Sentences with phrase «sympathetic character who»

Initially she was a sympathetic character who had landed her dream job and was very good at it.

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.

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.

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In an interview with Fortune, Chapman, who received fellow animators» support after going public about the ordeal, recalled her struggle «being the only woman in the room trying to explain my characters» point of view of the mother and daughter and why they're both sympathetic and they're both not sympathetic.

Macmillan manages to synthesise a consideration of the environmental and structural factors in the years before 1914 with a sympathetic and engaging examination of the particular motivations and characters of the men who took Europe to war in 1914.

I'm inspired by Emily's ability to create characters who are both flawed and sympathetic.

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.

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.

There's something powerful in that, in the simple fact that The Intern is so sympathetic to its older character - so resolutely on the side of a person who might, in other contexts, be dismissed or ignored or, as is so often the case, invisible.

Lots of great characters, such as cheating wife Quinn who actually plays a sympathetic and vulnerable part, the gutsy, newly voluptuous matriarch played by dishy Jane Fonda, and the manboy next door whom eldest sister Wendy has to forgive herself for ditching years ago after their car accident left him brain - damaged.

Ironically, Black Panther is most successful in its treatment of the main villain, Erik «Killmonger» Stevens, played by Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station and Creed), a character who ends up being more sympathetic in his cause than the titular hero.

Robbie, who does some of her own skating, finds a way to make the foul - mouthed Harding sympathetic, giving nuance to a character that combines ambition and insecurity.

His Darwin is a sympathetic character, who is a loving father as well as a serious and committed scientist.

Tasked with linking the two narrative strands, Mara's character is a sympathetic daddy's girl who's not allowed to play with her tougher male colleagues, but the only one with any awareness of what could be around the corner.

Curmudgeonly Tony is accessible and somewhat sympathetic thanks to the stellar work of Mr. Broadbent, who always seems to find the real person within his characters.

The best of those characters is undoubtedly the horny motel purveyor and artist played wonderfully by Larry Fessenden who is brilliantly creepy yet still sympathetic.

The not - entirely - sympathetic central character aside, the movie also deserves recognition for its unexpectedly intimate focus on Vinny's close - knit Rhode Island brood (whose outrageousness Younger claims to have toned down for the movie), from his devout Catholic mother Louise (Katey Sagal) who can't bear to watch his fights to his fiancé - berating sister.

The standout, however, is Hurt, who gives an almost unbelievably courageous performance as the movie's least sympathetic character...

The depths to which he sinks are extraordinary, yet Cage — in a welcome return to the bug - eyed insanity of his mid -»90s work — keeps the character sympathetic, while Herzog directs with all the crazed energy of a man who once actually ate his own shoe.

The standout, however, is Hurt, who gives an almost unbelievably courageous performance as the movie's least sympathetic character... Full Review

Some commentators feel the character's apparent redemptive arch seems sympathetic towards someone who acknowledges torturing a black man and often dances around the N - word.

Defiant & gutsy, ultimately moving but never completely sympathetic, she has no problem in holding your attention and neither does winner - of - ever - award - going - this - year Allison Janney who completely inhabits mother - of - Tonya LaVona to the point where you can't even remember that this is the woman who has brought to life countless other strong female characters over the past twenty years.

First - time screenwriter Geoff LaTulippe gives us characters who are flesh - and - blood, decent, sympathetic people.

The heart of the film is the sympathetic characterization by Jordan, who makes Oscar a decent, sincere character, trying to do the right thing having gotten so much wrong in the past (the film's only real flashback is to him in prison being given the tough love treatment by his mother).

Similarly, the lead performers who inhabit the characters in their somewhat hermetically sealed environs generally deliver competent performances: In particular Cooke, looking somewhat like a hybrid of Christina Ricci and Chloe Grace Moretz concocted in a Tim Burton lab experiment, fares well shifting gears effectively between the vulnerable, victimized Jane and the menacing, malevolent Evey; Richards gives her otherwise = underdeveloped role real pop, as smartly sex - kittenish as they come; and Harris utterly dominates the proceedings with his intuitive ability to shift Coupland from sympathetic to suspicion on a dime.

She plays a smart character who you really feel sympathetic towards, considering she's not in this situation because she's stupid, but because she's there out of desperation.

Palin's role, on the other hand, is perhaps the most amusing of the bunch, embodying a character who is clearly sympathetic in his timidness and sympathetic toward animals (and caretaker of the aquarium that houses not only an important plot device, but also a fish named Wanda), yet is tasked by Georges to rub out the only witness against him (an elderly woman)-- resulting in the repeated, humorously horrifying, accidental murders of her numerous terriers.

