Sentences with phrase «screen persona»

He's become such a fascinating screen persona in such a short time, playing at times into and at times away from his own big - ness.

As an actor, he will be remembered for the good films, and for a distinctive screen persona as a guy who could win a heart with a song.

It's the opposite of an Event Movie for the summer season; instead, it's an old - fashioned star vehicle, fashioned for the particular screen persona of Al Pacino, who can usually play these roles in his sleep, but adds something special every single time.

Superstars are given a random set of canned phrases that don't match their on screen personas at all.

He should get some credit for guiding both Ferrell and Galifianakis in playing characters who are at a certain distance from their usual screen personas.

Maguire is wholly effective in the role, mixing his quiet, subdued screen persona with a newfound physicality.

It's hard not to appreciate the pic's devil - may - care attitude, Johnson's prickly - but - likable screen persona, and Wayans» effortless channeling of his famous father.

Taylor's rugged on - screen and off - screen persona created a brand of Australian masculinity now enjoyed by actors such as Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe and Sam Worthington.

Whilst the focus of many reviews of Lost in Translation has been on the renaissance of Bill Murray's career, Coppola's choice in casting him in the starring role and to juxtapose him with Scarlett Johansson is inspired in its exploitation of his deadpan, ironic screen persona established in films like Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993).

It's the opposite of an Event Movie for the fall season; instead, it's an old - fashioned star vehicle, fashioned for the particular screen persona of Clint Eastwood.

Over a career spanning thirty years Jim Carrey has presented two distinct screen personas to the world.

Mark Wahlberg channels his usual soft - spoken tough guy screen persona as Chris Farraday, a former master smuggler who has settled down into a law - abiding life as a working dad and loving husband to his gorgeous wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale).

But it was in the John Hughes - scripted, Harold Ramis - directed Vacation that Chase found perhaps his best screen persona — the lovable everyman, the doofus with a heart of gold, the guy whose heart is in the right place but who can't quite do anything right trying to get his family to the Wally World theme park.

Of course, Hill's Hal looks just like him, and his character isn't a million miles away from his usual on - screen persona either.

Dirty Harry provoked a critical uproar in 1971 for its «fascist» message about the power of one, as it also elevated Clint Eastwood to superstar status through his most enduring screen persona.

The role of Curtis in this film is a perfect fit for Shannon's intense and slightly unhinged screen persona.

He's also got great chemistry with all the on - screen personas too, lighting up the screen, especially when they're dulling it with less than inspired performances.

Grahame was known for her brash femme fatales in the days of black - and - white cinema, but her on - screen persona only told part of her story.

Up until this point, John Cusack had spent almost his entire cinematic career in teen comedies, from Class to The Sure Thing via cult classic Better Off Dead to the misfired Hot Pursuit, Cusack's unique and very human screen persona stole every show he was in - but by 1988, he'd become determined to move on into more serious and adult cinema.

As a rising star, adolescent division, Judy Garland «s transition to a more contemporary adult screen persona really began with this movie, made in 1942, just after Ziegfeld Girl, For Me and My Gal, the Hardy movies and those tuneful «let's put on a show» style films with Mickey Rooney had solidified her popularity.

These films display little concern with reinforcing screen personas, in fact, they actively work against typage.

This prescient sequence fragments and triples Bill Murray's image separating the «public» Bob who exploits his fading star to sell whisky for three million American dollars, the «private» Bob who aspires to «good roles» and Bill Murray whose ironic, subversive screen persona threatens to destabilise the illusion.

As The Telegraph's Robbie Collin pointed out in his recent piece on De Niro's comedies, Analyze This and Meet the Parents — the two films often seen as the beginning of the downward shift — really are better than you might recall, the actor gamely willing to mine the self - serious tropes of his on - screen persona for laughs.

«The first screen personas I ever loved were Henson creations, first on Sesame Street, and then on Fraggle Rock.

Los Angeles — Elizabeth Taylor, the violet - eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old - fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday.

(The role is tailor - made for Reeves» intensely neutral screen persona.)

He somehow manages to adapt the Sister James character to Amy Adams» unique screen persona; she's absolutely marvelous!

And Pickens» appearance at the end of the film indicates Peckinpah's penchant for intensifying his dramas by casting recognizable character actors and then playing off on their accumulated screen personae.

As an individual performance, it's startling; as an exercise in opening out McAvoy's amiable screen persona, it's far more successful than his ill - fitting tough - guy roles in «Trance» and «Welcome to the Punch» earlier this year.

It has been devised around the persona of US comedy box - office king Adam Sandler, maintaining his porcine, heavy - lidded screen persona, but subtracting the gags and reinventing him as a middleweight indie - arthouse dramedy player.

Anyone who has seen the trailer or poster for Youth in Revolt knows that the film's major appeal is the subversion of the Michael Cera screen persona.

«It was an absolute dream, synergistic moment of casting,» says Allison Williams of being offered, as her first big - screen role, the part of Rose Armitage, the female lead in Jordan Peele «s feature directorial debut Get Out — which allowed her to make fun of and then completely subvert her preexisting screen persona — as we sit down at the offices of The Hollywood Reporter to record an episode of the Awards Chatter» podcast.

Following in the footsteps of Peter Sellers, Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, Steve Carell challenges his benign screen persona to disquieting effect in Bennett Miller's true crime drama, Foxcatcher.

What is it about Annette Bening's singular screen persona that has drawn her to characters of a certain severity?

I worried that P. Diddy, the rapper formerly known as Puff Daddy, would stink up the movie, but he's convincing enough that you forget about his off screen persona.

It also seems like Jr. may be channelling a little bit of Adrien Brody in the role, which adds even more to his captivating and watchable screen persona.

He had much more screen persona and charisma in the recent X-Men 2.

Johnny Depp — who has the Thompson screen persona down to an absolute tee now — plays Paul Kemp, a freelance journalist who takes a job no one else wants in Puerto Rico, writing for a newspaper that's about to go out of business.

Rock's erratic, slack screen persona has fallen on fallow ground as of yet, unlike the calibrated exaggeration of the geniuses of yore.

The baggage of his prototypical screen persona actually adds that much more to the performance and the character, as it deepens the sense of how far gone Kelvin is emotionally, spiritually, completely.

It looks at first as though Hoffman is just aping Sandler's well - worn screen persona, but their writer / director Noah Baumbach has actually tried to position Sandler as heir apparent to the kind of «great artists» who came before him.

Ashwin, her camera unmoored from real world physical restraints, accordingly stages, shoots, and edits in creative but always coherent ways — all the better to capture Rajinikanth's uniquely charismatic screen persona, which completely shines through all the flashy techno - digital trappings.

Both actors are a delight: it's higher praise than some might think to declare this Dorff's finest hour, but it's nonetheless a watershed performance that reflects on his established screen persona while rumpling it with softer accents.

Jean Harlow may have been the first of the movie blonde bombshells, but her sharp, saucy screen persona was quite a ways removed from that of her sublime successor, Marilyn Monroe.

Garner, in particular, has found the right role to capitalize on her high - strung, hyper - driven screen persona; her excitement over being a mother would be overbearing if it weren't also so heartbreakingly sincere.

As «Jersey Boys» hits theaters, the battle between the director and his «make my day» screen persona butt heads once again

An astute, lively discussion of the director's subtle, ongoing project of revising and interrogating the classic Eastwood screen persona.

If the film plays with Washington's screen persona of moral fortitude, it does not destroy it.