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«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.

D'Onfrio's Wilson Fisk is extraordinary, and he's actually the most sympathetic character on the show... which is kind of a problem.

Not exact matches

The main characters remain sympathetic even while being parodied, and despite working on behalf of a totalitarian regime.

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.

As the multiple narrative strands move from character to character — a sympathetic insurance assessor (John Ortiz), a curmudgeonly pack rat (Bruce Dern), a widow (Burstyn) picking through the remnants after a house fire — the would - be medley quickly devolves into a series of actorly monologues on a thesis.

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).

While Elephant, on one hand, focused on the time and space factors that converge unrelated people to those tragic incidents, Uwe Boll is more concerned about the characters - and this is a sympathetic and surprisingly moving drama that relies on decent performances.

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.

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.

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.

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.

However, with so much else going on and so many other characters sharing the screen, Thanos still fails to be a fully developed and sympathetic antagonist.

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's a fascinating ensemble, but if there's an MVP, it's Goggins, whose character turns out to be much more and much less than one might imagine on first viewing, straddling a fine line between clever and idiotic, villainous and 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 three leads are all superb, with Sushant Singh Rajput managing to make a potentially difficult character, with all his indecision and passivity, sympathetic: the movie hinges on the audience wanting Raghu to eventually grow up and find true love.

After the exposition ends and the double - crossing begins, however, the film quickly loses steam, degenerating into a drearily familiar thriller, long on implausible plot twists and short on sympathetic characters or credible dialogue.

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.

Other characters, also including Kirsten Dunst as the kid's mother and Adam Driver as a sympathetic NSA agent, are frustratingly underwritten, especially given the acting calibre on display.

The material here more closely resembles his efforts on «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World» than «Project X,» at least in the sense that he's lending a sensitive or sympathetic edge to all of the characters» shenanigans, and it proves that he's got a voice as a writer that articulates honestly the point of view of young characters in a pop - culture - saturated society.

As a matter of fact the Cable Guy is a wholly sympathetic character and I actually was on the rooting side of the dangerous one.

Their characters aren't exactly sympathetic, as their reckless actions make them the unwitting catalysts for the Rage virus continuation (blame it on the lack of parental authority).

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.

Sitting on the sidelines: Paul Newman's 1968 film about a small - town schoolteacher's sexual awakening dared to make its lesbian character sympathetic

The park's tycoon master, a more sympathetic character than in Michael Crichton's bestselling novel, watches on as his technical marvels of childlike wonder begin tearing his audience to shreds.

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.

Her Amy is by far the film's most grounded character and is a sympathetic figure for the audience to latch on to.

This in - name - only travesty also changes the sympathetic character into a horrific killing machine, killing nearly everyone he can get his filth - constructed hands on in the most grisly of ways.

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.»

Jenkins has a somewhat tougher time of it, since his character is prone to extreme shifts in mood that turn on a dime, but for what he's working with, Jenkins remains a sympathetic presence.

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.

We may watch expecting to laugh and feel superior, but the prismatic approach, with characters speaking to us to explain their perspectives (or try to put the blame on each other) is surprisingly sympathetic, grounded, and insightful.

Theater director David Leveaux maintains a firm grip on pacing, scene - setting and character - development, keeping the protagonists sympathetic, while raising the stakes.

For a movie that hinges on a soulless man developing feelings, Criminal is noticeably lacking any of its own, what with its roster of repellent characters and the chilly approach taken by director Ariel Vroman (whose previous feature, The Iceman, was similarly, uh, frosty) and scripters Douglas Cook and David Weisberg — note, as but one example, that the death of a highly sympathetic character (and played by a highly billed performer) is treated as an aside, completely ignored by the person's friends and colleagues and, by extension, the filmmakers themselves.

Filmmaker Ned Benson's decision to employ as deliberate a pace as one could possibly envision proves an effective match for his introspective screenplay, with the laser - like focus on the characters ensuring that Eleanor (and, to a lesser degree, Conor) becomes an intensely sympathetic figure over the course of the movie's 190 minutes.

It's a great way to make the characters more sympathetic too; it puts characters and viewers at the same point on the learning curve.

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.

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.

As such, Aniston's character is particularly sympathetic, as we actually do hope for a happy resolution for her, which is the sole fuel that the engine called the plot runs on.

Wisely, it places as much focus on a smart gender twist and sympathetic concerns about how the characters will progress.

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).

The other comedy on my list has a compassion for humanity and a batch of sympathetic characters.

Diane was not a sympathetic character and evidently not a good actress, but hanging on Jack's coat tails.

With keen insight and deft characterization, Robbins investigates the pressures of deprivation and cruelty on the most common of human relationships — the love between a father and son and the love between a man and a woman — in a most uncommon circumstance... His attention to historical detail and the sympathetic treatment of his captivating characters create an absorbing novel that will appeal to a variety of readers.

[T] he plot development is spot - on, the characters sympathetic and well drawn (even the villainess), and the denouement richly satisfying.»

I feel his tragic story (which was only really alluded to through the game's scattered documents) could've been elaborated on to make him a more sympathetic, relatable character instead of the one - demential cartoon - like villain he became.

I have seen multiple arguments of which version of the character is the best, based on design, personality or boss fight, and while I can understand that some people tend to lean towards the more menacing, evil, badass representation, I personally adore how for once Ganon was given a sympathetic side in Wind Waker.