Sentences with phrase «subvert audiences expectations»

Besson manages to subvert audiences expectations at a few points by not delivering on big showdowns and staying true to his protagonist's abilities and motives.

Besson even manages to subvert audiences expectations at a few points by not delivering on big showdowns and staying true to his protagonists abilities and motives.

One of the joys of Asante's filmmaking is how she subverts audience expectations to make observations on politics, race and gender: As Sophie Mayer observes in her review for Sight & Sound, «in a clever twist on the Bechdel test, Asante shows that it is through talking about marriage and men that the female protagonists of costume drama are able to articulate a political philosophy.»

He's got a story that playfully subverts audience expectation, and he sure seems to love his over-the-top dramatic reveals of Cale's various victims.

Compared to other college comedies that typically feature a slacker, goof - off male protagonist, Falcone and McCarthy's story subverts audience expectation.

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It's all actually really good way to build and then either subvert or satisfy audience expectations, all while being extremely memorable.

McDonagh is a master at introducing characters and automatically telling the audience who they are, but at the same time manipulating their actions in realistic manner that subverts our expectations.

However, while the film does utilise — and subvert — the tropes of a standard thriller, it so constantly sidesteps convention and audience expectation that any formal generic classification proves woefully inadequate.

I love the conversation around how he wanted to subvert the audience's expectation that Pinkett, given her gender and race, would be the first to die.

The opening scene of My All American just might be an impressive act of subverting the audience's expectations.

The points covered are easy, surface ones: he marched to his own drummer; he took pleasure in subverting audiences» expectations and wishes and in generally pissing them off; he immersed himself so deeply into his characters that those closest to him often did not know where the act ended and the real Andy began — that is, if it ever did.

Audience expectations, nonetheless, will be continuously subverted as a series of shocking scenes constitute the remainder Laila and Aaron's hopeless odyssey.

«We have this plan to subvert them in the trailers and make them part of a campaign and build up the expectation and just pull the rug out from the audience.

The crying, like the nudity, is funny in itself — not because the audience is insensitive to Peter's suffering but because his baby - bird vulnerability so thoroughly subverts our expectations of how a male romantic lead should behave.