Sentences with phrase «turns around characters»

The cinematography's fluid and dynamic moving camera complements the supernatural theme, revolving in elegant ballerina - like turns around characters and swooping round others to emulate the comings and goings of Ofeig the ghost himself.

Not exact matches

Part of what makes Twitter unique is the need for brevity, and while there are ways around those restrictions — through reply threads and chunks of text turned into images — the only change to the limits that Twitter has successfully managed to introduce is the exclusion of @names from the character count.

Still, United showed character to turn it around and Matic deserves plaudits for taking a gamble to score a rare goal — and his first for United — to deliver the three points from an unlikely position.

Statement is baffling and is in fact the very thing that guys like cap and others are fighting against the truth is Colin didn't orignaly kneel during the anthem he sat on his bench he was then approached by vets who asked why he was sitting and asked him to do something else because sitting was disprectful it was those army vets who told cap to kneel because it shows your fighting against something and not just sitting to sit they told him it would be a better look and it's funny how people turn around and say he is disrespecting the very people who told him what to do and how to do it to get his message across this is the ignorance of America and everything cap fights against you judge a man by the color of his skin and his upbringing and not the content of his character you don't know anything about cap yet you pull this entire story out your ass go sit down clown

Something you won't see a lot of people giving him credit for, but it's fair to say Giroud is a pretty strong character to turn things around the way he has.

After the first game of the season and being 18 points down in the third quarter and to get turn it around and get ourselves the first win of the season shows the character and togetherness as a squad and club.

We've shown good character to come back from losing positions but it'd be nice now if we could turn that around and start off by leading the game.»

Heckman's thinking informs the book, which includes many examples of failing disadvantaged students who turned things around by acquiring character skills that substituted for the social safety net enjoyed by affluent students.

This doll is part of a collection of reversible dolls, also known as topsy turvy dolls, that turn into other characters when you turn them around.

«It is very curious that paragraph 4 (1) of the recommendations of the Kingibe panel prescribes that a serving director should be picked as the director - general, only for the same characters that sat in judgment over the need to reorganise the NIA, turning around to violate its own recommendations, by picking one of them to contemptuously assume duty as head of the NIA.

Similarly, the late in the game subplot that revolves around Joe agreeing to escort the sergeant - turned criminal Charles Willis (Ben Foster) ultimately distracts from the story and character threads that were already established, more than it enhances them.

Even Ponyo herself, who at first comes off as a blah character designed to sell toys, turns into a fully fleshed - out being, and the way she bounces around in various stages of her transmogrification is really cute.

Big change as characters did turn - arounds in their feelings and directions.

The filmmaker never pulls us into the twists and turns of her main character's mind, and she tiptoes around, rather than tackles, her ideas about class envy, the performative nature of identity and the tension between truth and happiness.

Anyone hoping to find out might realize that's not going to happen around the time one character appears to turn into a plant, but if not, they can always stick around to see another transform into a floating space blob.

But Beatty proved that bad situations can always be turned around; the actress said that her character, like herself, «is a fun - loving person who always has a plan (But) most of the time, her plans don't go the way she wants them to, but afterward she realizes she's had a good time anyway.»

To dull the pain of their rudderless existence, he and his friends drive around, smoke pot, burn down abandoned buildings, and generally behave like multicultural, Midwestern versions of the kids from Saturday Night Fever, another bleak working - class character study driven by a mesmerizing central star turn.

Never in a million years would I have guessed that the same filmmaker might turn around and make something like Tangerine, his punk - as - fuck portrait of a much seedier L.A.. It's not just a total creative 180, but kind of the opposite of a sell - out move: Trading a formulaic story for an unpredictable one and a slick Indiewood aesthetic for a gorgeous, radical lo - fi approach, Baker trains his iPhone camera on the kind of characters — black and transgender prostitutes, immigrant cabbies — that the movies rarely acknowledge, let alone put into starring roles.

It should be very familiar if you played any mainline Neptunia game as you take turns moving your characters around an arena and unleashing attacks that have the potential to damage multiple foes.

Twist movies are getting impossible to pull off, but this one earns every turn by grounding every plot development in characters who think, and then act to change the events around them.

Perhaps that's why large portions of this film feel like scenes Toback just wanted to use up somehow — particularly the Grodin sequence, in which his character rails against his fading faculties by turns sweetly and violently, and which might have been moving if it didn't feel so detached from everything around it.

