Sentences with phrase «real names of his characters»

Not exact matches

Even if someone named Jesus with some sort of causal connection to the Jesus in the gospels existed, if you just blandly say that Jesus really existed, you sound like you are confirming the largely fictional being of the gospels rather than someone who stands oin some real but in many ways indirect, even tenuous relationship to this fictional character.

These Disney characters happen to also be the names of real - life royals, past and present.

So you guys saw this on Sesame Street especially those of you listening that have other children that may be a little bit older, you are probably very familiar with Sesame Street and one of the characters that has been on there for years and years her character name is Maria, her real life name is Sonia.

Chris Diamantopoulous (who I assume must keep the family name intact or be cursed) plays the type of Moe that honors both the strange bully character and the original real guy.

The Italian speaking American, Jack, now poses as a photographer and calls himself Edward, as he meets two friendly characters in the Italian village who seem more like symbols than real people: a kindly Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli) who once sired a bastard child and believes the Americano is a sinner worth saving and a local prostitute from the bordello with a heart of gold named Clara (Violante Placido).

Able to play characters ranging from a name - dropping Manhattan socialite to a withdrawn, abused wife, the 6» 0» Janney infuses all of her portrayals with equal parts poignancy and unforced gusto.A product of Dayton, Ohio, where she was born November 19, 1959, Janney was raised as the daughter of a homemaker and the president of a real estate firm.

In the long flashbacks that form the bulk of the film, Jerry's only real sign of dysfunction is his indifference to Elizabeth Hurley's character, an ambitious Englishwoman named Sandra who has her own high - powered television career.

One of the great character actors, William Shields (his real name) went from the civil service to the Abbey players to Hollywood — via John Ford's film of his former roommate Sean O'Casey's play The Plough And The Stars — and never looked back.

It is a bit much giving her main character the real - life name of Abigail, too.

Director Martin Scorsese was voted by the group as Best Director for his smash hit movie The Departed, while Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) was named Best Actor, and Helen Mirren (The Queen) continued her march to the Oscars as she was named Best Actress as both actors brought characters to real, and even sympathetic, life.

None of the characters are called by real names, neither in the film nor in the script, for reasons that one can only speculate about, further distancing these characters and their plights by being impersonal.

The most interesting note to come from it may be Fogelman's description of the title character as a cross between Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, and Rod Stewart, names that might have come to mind as you try to think of a realistic real - life counterpart.

Once in the backwoods, Melanie: reunites with sour Ma (Mary Kay Place) and dour Pa (Fred Ward), both actors modeling their characters on Grant Wood's necessarily two - dimensional painting «American Gothic»; «outs» poor Bobby Ray (Ethan Embry)-- in the real world, they'd probably have been hung from the same pole flying the Confederate Flag outside the local watering hole; and delivers the most embarrassing monologue since Phoebe Cates's in Gremlins to, of all things, a license plate marking the burial spot of a «coon dog» named after legendary Crimson Tide coach Paul «Bear» Bryant.

Uma Thurman plays a character simply known as The Bride (her real name is purposely bleeped out whenever mentioned), because we first see her bruised and beaten on the floor of the church where her entire wedding party has been slaughtered.

Therefore it was not used, but it was in the comic book adaptation, and many fans of the movie have adapted it as the character's «real» name.

More importantly, as Captain America: Civil War proves, they can balance a full - to - bursting line - up of superheroes and what is essentially three different movies — an extension of Winter Soldier's espionage vibe, an Avengers movie in everything but name, and a PTSD psychological drama — while still delivering something coherent, character - driven and more satisfying than the a series of things - blowed - up - real - good set pieces.

Jolie plays Christine Collins, a character based on a real - life woman of the same name whose nine - year - old son, Walter Collins, went missing without explanation in 1928.

Which is something previous Silent Hill comics were guilty of exploiting with their random character name drops and familiar location or game creatures that in the end served no real purpose to the story.

A skateboarding road - trip flick that will bore real skateboarders silly (and I should know — I've been one since the late»70s), it includes barely 10 minutes of badly - edited actual boarding, less than half of which features the main characters (no - name actors using obvious stunt doubles), who in the course of the movie perform only one trick (at the very end) that's beyond the abilities of any dedicated junior high school punk with a modicum of talent.

Edward Norton overwhelms as the egotistical replacement, a Broadway legend named Mike, who brings talent to match his ego and an intensity to make things real that has him changing Thomson's script, making a play for Thomson's daughter (Emma Stone, never better) and screwing up the first night of previews when his character's booze is just water.

The real estate urbanity is ripe for ridicule, and it's a shame that more wasn't made of this as The Architect instead treads a predictable path with a textbook love triangle, a requisite quirky charlatan, and other stale placeholder characters (such as Colin's dull and doting parents played by John Aylward and Pamela Reed, so perfunctory they don't even have names), none of which are very likeable.

Though the character of Black Panther (real name: T'Challa) was created in the 1960s, he has never had his own movie.

Star discusses behaviour of title character — whose real name is «Leo» — and Eddie Redmayne dishes out wands at Fantastic Beasts Potter panel

Lavant, the lead actor, is familiar to American audiences from his lead performances in the first three features of Leos Carax — Boy Meets Girl (1984), Bad Blood (1986), and Lovers on the Bridge (1992)-- in which he plays essentially the same character, a guy named Alex, Carax's own real first name.

