Sentences with phrase «portray real characters»

Whatever happened to satire with political undertones that are as smart as they are ruthless, that portray real characters in extremis but not as cartoons?

More than he's been allowed to do in either Collet - Serra vehicle before this one, Neeson gets to portray a real character here, a man who may have once had a particular set of skills but has seen then dulled by age, regret and whiskey.

Not exact matches

The film will chart the true story of just how the housing bubble burst, and Bale, Gosling and Pitt will all portray real - life (albeit, more handsome) characters who helped engineer the disaster...

Rather than addressing the real reasons women don't breastfeed - reasons that range from histories of sexual abuse and body image issues to economic and physical constraints - the campaign «portrays anything short of exclusive breastfeeding... as a sign of moral corruption and bad character....

While Dillinger is sympathetically portrayed, he falls just short of full three - dimensionality, with the character never quite emerging from the shadow of the real - world legend.

Paul's real - life wife, Oscar - winning actress, Jennifer Connelly («A Beautiful Mind»), convincingly portrays Darwin's wife Emma and gives us the antagonist character of the «person of faith,» who expressed her doubts about Charles» work from the onset.

She believes that by portraying a real person, an actor takes on a lot of responsibility: «You want to do justice to their memory, to their character, to who they were, or who they are in this case.

A number of other lead actor contenders this year have portrayed real - life characters as well, and there's quite a wide range.

For every movie featuring an Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Alice or Katniss Everdeen, Asian film industries managed to produce several dozen more entertaining, hard - hitting action flicks featuring strong female characters portrayed by butt - kicking heroines, many of them real - life martial arts champions or physically gifted dancers or performers.

Danny [Dietz]'s character, that I portray, a real - life Navy SEAL, he was like a very serious, badass guy to his core.

Part of that is the fact that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the actors portraying the two characters, are so close in real life.

I am glad that in Doris, we have a fully realized older female character with real flaws and foibles who tries, however awkwardly, to bridge the romantic generational gap generally portrayed by Hollywood as unable to be crossed by older women.

I believe in a lot of ways you get the feeling that Nathan Drake is more of a real life person rather then the insane video game character portrayed in game.

«Unlikely Heroes: The Characters of The Big Short» (11:28) allows the actors to talk about their roles and to consider the real people being portrayed or composited.

There are a number of real historical figures portrayed in the film, including William Randolph Hearst, Nelson Rockerfeller, Orson Welles, Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo, and lesser knowns like Hazel Huffman, Hallie Flanagan and others that all interact with the fictional characters in the movie.

The parents in the film are beautifully portrayed and they have their own real characters and storylines.

So casual observers may be surprised to find that the movie, which recreates and riffs off of real interviews with its «characters,» portrays Harding as only vaguely aware of the plot instigated by her on - and - off lover / abuser Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), and even portrays Gillooly himself as not entirely aware of the measures that his delusional right - hand man Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser) is willing to take.

It's not that it's depressing, but rather the gritty realism of character's lives is so convincingly portrayed by each and every actor that it feels real.

Kaiji Tang: On the acting side of things, I feel that finding something real in each character you portray is the secret to creating strong performances.

«I think that ultimately most movies portray vulnerability as a loss of innocence, but by the end of this movie, it's the opposite direction,» says Deutch, who in real life speaks with the same breakneck cadence as her character.

The film serves up a substantially fictionalized version of events, as only a couple of the characters here were real - life heroines, namely, Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 - 1928) and Emily Wilding Davison (1872 - 1913), portrayed by Meryl Streep and Natalie Press, respectively.

However to be involved with characters so real, with depth & realism as Mr. Whitehead portrays, made... - marganna How do Cora's challenges in North Carolina mirror what America is still struggling with today?

- Tova Mirvis, author of The Ladies Auxiliary and The Outside World «In this gem of a book Anouk Markovits takes a reader to an exotic world, portrayed with such warmth and precision that the journey feels perfectly real and the characters become your intimate friends.»

However to be involved with characters so real, with depth & realism as Mr. Whitehead portrays, made... - marganna

Kaiji Tang: On the acting side of things, I feel that finding something real in each character you portray is the secret to creating strong performances.

Not real in the sense that it accurately portrays real life, but contextual reality for the characters.

The only real graphical hitch that i noticed was that sometimes the enemies would clip through objects within the environment, and that every characters facial expressions don't seem to portray many emotions.

Unlike the characters in Wittig's novel, the women portrayed in Santiago Muñoz's video are real, and the story is rooted in the specific place and time that they inhabit — including Caribbean cities, bankrupted states, and coastal towns.

Lily James (Cinderella, Downton Abbey) portrays a fictional character based on Betty Kirby - Green, a real - life pilot who flew with A.E. Clouston back in 1937 from England to Cape Town and back in a record - breaking trip, wearing Burberry while flying a plane that was sponsored by the company.