Sentences with phrase «play archetypes»

It feels like for the majority of this decade Japanese (non-Atlus) developers have been increasingly retreating behind clichés to the extent that the characters are scarcely more nuanced than morality play archetypes of the middle ages... it's just another way in which their industry has languished.

Ryan Gosling seems to struggle a little, but Natalie Portman, Rooney Mara and Michael Fassbender are able to play these archetypes without being overtly wooden.

Blanchett plays archetypes — each existing in a different scenario — who recite, either in voice - over or as dialogue, the philosophies of various artists and thinkers.

Blanchett plays archetypes — each existing in a different...

Aside from the stereotypical role - playing archetypes, there are some other RPG elements to the game.

Not exact matches

In his post on the company blog, on Monday, Musk labeled Eberhard as someone who falsely «plays to a common archetype — that of the noble inventor whose invention is usurped by the rich and powerful businessman.»

This group of five features two wildly different archetypes: eclectic, aging former champs — and amateurs that played their way in via the US & British Amateurs.

While his ability to link play and drift away from defenders made a great added bonus to the typical bulky goalscoring number nine archetype, it is the bare minimum expected of him in an attacking midfield role — when moved back, he could go from being Swansea's best player to a run - of - the - mill playmaker.

Waldorf educators see the activity of playing flute as a class or taking part in an orchestra or band as the archetype of truly social behavior.

For those who never dropped a quarter to play a video game, the arcade classic Rampage offered players the chance to destroy one city after another as one of three giant monster archetypes: a crypto - King Kong gorilla, a pseudo-Godzilla lizard, and a «we need a third giant animal» wolf.

The plot plays to relive situations and archetypes that retain the essence of noir... [Full Review in Spanish]

These flicks have been a formulaic goldmine for years; a good caper has always lent itself to quality entertainment, and even after seeing the same archetype played out over and over, we still aren't tired of them.

by Walter Chaw Larry Fessenden's Wendigo plays like a chthonic rite: it's terrifying in its brutal purity and delicious in its ability to pull domestic trauma into the well of archetype where it festers.

The protagonist is such a profoundly boring and uncharismatic character, as played by Jack Lowden, that it falls to these successive manic pixie dream girl archetypes to push him into doing really anything at all, and when his efforts fail - which they almost always do - they are cast aside.

The Cubelock, even though it lost N'Zoth, remains one of the strongest decks to play, but Baku and Genn introduce some interesting mechanics that, while limits players to a certain pool of cards, can create very powerful deck archetypes.

Cruise goes from playing the cocky, unstoppable Cruise archetype to a deformed, defeated man trying to figure out what matters.

These things play integral parts in throwing the story off course from the straightforward tale of revenge ending in a showdown that Rockwell's Billy Bickle desperately wants it to be, and so the film becomes an odd battle of archetypes battling to push the story's finale towards the ending they think it should have.

They're class archetypes, familiar tropes, you may even say racially stereotypical in some instances, but I think Agents of Mayhem plays on this purposefully and playfully too with these caricatures.

Also, the archetypes that the Coens play with go against expectation, especially in the case of the femme fatale (Abby... or is she one?).

It is a film that opens with the words «Once Upon a Time...» and plays with archetypes of the genre from there.

The 1982 comedy «Fast Times at Ridgemont High» is the prototypical coming - of - age guy flick best known for enduring stoner - surfer archetype Jeff Spicoli, played by future Oscar winner Sean Penn, the image of a topless Phoebe Cates and as the introduction...

And another good thing, if I'm going to play Lucille, Guillermo's the one to do that with because he's going to make sure that it's not just this flat archetype of a character.

The 1982 comedy «Fast Times at Ridgemont High» is the prototypical coming - of - age guy flick best known for enduring stoner - surfer archetype Jeff Spicoli, played by future Oscar winner Sean Penn, the image of a topless Phoebe Cates and as the introduction to the amiable zen of screenwriter Cameron Crowe, who would go on to create such bro - riffic tales as «Say Anything,» «Singles,» «Jerry Maguire» and «Almost Famous.»

Cooper and Turshen don't play it broadly like the Horny Teen Boy and Pretty Popular Girl archetypes we so often see, finding subtlety in the stereotypes.

Scott keeps it moving a fast pace, and while Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe are playing little more than archetypes, their performances are strong.

Since appearing as an awkward geek in Superbad in 2007, we've seen him play slight variations of the same archetype in Juno, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Paper Heart, Year One and, now, Youth in Revolt.