The idea of students trapped in an auditorium after dark and chased by vengeful spirits isn't without promise, but rookie directors Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing show no facility for the kind of plausibly claustrophobic camera setups that make Paranormal Activity (or its sequels) so visually compelling; it also doesn't help that their cast of fresh - faced young actors (all playing characters under their real names) never quite inhabit the supposedly pants - wetting terror of their situation.

Although the remarkable number of recognizable faces to be found within the cast make it worth checking out (Sam Rockwell, Alyssa Milano, Matthew McConaughey, John Rhys - Davies, Kristin Bauer, French Stewart, Brendan Fraser, Leah Remini, Meredith Salinger, Mary Woronov, and Spaulding Gray all make appearances), the predominant reason we've included «Glory Daze» — which is, for the record, explores the hesitation all college graduates experience before entering the real world — is because no matter how many films he may eventually have to his credit, Matt Damon should never be allowed to escape the fact that, even though it was only for a few fleeting moments, he once played a character named Edward Pudwacker.

Morris has gathered an estimable cast of actors to play real - life characters, including Peter Sarsgaard as Frank and Molly Parker as his wife (Westworld's Jimmi Simpson has what amounts to a baffling cameo as a sinister man with no name and no dialogue).

But as adapted by William Wheeler — from Tim Crother's book of the same name — the script accentuates its clichés with well - rounded characters and real - life heartbreak, carrying it high above its Disney sports movie relatives.

To help create the appearance of a real movie, Chambers brings in a veteran Hollywood mogul named Lester Siegel (a hilarious Alan Arkin), a fictional character that the real filmmakers say is a composite of industry figures.

The character we mainly accompany on the beach is a young soldier, the generically named Tommy (Fionn Whitehead), seen at the start as the sole member of his detachment to make it through a hail of bullets — and I can't remember the last time that the sound of gunfire on screen felt so thunderously, dangerously real.

Josh Brolin is Eddie Mannix, Capitol Pictures» executive producer, problem solver, and media fixer, a character loosely based on the real man of the same name, who served the same function for MGM (and was thought to be complicit in the death of the original on - screen Superman, George Reeves.)

Nicieza and Liefeld created the character as [a spoof of the DC Comics character](http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/deadpool-complete-history/] Deathstroke, hence Deadpool's real name being similar to Deathstroke's real name, Slade Wilson.

Baloo the Bear is a loyal friend to the film's lead character, a young boy named Mowgli, and tries convincing Mowgli to leave the jungles of India for a better life out in the real world.

Zaror, dubbed the Bruce Lee of Latin America, is cast as Zaror (which happens to be his real last name), henchman to Mel Gibson's villainous character.

But those aren't REAL problems as, if you strip «Paper Mario» from the name, replace it by something else with Mario and Paper, and then say it is not part of the Paper Mario series, all the (although still valid) critics of lack of storyline and characters would be taken less seriously (even though the game would of been much better with) and the hate would be much less abundant then it is now, which is much more than it should be.

Ryan Gosling has made a name for himself playing characters who live on the fringes of society: his breakout role as a Nazi - sympathizing Jew in The Believer, a half - baked teacher in Half Nelson, a man in love with a blow - up doll in Lars And The Real Girl, and most recently, a fledgling musician whose temper and lack of ambition prove destructive to his family in Blue Valentine.

Michael German, upon whose story Daniel Ragussis adapts this movie, tells of real events, changing the names of the characters.

Unnaturally thin, these two actors deserve real credit for committing to the art and bringing to life these characters who suffer tremendously in the name of religion.

Laura Dern plays Resistance officer Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, while Benecio Del Toro plays DJ, «a shady character of unclear allegiances,» whose real name hasn't been revealed yet (insane conspiracy theory time: what if he's somehow playing The Collector and the MCU is also the Star Wars universe?

Strip away half of the characters, have Chili trying to push forward a real musical talent other than a singer with dynamic range, and stop riding so hard on Pulp Fiction for inspiration, and perhaps Be Cool might actually live up to its name.

The characters, the places, the names, and even many of the objects are real,» he says.

- Gjengangeren (Norwegian newspaper) «Crime fans may enjoy Brekke's in - jokes, such as naming minor characters after real - life serial killers, but they will quickly tire of the lagging plot.»

Firstly, most, if not all, of the real life characters that Puzo hinted at are now dead, which means that whereas Puzo could only hint at similarities between Johnny Fontane and Frank Sinatra, Winegardner can name names.

The main character of The People in the Trees is based on a real man named Carleton Gajdusek, who spent much of the 1950s in Papua New Guinea, working with a tribe called the South Foré, who were beset with a mysterious and fatal neurodegenerative disease they called «kuru,» or the shaking.

I've used the real names of many of the true - life characters involved.

The real characters of Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge, who used the police strike to launch his national political career, Babe Ruth and a young federal attorney named John E. Hoover, add to the realism of the novel.

Bowen, who writes children's books under the pen name Margaret McNamara, sets her novel in coastal Maine, where a cast of characters are relieved of their real - world woes by a summer diet of lobster, lazy days and long strolls.

A Prisoner in Malta is populated with lots of personages whose names and reputations have been bequeathed to the annals of British history (The novel contains a helpful appendix of thumbnail biographical sketches of some of the more infamous real - life characters who figure prominently in the story).

He's got a real sense of things like names, and his sense of wonder at creating a world comes out in things like the names of characters and the names of places.

While it's true that most, if not all, of our characters are like us in some capacity, we probably should never name them after us (or any real people, for that matter).