and is a machine hunter.

And in fact, he's an old friend who's very bright and funny and talented, but we also have a mutual friend who's the inspiration for one of the main characters.

I ask these questions because in the newest 20th Century - Fox release, Mr. Popper's Penguins, (based on a popular children's tome and directed by Mark Waters, «The Spiderwick Chronicles,» «Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past «-RRB- features the main character not only getting dumped on twice within the first 15 minutes, but he is also treated to a good old - fashioned soccer ball kick in the groin.

Now, 23 years later, Gary King has yet to ever top that moment — which makes him a very sad, yet funny, main character — and is on a quest to bring the old gang back together to finish the crawl.

We have seen these types of comedies before where the main character is this deplorable human or some old curmudgeon.

An older man with long gray haired man and oval glasses introduces the two main characters Peter Aitken (Christopher Denham) and his girlfriend Lorna Michaelson (Nicole Vicius) to the rest of the group.

The main character is a young woman with a mysterious past and powers, attaching herself to the much - hated» villain» Blackheart in his quest to destroy his old rival Goldenloin and the oppressive institution that employs him.

Every scene is constructed with a need for mass appeal, targeting slapstick for the kiddies and plenty of old film references for the adults, and almost all of these are a distraction from the main story, rather than a means to enhance the characters or plot.

His upcoming film brings us inside the mind of an 11 - year - old girl, with her emotions playing the main characters.

These days, of course, Grant is too long in the chops to play the 21 - year - old Richard Curtis, who is also the de facto main character in his new movie, About Time, out next Friday.

It's an adventure built inside the mind of an eleven - year - old girl with her emotions as main characters.

Riley, an 11 - year - old girl who recently moved with her family to San Francisco, is not the main character but the setting for the film.

Note: Though the film's main character is 13 years old, parents should be aware that much of the film's score features hip - hop with extremely explicit language, language that is echoed at various passages in the dialogue.

Fresh: While there are several mile - wide plot holes and one key under - developed main character, the film emerges as a tight, intriguing old - fashioned drama that gives audiences a hero worth rooting for.

He lays it all out for you — his main character's contradictions — in his patented measured, old - fashioned style.

It's an ensemble piece with no true main character, although the closest is Lionel Barrymore as «Grandpa» Vanderhof, an eccentric old coot who oversees a motley houseful of family members and drop - in visitors.

Josh Radnor, probably best known for his continuing role in the TV sitcom How I Met Your Mother, is not only the writer - director of the semi-autobiographical Liberal Arts, but he also plays its main character, Jesse Fisher, a 35 - year - old New Yorker experiencing some sort of midlife crisis.

Each of the main characters provide a bit of interest on their own: Chris Evans as the main rabble - rouser, Jamie Bell as his right - hand man, John Hurt as the old - timer and Octavia Spencer as the wronged - mother.

Synopsis: Nymphomaniac is the wild and poetic story of a woman's erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self - diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe.On a cold winter's evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman, finds Joe beaten up in an alleyway.

It should have, however, lingered longer in 1966; we spend much of the 114 minute running time with the main character's younger selves (Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas and Sam Worthington) and this attachment doesn't fully translate to their older personas.

With main characters who are former superheroes trying to pursue justice in the turbulent 1960s, The American Way: Those Above and Those Below is a comic book series about revolutions old and new.

The motto for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 appears to be out with the old and in with the new, seen clearly in the choice of main characters and the inclusion of many new faces alongside just a handful of old favourites.

Discussing the story ideas that were not working, Sohn laid out some examples, including how Arlo the main character was originally supposed to be 25 - years - old.

3rd Graders (8 to 9 - year - olds) 4th Graders (9 to 10 - year - olds) 5th Graders (10 to 11 - year - olds) 6th Graders (11 to 12 - year - olds) 7th Graders (12 to 13 - year - olds) Visual Learners Homeschoolers Children's ministry leaders Interactive learners EACH BOOK OF THE BIBLE WORKSHEET INCLUDES: ✵ Bible summary writing activity ✵ Bible coloring activities ✵ Main events writing activity ✵ Main Bible characters writing activity ✵ Bible lesson writing activity BOOKS OF THE BIBLE INCLUDE: OLD TESTAMENT Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, NEW TESTAMENT Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts (of the Apostles), Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, and Revelation.

A Cross-Grade Writing Activity Older students interview younger students, then use what they learn to write a short storybook that features the youngster as the main character.

Since they had already met all the main characters in the story, the older kiddos started off with this writing prompt:

The two main human characters here are Maria and Marcus, who meet in the West Texas car lot where the 20 - year - old Buick Electra has most recently landed.

A long - standing decree from publishers warned agents (and therefore, authors) against submitting manuscripts with main characters older than 18 or younger than mid-20s.

Waves of global terrorism and a tough, contemporary 15 - year - old protagonist are the defining elements in this startlingly original first novel, which tenderly interweaves a deeply felt first romance with the main character's transition from sardonic, self - absorbed teen to resourceful survivor.