Sentences with phrase «on established characters»

In stark contrast with Dynasty Warriors, which has the ability to reinvent and reimagine how its characters are portrayed, Fist of the North Star is built on established characters and personalities.

For a series reboot, it's interesting to see the new takes on established characters, but sadly Simon is fairly generic.

These games defined Nintendo as a true innovator on its established characters and concepts, making old things seem new and fresh.

From what I understand Kathy Kennedy has been searching for female directors with pitch ideas for something new within the Star Wars universe, not focusing on an established character.

I like that Sánchez doesn't linger on establishing these characters, giving them just enough definition to know and appreciate.

Not exact matches

Although most success is ultimately rewarded with a larger paycheck or promotion, the small patterns you create on a daily basis become part of your character and not only increase your overall happiness but showcase skill and establish confidence.

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

With the exception of Koheleth, who is late and therefore drawing on an already established usage, all these sources are strongly priestly in character (the Amos instance comes in a formal hymnic doxology which may or may not be the prophet's own work).

He has established a recognisable house style which allows the quality of the fruit to shine through the depth of character that comes with ageing on lees.

As Banrock Station's Chief Winemaker for more than 10 years, Paul has harnessed the knowledge and skills he developed during stints in California and Tuscany to establish our unique signature style of easy drinking wines that retain true fruit character on the palate.

I feel they won this round, especially since the biggest established tag team on Raw relies on character pops instead of actual ring work.

Just so we're straight on this, though... If you routinely drink yourself into a stupor and show up for work half - drunk, you've got more integrity and character than if you do whatever you can to play as well as you can, within the established norms of your contemporary colleagues?

«While her smear campaign relies on character assassination and guilt by association, this response is based on established and objective facts.

He has established a brand on social - media, using conversational, 140 - character posts to his Twitter account to campaign and to deliver news to city residents.

I can't offer a bias - free opinion on Klein's fate, but anyone who actually cares about sexual harassment should be concerned with establishing a fair policy and process for investigation that doesn't rely on character attacks.

Indeed, within the solar system, the IAU has established many outside - the - mythology - box naming conventions, such as craters on Mercury after deceased artists, and Shakespearean characters for Uranus's moons.

Early on, you try to establish character while still being funny, but it's a lot of work, then you shed characters and concentrate on what the audience seems to respond to - and hopefully at this time, the audience is still there.

Rather than collecting a bunch of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down in its own plot that it forgets to be funny.

For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.

Born in Fayetteville, GA (a suburb of Atlanta), actor Gary Anthony Williams attended Clayton State College and went on to establish himself as one of the most - sought after character players of the 2000s, maintaining his most frequent presence on television.

The Family Stone sorts out its characters admirably, depends on typecasting to help establish its characters more quickly, and finds a winding path between happy and sad secrets.

Amour suffers from some pacing issues, although these are largely the result of Haneke using «dead space» (such as a sequence in which his camera spends an inordinate amount of time focused on paintings or an interminable scene in which Georges attempts to capture a pigeon that has entered his home) to establish a tone or develop a character.

The director's verbal digressions (he's as much a motormouth as his characters are) usually serve purely to establish character depth, most notably in the gratuity debate in Reservoir Dogs (in his next life, Mr. Pink was reincarnated as a mediocre waiter) and the foot massage debate in Pulp Fiction which concludes with the meta - aside, «C'm on, let's get into character.»

These characters [Professor Xavier and Magneto] were established in the comic books but also in the movies by two other actors and my questions is, did you look at the actors or did you base your performance on the comic book?

You will work with the Art Director and a team of 2D and 3D artists to establish the direction for our character designs on upcoming projects;

That said, when a number of major emotional moments in Infinity War are based entirely on character development established in previous movies, it sometimes comes off as cheap and unearned.

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers throws all of the wonderful character study out the window established in the previous film and just aims straight on for pure terror only, and ultimately misses its mark.

Thor does set up the character well for his future appearances in the MCU though, as well as establishing his family relationships, which become important later on.

