Sentences with phrase «ostensible hero»
Our ostensible hero is Thomas (Callum Turner, «War & Peace»), a whiny post-adolescent who revels in supposedly pithy observations along the lines of «New York's most vibrant neighborhood is Philadelphia.»
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By the end of the film, he's killed the ostensible hero of the story, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) and possibly killed his wife, Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald) as well.
Where John Wayne's Ethan Edwards went looking for a young girl abducted in a Comanche raid, Bidegain's ostensible hero is a father searching for a daughter who has left her family of her own volition to be with her Muslim boyfriend.
Really only Tsui Hark has managed to make a great movie out of an origin story (with A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon), and that was by turning the ostensible hero into a side character for much of the film, allowing it to be driven by his mentor.
That pretty much sidelines Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), the ostensible hero of the tale, while redirecting the focus to characters who never appeared in the original novel or in Tolkien's universe at all, namely the above - mentioned Orcs with a grudge against Thorin (Richard Armitage), the Dwarf who would be king.
Regardless of its base motives, Basic Instinct gave us a powerful woman character who made its ostensible hero look like a whiny wimp, as Dargis implies, and in the long run that investment of power may have mattered as much as, or more than, the nonsense and nastiness.
Not exact matches
Rounding out the Warner platter are two vacuous promotional featurettes, one a Liam Neeson love - in («Liam Neeson: Known Action Hero» (5 mins., HD)-RRB-, the other an ostensible making - of («Unknown: What is Known?»