Sentences with phrase «together by characters»

The three largely independent stories are tied together by the characters» relationship with dogs and involvement in a climactic car crash — though the idea is similar to his later film Babel or Paul Haggis» Crash, Amores Perros is much more subtle and memorable.

It's a series of short films tied together by the characters who thread through the chapters, played by different actors in different incarnations....

This is a movie where a bunch of action I don't care about is held together by characters I really don't like.

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The character of Muhammad, which is described in the Koran, fits fully together with his historical character: By the Koran Muhammad declared war and hate against Jews and Christians and he indeed conducted war against Jews and Christian.

It is an experience of living together, in community and in conflict, within boundaries set by our moral and philosophical commitments but also under conditions determined by our vices and virtues, our character, our circumstances, and the habits of our variegated culture.

In his analysis, he discriminates three factors or aspects of the developing process, all of which, acting together, determine the process so that it exhibits a novelty or a character not accounted for by data and principles which were present at the beginning of the process.

One is unique and particular, shaped by the character of the Christian traditions that are coming together.

From clueless bosses to wacky neighbors, One Day at a Time hits refresh on your usual sitcom character tropes by bringing a distinctive familiarity as the cast uses their synergy to deliver their scripts and convince audiences that they do in fact care about one another and the journey they're all on together.

Together, these two effects mean that the social space created by the practice of the worship of God in Jesus name is moral and even political in character.

If we discard this definition of a people, and, assuming another, say that a people is an assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of their love, then, in order to discover the character of any people, we have only to observe what they love... it will be a superior people in proportion as it is bound together by higher interests, inferior in proportion as it is bound together by lower.

Local character, by contrast, refers to the distinctive values, preferred style of behavior, and mood that together identify a contemporary group's ethos.

Single Cask Single Malt is a particularly premium class of Single Malt in which each bottle comes from an individual ageing cask, showing all its own distinct character, instead of being created by blending together the contents of various casks to provide uniformity of colour and taste.

Together, the innovative brands have collaborated on a series of one - of - a-kind prints influenced by tokidoki's larger - than - life designs and characters.

Like - minded brewers such as Victory and Southern Tier can preserve our character, culture and products by banding together,» said Bill Covaleski, Founder and Brewmaster of Victory Brewing Company.

Vallone said he has worked with Community Board 1 and numerous Astoria civic groups to put together a rezoning plan that would ensure that the neighborhood's character was not changed by new development.

«Several times we observed prolonged interactions that took on a game - like back - and - forth character, which is reminiscent of how preverbal toddlers interact by way of imitating other's play actions» says Dr. Gabriela - Alina Sauciuc, who conducted the study together with Persson.

Taken together, these findings explain why visual acuity is commonly measured with dark characters on light backgrounds and why visual resolution is lower for lights, as already noted by Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei when judging the size of light objects in paintings and the dark sky.

Together with Christian Theobalt, leader of the research group «Graphics, Vision & Video» at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, they could solve another problem: with their method, they can display people in full even if they had been partly obscured by other characters in a movie scene.

Dear Schmidt, I know that you're a fictional character pieced together by the writers of New Girl, and I know that I'm married and all, but we could have really awesome babies together.

* Galentine's Day: coined by Amy Poehler's Parks and Rec character Leslie Knope, It's the perfect chance to get your best gals together and CELEBRATE.

«If we use too many existing character traits put together by a machine or an organization to measure each other by, we can miss the mark.»

When looking at characters that have been fictionally coupled together, Jack and Vera Duckworth of Coronation Street fame were found to be the most compatible with each other, followed by Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

M * A * S * H is a 1972 — 1983 American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH, which, in turn, was based on the Oh, I really love mash - up games like this where characters from two different worlds are put together!

That's probably not the reaction director Julian Rosefeldt hopes will be stirred by this rigorous series of monologues, stitched together from more than 50 artistic and political manifestos and performed by Blanchett as 13 characters.

«The Tall T» is an entertaining western that builds slowly in setting up a tense confrontation, replete with casual brutality, between three characters brought together by their mutual avarice.

Part gentle comedy, part perceptive, Cassavetian blue - collar character study, it's also tellingly poignant despite it's shaggy - dog style structure fair riveted together by Buscemi's compelling central performance.

For all the moments in which it comes together, whether visually or narratively, it's marred by a poor script, derivative aesthetics and a lack of character or soul.

