Sentences with phrase «sympathetic characters in»

Dave King continues to explore historical fiction pitfalls with this post for Writer Unboxed: sympathetic characters in unsympathetic worlds.

Haggis wants to implicate us as well as many of his more sympathetic characters in the round - robin of prejudice, so he plays tricks with our expectations, making us retroactively aware of our own prejudices — not unlike the surprise endings of O. Henry.

After that, the most sympathetic characters in the movie are the monsters.

Despite being the least sympathetic character in MLS, a few Timbers faithful tired of a fairly dull grind it out style match actually cheer Johnson for old times sake.

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.

The same year, he endeared himself as a markedly more sympathetic character in Truly, Madly, Deeply.

The most fascinating aspect of New York Confidential is that there isn't a sympathetic character in the bunch; even Anne Bancroft as Lupo's maladjusted daughter is a bit on the obnoxious side.

His steely stare is tempered by his innate and constant desire to do good, and his lonely, well meaning detective is by far the most sympathetic character in the film, despite going through the least emotional and psychological turmoil.

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.

«Random Hearts» is the only film I can recall where a Republican politician was treated as a sympathetic character in a Hollywood film.

There is not a sympathetic character in Landline, a comic drama about the various dysfunctions of a dysfunctional family.

Reinvent the franchise and make Kratos the most sympathetic character in God Of War series.

There are, at least, the Rorschach paintings and the sympathetic character in Basquiat.

Not exact matches

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 sympathetiIn 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 sympathetiin 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.

In Queen Elinor we find a sympathetic, admirable, and flawed character whose love for her daughter is unyielding, though the two often fail to communicate.

What unites a present self to other selves is «the sympathetic character of imaginative realization» according to which «self and other self are scrambled together in motivation» (MVG 148 - 150).

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.

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 brutalitIn 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 brutalitin order to survive» yet believes in happiness and is capable of compassion for other victims as well as of wit in the face of brutalitin happiness and is capable of compassion for other victims as well as of wit in the face of brutalitin the face of brutality.

The Pride of St. Louis, starring my late uncle, Dan Dailey, as Dizzy Dean, could be viewed as a «soupy biography» or, in a better light, as a sympathetic portrait of a true American character.

«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.

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.

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.

In those shows, she evolved from a bitchy cheerleader into one of the most sympathetic and well - rounded characters in the casIn those shows, she evolved from a bitchy cheerleader into one of the most sympathetic and well - rounded characters in the casin the cast.

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.

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.

The initial emphasis on Jack's decidedly mundane endeavors - ie he eats dinner with a priest, he meets with the aforementioned client, etc, etc - proves instrumental in transforming the character into a surprisingly compelling and sympathetic figure, which inevitably does heighten the suspense once the tense and thoroughly engrossing third act rolls around (ie the viewer can't help but actively root for Jack's success).

The conflict between him and T'Challa is a slow build and the reveal of the reason why makes him a sympathetic and hateful character that in the you want to see him go down a different path.

Busey is compelling in his role and builds Tom's character with skill to show him as both a dangerous and sympathetic psychopath.

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.

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.

But in a way, it's a nice companion piece to The Americans, in that the main characters are not your traditionally sympathetic protagonists.

If making a claim for the «majorness» of Let the Sunshine In, we might point to its philosophical pedigree, or its class - consciousness — Fabrice drips poison into Isabelle's ear to undermine her belief in a possible future with Blain's working - class character, Sylvain, and, in perhaps the least sympathetic moment of a character given many of them, Isabelle carries this load of venom home to pass along to her lover rather than suffering through its effects herselIn, we might point to its philosophical pedigree, or its class - consciousness — Fabrice drips poison into Isabelle's ear to undermine her belief in a possible future with Blain's working - class character, Sylvain, and, in perhaps the least sympathetic moment of a character given many of them, Isabelle carries this load of venom home to pass along to her lover rather than suffering through its effects herselin a possible future with Blain's working - class character, Sylvain, and, in perhaps the least sympathetic moment of a character given many of them, Isabelle carries this load of venom home to pass along to her lover rather than suffering through its effects herselin perhaps the least sympathetic moment of a character given many of them, Isabelle carries this load of venom home to pass along to her lover rather than suffering through its effects herself.

