Sentences with phrase «on young female characters»

So many horror movies focus on young female characters, and so few of them connect to those characters in a meaningful way.

Not exact matches

To come up with characters soldiers can relate to, Rizzo and his team showed them renderings of around 20 potential candidates before settling on the three most popular ones: Female Aviator, a young woman wearing a green aviator suit (pictured above); Battle Buddy, an African - American soldier with a shaved head; and Retired Sergeant Major, a plainspoken civilian with close - cropped silver hair and a blue sweater who sits on a porch that looks out on rolling farmlands.

Moving on to Charlize Theron in Young Adult, another supposed woman acting outside the norm of typical female characters — how disappointing to find that being a complex character meant drinking until you pass out, ignoring your dog, and trying to steal another woman's man.

The rest of the article focuses on other strong female characters in young adult franchises such as Divergent, The Mortal Instruments, and The Hunger Games.

Asked to take on the older female role in a play she did 20 years ago (playing the younger female role), Maria comes to question the merits of both the character she's been cast as — particularly her weaknesses and vulnerability — and how this may reflect on her own personality.

Deservedly lauded at Sundance for its frankness and non-judgemental approach to female and young - adult sexuality, the film impresses on its own terms as a solidly - constructed character study of a mercurial, still - forming artist, told with a straight face despite the period eccentricities.

From the Netflix film Barry, where she portrays a young Barack Obama's college girlfriend, to the lead female alongside James McAvoy's caustic character in M. Night Shyamalans's Split, the 20 year - old is the name on every casting director's lips.

Other trends that will be followed in the coming year will include a more scientific sci - fi, more emphasis on biographies and history for younger readers, more cartoon - based novels like the popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, strong female protagonists and survival / adventure stories, and a greater appreciation for diversity in both the characters and the story lines of these titles.

Both books serve to explore dark and complicated adult issues from the perspective of astute, young female characters, and both stories focus on a moment in time when the child's world is turned upside down.