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.

Yet in some ways he's the most sympathetic character in the movie, a man of genuine faith struggling to understand how and why he should acquiesce to what he's been taught is an unnatural and dangerous desire on the part of a woman who really loves him, just not like that.

There are some solid performances, notably from Rosamund Pike, who gives a subtly sympathetic performance as Miriam, Wife Number Three; while Paul Giamatti is wholly believable as Barney, who sheds the television producer cliché as the movie progresses and becomes a fully three dimensional, likeably - flawed character, although I did feel that some of the later, present day scenes could have done with some judicious editing.

For some reason, Deadpool, who has never really cared about anybody but his girlfriend (Morena Baccarin), takes a sympathetic interest in the young man, despite the kid's being a pretty nasty character.

According to Deadline, Danish actor Nikolaj Coster - Waldau, who plays Jamie Lannister, a character who remains sympathetic despite fucking his sister and throwing a child out of a tall window in THE FIRST EPISODE, has signed on to support Tom Cruise in Universal «s sci - fi actioner «Oblivion.»

The one standout is Holt McCallany, who provides complex dimensions to his stock character of a sympathetic detective who finally gives a desperate Leah the advice she needs to turn the tables on her tormentor.

Vikander, who made such an impression as an artificial intelligence robot learning how to be human in Ex Machina (2014), makes for a sympathetic heroine, but there isn't much depth to Lara, and she is denied the fierce mystery and campy appeal that Jolie brought to the character back in the early 2000s.

It is populated with characters who seem sympathetic in their motives but unsympathetic in their actions, who seem unworthy of sympathy in any way, or whose qualities and motives are only revealed in their final moments, but McDonagh has limitless compassion for them — not in spite of their flaws but because of them.

Phillips, who also wrote and directed, creates some fascinating if unsettling character dynamics driven by Shonzi, who's both off - putting and sympathetic.

An adaptation of R.J. Palacio's novel, director Stephen Chbosky, Steven Conrad, and Jack Thorne's screenplay does such a sympathetic job of communicating the story of a 10 - year - old boy, who was born with a genetic disorder that resulted in facial differences, that we aren't really considering the lives of the other characters on screen.

The first is Hawke, who finds a way to make an unsympathetic character sympathetic.

Trained in the theater, with a versatility and discipline more common among British performers than Americans, he was a character actor who could take on any role, large or small, loathsome or sympathetic.

With a running time extending two hours, one wonders if some of the minor supporting characters couldn't have been excised completely, particularly a romantic subplot involving Lucien and Christa Theret as a provincial singer who actually has talent (instead, a better developed Astrid Whettnall as a sympathetic mistress could have been a better use of screen time).

Jane comes to discover a sympathetic soul in the down to earth, character - breaking stable boy Martin (Bret McKenzie), who enjoys easy listening and knows exactly how to help a horse give birth.

But by that point, the film has earned its laughs by making the audience care about characters who begin the film as broad comic types, but end it as sympathetic, fully formed, multidimensional human beings.

Then again, he's not particularly kind to his New York characters, either — even Kline, who finds lovely grace notes in a sympathetic character, feels shunted aside in the back half of the movie.

The one instance of a sympathetic character within the bloodshed is Benjamin (Basil Wallace), who helps former child soldiers recover, but even he becomes a victim of the violence.

The sympathetic side is in treating its characters as people who want to go back to their ordinary lives, realize that they need help, and want to protect the people they love from the encroaching reality that an ordinary life seems impossible, because help seems unlikely to ever come to them.

The theory, by the way, is contradicted by at least three other characters, who either have no knowledge of Keller's wrongdoing or, when confronted by the extremity of it, turn their back on it (Even in their limited roles, all of them, especially Franklin and Nancy, are more sympathetic and complex than Keller).

He also gives us a sympathetic Korean character, Sook (Diana Bang), a ranking member of Kim's inner circle who sees him for the master manipulator he is and hopes for imminent change.

Kaufman's script must walk a tricky tightrope, as his main character is more than a bit of a cad who must be seen as pitiable if he is not entirely sympathetic.

Although the ending is rushed and a bit too convenient to be fully satisfying, I would recommend The Gracekeepers to adult readers and mature teens who enjoy reading fantasies with unusual, richly built settings and unique sympathetic characters.

Even Simone, who was introduced as dangerous, became a very sympathetic character once we learned her backstory.