Sentences with phrase «sympathetic characters because»

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Steve Carell was a perfect casting option, not only because he could play to all sides of Michael's neediness, pettiness and genuineness, but also because he shaped the character to be more sympathetic than offensive.

«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.

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.

Far from the stilted caricatures of the Johns Wayne and Ford, these days Native Americans are more likely to be represented on screen as sympathetic characters, which is refreshing, because after decades of dehumanization at the hands of Hollywood, they finally have gotten a chance to shine by occasionally telling stories that feature them if not as heroes, at least as human.

It's good that The Dude is a sympathetic character, because his friend is **** annoying, honestly.

Sometimes it's difficult to tell if we're supposed to enjoy the characters company because they're emotionally disfigured buffoons or sympathetic damaged souls.

David Keith is a good actor, but his role here as a flaming gay Hollywoodite is abysmally offensive, although Keith actually makes the character surprisingly sympathetic despite the stereotypes (maybe because we just feel sorry for David Keith himself).

What separates «Ex Machina» from all those other movies about the potential dangers of sentient A.I., however, is the addition of Gleeson's character to the equation, because it uses Caleb's humanity / moral compass against the audience to make you sympathetic towards Ava even though virtually every film about robots has taught us not to trust them.

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.

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.

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.

It's been noted that none of the characters from this movie are that sympathetic, mostly because they seem to occupy the roles of noir stereotypes; yet at least for me, this didn't make their story any less intriguing.

Sean Penn (Milk) upset sentimental favorite Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) in the Lead Actor category, while Kate Winslet (The Reader) won for Lead Actress because she was the only Brit nominated and since she did such a great job of turning a Nazi pedophile into a sexy and sympathetic character.

At times, he genuinely seems sympathetic, mainly because we spend more time with him than most other characters in the film.

I have to expand my list of unsympathetic characters past Stanton because I agree with terrio that Mrs. Henley was not sympathetic at all.