Sentences with phrase «sympathetic feelings for the characters»

Dickens» memorable characters shine through Timson's impeccable performance, certain to evoke laughter and sympathetic feelings for the characters.

Not exact matches

[they] allow me to observe and control fictional characters, and when I am at the helm, I try to make these characters behave not as how I would, but how I feel they would want to — a strange sympathetic process for which there is, as of now, no good name.»

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).

This is the first male character that is not completely evil and the viewer is given reasons to feel sorry for this sympathetic and flawed person.

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.

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.

So, in the end, the character of Caitlin seemed to me a literary tool to move the story forward by adding another level of discovery - but as a sympathetic character, a love interest for our hero, or one to feel vested in... no.