Stars the immensely sympathetic newcomer Nichole Bloom in a compelling, cross-cultural, character - driven drama.

It casts McCandless in a saintly light - likely a pretty big stretch - but necessarily makes him a sympathetic character and strongly underscores the powerful message we're meant to take from the movie.

None of the characters are in any way sympathetic or interesting.

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.

I hope that Prime 4 delves into Sylux's character, in a non-intrusive and well - done manner, perhaps even a sympathetic portrayal of Sylux's origins that at the very least shows Sylux is not completely evil.

But while director Oliver Hirschbiegel («DasExperiment») very effectively takes youdeep inside Nazi Germany's crumbling heart and brings many infamous momentsacutely to life, his film doesn't offer much in the way of new insight.The script is more of a textbook play - by - play than an examination of impulsesand psyches, and while the Hirschbiegel and his cast add those dimensionsthrough their fine work, it seems the only way he could invest the audiencein these events was by seeking out a sympathetic minor character — inthe person of Hitler's young secretary, Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)-- and beef up her significance.

Even science fiction intrudes in the ruminations of a computer in a sympathetic cop's patrol car; these musings stand in, perhaps, for the missing Gorin character, but disrupt the film's tone.

Thankfully, with the warm reception Moonrise Kingdom has received, audiences are continuing to look past the take - it - or - leave - it tweeness of his patented style to appreciate just how gifted he is in creating flawed, relatable, and sympathetic characters.

While the fate of Killmonger in Black Panther has thematic resonance and provides the character with a sympathetic arc, Klaue's death was another example of Marvel killing off villains they're done with at the moment.

In the hands of Hangover trilogy director Phillips, War Dogs annoys in a variety of ways: its halfhearted critique and sympathetic embrace of machismo and whatever - it - takes business savvy (the women in the story, uniformly P.Y.T.s, serve as sex objects and the buzzkill voice of morality), wall - to - wall use of overplayed source music (a Warner Bros. hallmark these days), and frequently sitcomedic joke constructions (Albania is «a beautiful place,» Cooper's character promises; cut to blue - grey blightIn the hands of Hangover trilogy director Phillips, War Dogs annoys in a variety of ways: its halfhearted critique and sympathetic embrace of machismo and whatever - it - takes business savvy (the women in the story, uniformly P.Y.T.s, serve as sex objects and the buzzkill voice of morality), wall - to - wall use of overplayed source music (a Warner Bros. hallmark these days), and frequently sitcomedic joke constructions (Albania is «a beautiful place,» Cooper's character promises; cut to blue - grey blightin a variety of ways: its halfhearted critique and sympathetic embrace of machismo and whatever - it - takes business savvy (the women in the story, uniformly P.Y.T.s, serve as sex objects and the buzzkill voice of morality), wall - to - wall use of overplayed source music (a Warner Bros. hallmark these days), and frequently sitcomedic joke constructions (Albania is «a beautiful place,» Cooper's character promises; cut to blue - grey blightin the story, uniformly P.Y.T.s, serve as sex objects and the buzzkill voice of morality), wall - to - wall use of overplayed source music (a Warner Bros. hallmark these days), and frequently sitcomedic joke constructions (Albania is «a beautiful place,» Cooper's character promises; cut to blue - grey blight).

«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.

The cold aloofness Hough brings doesn't seem to be entirely her fault, but it nevertheless enhances a lack of character identity, as it's unclear if Ariel is supposed to be lost and sympathetic, or a contemptible, spoiled slut whose boots were made for comin» off (she's been distraught and promiscuous ever since her brother died in that first - reel accident).

There are some telling moments when they discuss material that was excised from the final cut, such as scenes that might have made other characters in the film more sympathetic, but unfortunately none of this footage has been preserved on this disc.

It feels like Affleck is bending the morality of the picture to his needs and to paint Joe in a sympathetic light rather than embrace the darkness of the character's deeds.

So what happens is, «Broken English» establishes a sympathetic character, gets Parker Posey to make her real, and then grinds her in the gears of a plot we can not believe.

What we love in Gordon Green is his sympathetic depiction of the confusion, sexual or otherwise, of characters moored in the ambiguous confines of a small town in mid-America.

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.

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.