Much like his roles in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and Prisoners, he plays the perfect Disney - friendly, young adult archetype.

While director Triffett is clearly making fun of the archetypes his characters play, he also has great empathy for the lonely teenagers behind them.

Richard Armitage is playing with pure archetype, but still manages to provide subtlety in his broad character's behaviour.

Not that it doesn't have fun with the obvious archetypes — Josh Brolin was basically born to play the kind of gruff, no - nonsense commanding officer who stands on ridges talking to the wildfires as he tries to predict where they're headed next.

Designed by the director and his longtime screenwriter Gerard Soeteman as a medieval romp with Verhoevian indulgences, Flesh + Blood also re-teamed the pair with actor Rutger Hauer, who began his career playing a swashbuckling archetype in the 1969 Dutch TV series Floris.

It also helps to have a charismatic male supporting cast that are used as more than good - looking mannequins, rather than just sticking in stock window dressing roles playing to established archetypes.

In the film's present day setting, Ford has some fun with the archetypes of the jet set — creating a luxurious dandy in Michael Sheen (a purple dinner jacket steals the show), an Auntie Mame eccentric in Andrea Riseborough and an L.A. nightmare in a museum curator played by Jena Malone.

Unfolding like a classic Seventies disaster flick, San Andreas serves up a smorgasbord ofreadily - identifiable archetypes: the musclebound hero, the effete coward, the damsel in distress, the terminally - nerdy professor, and so on, each played with perfect aplomb by a talented cast.

It is slightly jarring as we are so used to the comedic timing of a witty ex-cop John McClane archetype, that here Washington plays a somewhat introverted, more pensive and less charismatic character which takes the film from an average action thriller to a suspenseful character - driven narrative.

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

It's just that, despite being based on fact, at times, the movie feels and plays like a formulaic disaster flick, with Banderas as the dynamic hero archetype.

He has lovingly created all sorts of teen archetypes: geeky anarchists (usually played by Anthony Michael Hall), adorable princesses (Molly Ringwald's specialty), even Angst - ridden loners (Judd Nelson in «The Breakfast Club»).

The men too are archetypes: Jerry is an adulterer who keeps secrets because he's never honest with himself, Barry epitomizes the inadequacies of a man who's lost control of his life, and Carry is the sexually potent male for whom women are toys to be played with.

Carter and Glowicki play their parts with a liveliness that brings them out of their written archetypes.

So when I heard that Dead by Daylight was finally making the transition to consoles I couldn't help but get excited; as a massive Horror Hound the prospect of playing a game that allowed you to take control of Michael Myers, The Shape from the Halloween films, amongst an assortment of other antagonists crafted from different genre archetypes definitely appealed to me and would serve as a nice counterpoint to stalking around Crystal Lake.

For the first time since getting stuck in Jennifer Garner's friend zone on «Alias,» Cooper plays against his likable - asshole archetype, and he reasonably resembles John Cusack's strung - out, stringy - haired schlub from «Being John Malkovich.»

When not trouble - shooting for Maddox from afar, Stanaforth interacts with earthbound colleague and apparent best friend Louis Skinner, an ever - earnest Mission Control archetype played by Luke Wilson.

The Wandering Soap Opera presents a succession of archetypes, of actors playing characters who essentially look exactly as you'd expect them to: the flighty ingénue, the nobly vampish middle - aged romantic heroine, the grey - templed older roué, assorted raffish bohemians, harassed civil servant types... I didn't recognize anyone in the cast, although somewhere in there is Francisco Reyes, who can currently be seen as the ill - fated older lover in Sebastián Lelio's Oscar - nominated A Fantastic Woman.

The characters portrayed in each of Lee's films do not fit the mould of the man's - gotta - do archetype Washington plays over and over again elsewhere.

While I personally like playing within an archetype, having a generational 99 power / 99 speed type player to mess around with is always fun.

It'll be quirky and fun, but also a bit of a tearjerker at the same time, often involving known actors in roles that don't automatically play into their established acting archetypes.

In Criminal, Costner steps out of his normal fatherly type archetype roles and plays a bad guy.

The classes will feel immediately familiar if you have played any of the Odyssey games as they embody the same class archetypes: Medic, Hexer, Protector, Gunner, the difficult - to - pronounce Landsknecht and so on.

I think traditional controls edge out motion for me (nothing beats Gyro aiming though), my only concern is when one archetype of a button layout becomes the industry standard and every game suddenly plays the same.