By the time a necrotic viral pandemic spread cross-country to small town America and infected the film's titular character, 16 - year - old MAGGIE (ABIGAIL BRESLIN), authorities had established a protocol for patients infected with the deadly virus: they are removed from society and taken to special iso... Read On

Continuing with the formula they've established of taking typically male - dominated genres (raunch comedy, buddy action movie) and inserting a dominance of women into the primary characters, this one sees McCarthy take on the role of Susan Cooper, a well - trained CIA agent who has spent her time in the agency as the desk - bound partner in the earpiece of well - groomed field agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law).

The first several minutes of «In the Fade» are vital because they lay out the crime on which the plot hinges and also establish the film's lead character, Katja (Diane Kruger), as capable of joy.

Taking the time to establish the characters rather than jumping straight into the chills and thrills, West's fifth feature (with Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever also on his resume) combines horror with humour in an offering purposefully full of contrasts.

There is so much going on here, so many characters, both new and old, to be established and reestablished for the future, that often it can overwhelm the senses, but not in the positive, high - octane blockbuster kind of way.

The sequel begins with a new case — the famous Amityville incident — which screenwriters Chad Hayes, Carey Hayes, David Leslie Johnson and Wan only touch on briefly to give the audience a sense of where the characters are at in their careers and, rather seamlessly, efficiently establish a new internal and external threat in the film.

It's an entertaining two and a half hours of superhero fun with a decent plot that gives all its character's development time, and properly establishes motives and actions on either side of an argument about regulating superheroes.

The excellent work in establishing characters and the group's relationship early on is nearly all but thrown out the window or forgotten about for large portions of the film to make way for prolonged, self indulgent action sequences that we have all seen many times before and that are all too common in a Frost, Pegg, Wright collaboration.

The film also establishes Scott as a filmmaker looking for thematically rich material; these characters» battle with each other mirrors the wars going on around them, and the struggle within themselves between desire and honor.

After establishing one character, the movie gets to its foundation: a group of travelers from around the globe go on a whale watching trip in Iceland.

His characters and period are well - established, the music choices are delicious (Sopranos co-star and E Street Band member Steven van Zandt was music supervisor), and he has a real feel for the draw of rock at that moment — the sensuality of it, the hungry way that his ingénue (Bella Heathcote) looks at Mick Jagger on television and transfers that gaze to Douglas.

I'm very interested in costume drama, and if one commandeers it, the film needs to establish itself as different from costume drama on television and in cinema, which is all about the interior [of characters].

Director Mahamat Saleh Haroun spends no time establishing the main draw of Grigris «title character; in the opening moments we see the young, disabled dancer (played by non-professional Souleymane Démé) busting some moves on the dance floor to a rapturous audience.

That fact is partly due to the screenplay by longtime Boyle collaborator John Hodge, which doesn't quite establish strong character foundations on the page, hence making some of Richard's late character turns feel arbitrary.

Perhaps if The Bad Batch were less concerned about constantly establishing its mood and atmosphere through sound and visuals and more (or equally) focused on engaging audiences with its characters and plot, it would have been a much more entertaining film.

The early trailers for the movie are promising, and Michael B. Jordan has quickly established himself as a strong leading man, but «Creed» only works if the focus remains on the title character, and that seems unlikely with Sylvester Stallone involved.

Unlike those other two James films, which focus as much or more on James's killer, this film is more of a straight biopic, as, after a opening sequence establishing a robbery gone wrong and James's mother lying sick in bed, various characters relate the major events of James's life in 15 minute episodes.

Early on, as we are establishing the characters, the laughs come easily and frequently.

Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana clearly clicked, their scenes together were on point, and fans new and established really responded to the idea of a relationship between the two characters.

With all the character building already established in «The Unexpected Journey» and the omission of the drawn out and, frankly, tedious songs, Jackson finds his feet on more solid ground here.

The film concentrates on Peter Pan as a boy, meeting and establishing relationships with characters from Barre's most famous work.

A new trailer for the upcoming sci - fi horror / thriller Morgan has been released and this one focuses on establishing the title character...