It's a high - concept premise that's initially employed to impressively engrossing effect by filmmakers Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard, as the directors deliver a strong opening stretch detailing Liam's near - silent attempts to piece together what's happened to him and why nearby people keep dropping dead — with Klattenhoff's stirring performance as the befuddled central character certainly perpetuating the intriguing atmosphere.

A prolific filmmaker who is more concerned with the drive of her characters rather than the plot that weaves them together, she has been dubbed by one critic as one of the only current French directors who «has been able to reconcile the lyricism of French cinema with the impulse to capture the often harsh face of contemporary France.

... But the cuckoo is stitched together by the heft of Fonda and Tomlin's performances and the intimacy of the writing when the show manages to take a step back and give the characters a beat for self - analysis.

If you like uninteresting characters doing stupid things, strung together by boring acoustic guitar solos, this movie is for you.

The screenplay, by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost, gives each of the characters something worthwhile to do and something amusing to say, and when its various strands are tied together in time for the momentous finale, even the most superhero - wary viewers will have smiles on their faces.

The character sort of reminded me of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction played by John Travolta, because he was a big name in the movie and linked everything together.

It is all held together by Billy Bob Thornton, who for all his character's selfishness, perversity and downright mean - spiritedness, still manages to engage our frazzled sympathies without ever being fully redeemed.

Some of the smaller characters band together to create a podcast led by one of the new actors, In the Loop's Zach Woods.

By the time the movie gets to the final climax, basically where every last character is suddenly together in a big obviously - in - a-warehouse-set with an impending action scene pitting them all against each other, I had completely lost interest in the story.

Beleaguered by problematic pacing issues, scenarios that never snap together easily, and horrendously - drawn characters, this dark comedy is a placebo for what should be a rousing, raucous romp.

Not a movie so much as extended takes edited together (by no less than 3 credited editors) of improvised scenes from previous characters in another Judd Apatow movie.

And the way this character shows a contrast by his aggressive, delusional super-hero persona, and his sweet - natured, natural and loveable doggy - side, which is mostly seen when he is together with his owner Penny - the little girl to whom he directs all his considerable love and devotion - should make him an inspiring figure for children and adults alike.

He built the character by «watching documentaries of kids, putting jigsaws together and being so occupied with something that they didn't react to a camera».

Johnson («Looper») deftly weaves the plot threads together, mixing deadpan humor, familiar characters — like the stalwart Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo, filling the furry boots of Peter Mayhew) and the chrome - plated Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie)-- and some surprising new ones, led by Laura Dern's Vice Admiral Holdo.

These performers work well together and are supported by fantastic actors like Rob Riggle, who recites his lines with enough energy to make his stock character, a clueless gym teacher, feel fresh.

Rami Malek takes on the role of «Buster», a character of many dimensions, whose life we try to piece together scene by scene like an intricate...

Creating worlds and characters by stringing words together is not for the faint of heart nor for those lacking in imagination, and can sap the soul without relief.

Tying everything together are the fantastic performances by the lead child cast, all of whom bring a depth to their characters many of their adult counterparts would envy, and of course, the killer clown himself, Bill Skarsgård.

The first reel of the film is taken up by a big wedding scene, bringing together two token gay characters who hated each other throughout the series and are now inexplicably exchanging vows before the holy vessel of Liza Minnelli — who also performs at the party with a hideous cover of «All the Single Ladies».

The men are all stock characters, all crudely hewn cads further exemplified by wooden, soap opera styled turns from Luke Evans, Edgar Ramirez, and Justin Theroux (character surnames like Hipwell and Abdick enhance a sense of silliness, like random words mashed together for a banality's sake).

These are pieces that might fit together in a smarter, stronger movie, but director Ken Scott (reteaming with Vaughn after the dreary «Delivery Man») seems to mold the characters scene by scene rather than making them believable and consistent over the course of the story.

Annihilation is the first in a trilogy of books by VanderMeer (known as «The Southern Reach Trilogy»), but it's a unique series in that each book feels entirely different from the others, and in fact each follows a different set of characters — although there is some overlap that brings it all together in the end.

That task is performed by another new character, Nic (Ismael Fritschi), who diligently restores Ángela's footage from the first movie as she and Guzmán put together what, exactly, the scientists down in the hull are up to.