A
sympathetic character is someone in a story who you feel sorry for or can relate to because they are facing challenges or have good qualities.
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Yet this snapshot into one day and night in an investment bank is too clean and devoid
of sympathetic characters to upset anyone too much.
The latter is especially impressive, as he uses his bulky fitness to create a
truly sympathetic character, brimming with insecurity yet physically intimidating with every swing and stretch.
It is surprisingly slow and contained, employing a
few sympathetic characters and locations to examine the small details of the character's lives, leading to one of the director's best efforts.
Also, audiences become emotionally invested in
sympathetic characters because they have traits we can identify with — if readers can see themselves in characters, they're more believable.
Wiseau is not nearly
as sympathetic a character as Ed Wood, the 1950s B - grade filmmaker who is the subject of the 1994 film Ed Wood, but The Disaster Artist does share some of that film's affection for its respective delusional misfit filmmaker.
In the first ten scenes John Merrick is an irresistibly
sympathetic character who suffers «humiliations in order to survive» yet believes in happiness and is capable of compassion for other victims as well as of wit in the face of brutality.
«I think it's difficult in this country because as an audience we're less used to seeing our political figures as
sympathetic characters on screen.
She's little more than a spoilt brat who treats everyone around her with contempt, even her loving father, Considine, the only
remotely sympathetic character in the film.
[Futurama has] eccentric yet
oddly sympathetic characters, scores of clever pop - culture homages, and a unique visual aesthetic that isn't afraid to experiment with a variety of styles both vintage and modern.
Again and again, Molly Antopol's
deeply sympathetic characters struggle for footing in an uncertain world, hounded by forces beyond their control.
We want to
see sympathetic characters find within themselves the means to carry on, to grow as people, to look in the mirror and see somebody new, rather than a hero born unchangeably good, or a villain unalterably wicked.
Because Vivian is such a powerful and
increasingly sympathetic character, I created three outfit sets revolving around independent career women who, like Vivian, are tough enough to carve out their own space in the world even when they feel as if they are all alone.
We get junk like Thomas being cast as the villain even though he's the most
sympathetic character onscreen, which happens in spite of the fact that he's drawn as a caricature of an overstressed, overambitious urbanite unable to cope with the countryside he has come to visit.
Considering how his most
potentially sympathetic character handled her real estate interests, we are forced to the understanding that she's a flake prone to withdrawing from responsibility.
When a rapist (Tony Leung) is the
second-most sympathetic character in a story about greed, duplicity and adultery among four people, it needs a more forgiving audience than me.
The film's most memorable moments belong to Streep's sometimes
awkwardly sympathetic character as she enters yet another boardroom populated by men or, later in the story, when she emerges from the Supreme Court to find a sea of upturned faces of young women there to cheer her on.
Unusually for a drama about suffocating social and emotional repression, Disobedience lavishes attention on religious concerns; it paints Dovid as a
largely sympathetic character, a man in a spiritual crisis.
«Dunkirk» --- It took me a while to get past Christopher Nolan's deliberate avoidance of standard exposition devices and
overtly sympathetic character traits in his visually sweeping, 70 mm.
But the material gives him precious little to work with when things get rough, and as he's reduced to fluttering his eyelashes coyly for the hundredth time — particularly in Lili's darkest hours — this
inherently sympathetic character is rendered faintly ridiculous.
His handsome films are celebrations of introspection and stylistic remove and his best work defined not by heroes and villains but complex, flawed,
achingly sympathetic characters.
For fully half the picture's brief 95 minutes, Five Aces presents surprisingly realistic and
sympathetic characters engaging in well - written and performed conversations.
I haven't always been enamored of Hugh Grant's films, or of Drew Barrymore's for that matter, but they both seem to excel at
playing sympathetic characters desperately looking for love and success, In Music and Lyrics, both of them ingratiate themselves sufficiently that we like them in their roles.
All four movies start off as if they intend to be just as scary as the novel but then wind up simplifying the issues, either by letting a
doomed sympathetic character survive (as in Cruel Intentions) or by sentimentalizing the motives or the fates of the more evil characters (as in the other three movies).
It features a few briefly sketched but
still sympathetic characters who we feel a tinge of grief when they're snuffed, but the film's obvious and frivolous attempts to turn the original's psychological terror into a series of well - executed but hollow set pieces for mass consumption is unfortunate.
Weisz's Lipstadt is a spiky, aggressive, not
entirely sympathetic character faced with a wall of upper - crust, middle - aged British men in suits telling her how to fight her battles.
Island also lacks
strong sympathetic characters, which coupled with uneven performances and a coincidence - filled course of events, makes for a film which reaches for spectacle and merely hits «fairly engaging.»