Sentences with phrase «sympathetic protagonist»

Prejudice, fear and miscommunication threaten the tentative friendship of Tyler and Mari, but this pair of sympathetic protagonists transcend those challenges and support each other through the challenges of personal loss and adolescence.

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

neediness, centered on a more sympathetic protagonist.

Warwick Davis, in the title role, is his most sympathetic protagonist.

Others create sympathetic protagonists with mental illnesses or physical handicaps.

His turn is not one of mere impersonation; Franco's Tommy is a driven person with clear and relatable motivations, making him a sympathetic protagonist to follow through this narrative.

It's fairly disappointing, too, given that Knock Knock does open with a certain degree of potential, with Reeves» typically affable turn as the sympathetic protagonist certainly playing an integral role in initially capturing the viewer's interest.

In that sense, sympathetic protagonists are slightly in want.

While the spareness and seriousness of the film are to be admired, and Gibson makes for a sympathetic protagonist, there is little here that we have not seen before (even if it may have been set after), and even less that rivets the attention.

This week, The Evil Within received its third and final DLC, dubbed The Executioner because it swaps out a sympathetic protagonist...

It's a continuation of the story that began in the 1984 movie The Karate Kid, but flipping the script to make Johnny Lawrence — the wonderfully douchey villain played by William Zabka — into the sympathetic protagonist and turning the film's crane - kicking hero Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) into a big jerk.

Depression is not an easy thing to depict on screen, but Affleck's performance and Lonergan's strong script make Lee a sympathetic protagonist.

At the center of every Rockstar experience is a sympathetic protagonist whose bad deeds can't stop the audience from rooting for them, but prior to Grand Theft Auto V, these leading characters lacked a certain level of complexity.

The young actors who play Paxton's sons in the flashback portions of the film deserve much of the praise, with Matt O'Leary, in particular, being a sympathetic protagonist as young Fenton, a young boy torn between his love for his father and the moral duty to stop his murderous ambitions.

That the cartoon manages to both viciously lampoon Hitler (whose portrayal here complicated my childhood perception of him as a demonic historical bogeyman) and also make him something of a sympathetic protagonist is a tribute to the oft - unsung talents of director Bob Clampett, whose every hand - drawn frame is a virtuoso, stand - alone grotesque.

An endearing story with a sympathetic protagonist and an unlikely narrator, Philomena's subtheme concerns the ways and means of spirituality.

Storm Reid's Meg Murry is a sympathetic protagonist.

In the sixth book featuring Donna Leon's ever - charming and sympathetic protagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has had five patients unexpectedly die and decides to leave her convent.

At the center of every Rockstar experience is a sympathetic protagonist whose bad deeds can't stop the audience from rooting for them, but prior to Grand Theft Auto V, these leading characters lacked a certain level of complexity.