Sentences with phrase «parts than the scripts»

Portraying standard heroines in such films as Edison the Man (1940) and My Friend Flicka (1943), Johnson brought far more warmth and humanity to the parts than the scripts provided.

Not exact matches

But what screenwriter and Potter mainstay Steve Kloves does with the script in Part 2, tying those characters all together and giving them meaningful parts, is nothing less than masterful.

Mark Perez's script has more than a few twists and turns and a major part of the fun for the audience is trying to figure out what's real and what isn't.

And not even so much through... I'm not the world's greatest believer in auditions and line readings, and all that, because the condition is, somebody comes in with a script in their hand and stands there in your office, and they may be skillful, or whatever, but it's so different than what it will be under photographic conditions on the set, knowing you already have the part, knowing you are the character.

PATTI CAKE$ feels more fresh and original than the synopsis suggests, thanks in part to Macdonald's lead performance but also a strong supporting cast and a good script.

Will Beall's script is relentlessly posturing but authentically hard - boiled and the film more than looks the part, boasting a rich digital aesthetic, to - die - for costumes and fabulous sets; the recreation of Cohen's real hang - out, Slapsy Maxie's, being a particular highlight.

«There's a script for the next part of the story - but I would like to direct it rather than star in it,» says Sharon Stone, currently trying to record a hit single in Manhattan.

Director Jaume Collet - Serra put Neeson through his paces in Unknown and does the same here, unleashing him on a script that is not much more than a series of plot twists and evil genius scheming with so many moving parts that it could only work in the movies.

But what CHRISTINE does far better than «the other Christine Chubbuck film» is that it humanizes an elusive figure thanks in part to Craig Shilowich's script and Rebecca Hall's fully - realized, powerful performance.

It seems like it's better to make a stand alone film rather than waste time stretching the script to a tie in loose ends with the next two parts.

Clear by now that the script by «Sergei Petrov» and «Rene Fontaine» is actually by Dylan and director Charles, the main defense of the film is that it reads a little like a Dylan song, forgetting that Dylan's songs are, for the most part, poetry of a time and a place rather than rhythmless fictions too in love with their own obscurity.

The accompaniment is just fine, too; Lights shows a lot of promise, but the script desperately needed a second pass and the direction feels less sure of itself in parts than it was in Prince - Bythewood's classic Love and Basketball.

It drags a bit in the middle, and there's about five percent of the script that never recovered from the script doctoring scars inflicted in the past five years of rewrites, but for the most part, «Tower Heist» is a perfectly enjoyable film... far more enjoyable than it has any business being.

That the part registers at all is more down to Robbie's own peculiar blend of carnality and innocence than to anything in the script.

Schoenarts certainly looks the part of a paperback romantic hero, but the script's insistence on presenting Bruno simply as a good man in a bad situation are bland at best and disingenuous at worst, and leave the character less neutral than neutered.

Pilot is less heavy - handed than most, thanks in part to Michael Rhodes» sure direction and Patricia Green's fine, succinct script.

The script — written by director Paul Feig and Katie Dippold — quickly establishes its own wit and style, which offers a different vibe than the 1984 original (which relied in part on the comedic talents of Bill Murray).

Lily James, who may or may not have the making of a film star, is well cast as the recessive, restless and endlessly curious Juliet, and it's always a pleasure to watch Tom Courtenay in action: he has a way of bringing more to a part than is written down in the script.

Despite fantastic environmental design, solid action fundamentals and elaborate scripted sequences the game really becomes less than the sum of its parts, and it's surprising to see it flail around in this way.