Jake Gyllenhaal has really turned around his career over the past few years with character - driven films like «Nightcrawler,» «Enemy» and «Prisoners,» so it only seems natural that he would want to collaborate with Jean - Marc Vallée, the Canadian - born director who led Matthew McConaughey to Oscar gold in «Dallas Buyers Club» and helped revive Reese Witherspoon's career with «Wild.»

While the story doesn't have any twists or turns worth writing home about, the style it possesses is one - of - a-kind and gives the game solid character to flesh out the package around the core gameplay premise.

While the near - perfect pilot revolved around Forte's solitude, the series has added more cast members in subsequent episodes to thicken the plot and, surprisingly, turn Forte's character into the semi-villain of his own series.

But considering he spent the Spectre press tour calling his character a misogynist and declaring he'd rather slash his wrists than play Bond again — and considering recent rumors that he's turned down $ 100 million to reprise the role for two more films — it seems a safe assumption that he won't be sticking around for too much longer.

The pressroom gang has been cast from some working equivalents of the character boys who sat around His Girl Friday «s city hall, yet, save for David Wayne's Bensinger and Jon Korkes's tyro reporter (omitted from the Hawks film), these guys play it naturalistically compared to the brilliantly stylized turns of Karns, Hall, Truex, Toomey, Edwards, and Jenks.

The transfer's sole shortcoming is that it exhibits the commonplace phenomena known as «edge enhancement» - minor ringing appears around characters and locations throughout as if Stitch is pleading you to turn down your already - established ideal sharpness setting.

Fletcher is the vulgar, drill - seargent, hard - ass you love to hate, whose character shades do little to cover up deeply flawed principles, and yet, once you think the film acknowledges them it turns around and drops them like a bad habit.

Around every turn, you get introduced to a new character, species or galactic idea, even without fully understanding the last one you were just presented.

It's a riveting story with fascinating characters and surprises around every narrative turn, but it's also far more generous with the characters than the first few episodes would suggest.

Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Trespass) plays the titular character, an ex-con who has managed to turn his life around, despite his tendencies toward a violent temper and antisocial behavior.

The best drama win for «Breaking Bad» was its first ever, and Anna Gunn won a best supporting actress award for playing the wife of Bryan Cranston's Walter White character, the chemistry teacher turned drug lord whom the series revolves around.

Much like Gary given a chance to turn his life around, the character of Joe is given the chance to redeem himself and to guide a young man's life away from the darkness.

But the tone of condescension is effectively turned around by Margie, a sweet, loveable character who demonstrates serious skills and the equilibrium to cherish a lovely marriage with caring husband Norm (John Carroll Lynch).

A perennial loser who just doesn't get why everyone around him is an idiot and can't quite bring himself to adapt to modern day life, you wouldn't call the character of Wilson a stretch for Harrelson to play but it doesn't take away from the fact that Harrelson completely nails his turn.

More like a Guy Ritchie movie than a Tarantino one, the boys then indulge themselves in a series of wandering conversations, throwing crass jokes around, and having chance encounters with eccentric characters — all of which turned up knowing each other and eventually come to a head with a final chase / shootout.

Even the possibility of sequels turns out to be a question that distracts from a successful product: A little too bombastic for a leitmotif, Monty Norman's now - familiar «James Bond Theme» follows our hero around as if testing the waters, toying with the possibility that this character could support a series.

The tropes around deception and elusiveness are turned from instruments of undermining relationships to the way the main characters find their way back to one another.

It takes a special kind of writer to turn Michael Shannon (General Zod) into just another character actor, but the innately talented Shannon gets nothing to work with here and essentially fumbles around whenever he's on screen.

About the titular character, our own Ryland Aldrich described him thusly: «An ex-con with a troubled past and a penchant for making people want to hurt him, Joe is trying to turn things around in his life.

Working with his most trusted collaborator, Denis Lavant (who turns in an Oscar - worthy performance), Carax sets Holy Motors in a cinephile's wet dream fantasy land, where a man pops in and out of various characters, various stages of film history, and multiple storylines revolving around love, loss, family, and coming home.

The names Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro appear on screen just before the main character turns around, revealing that he is played by The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus.

It wasn't the most glamorous breakthrough role in the history of cinema, but Paul Giamatti's scene - stealing turn as Kenny «Pig Vomit» Rushton in the 1997 Howard Stern vehicle Private Parts immediately made him one of the most sought - after character actors around.

Anyhoo, your character automatically marches back and forth along the floor of a small 2D arena and it's your job to turn them around, dash, jump, and shoot.

An emotional heart - to - heart between Shaun and a dying Philip marks a bit of a turn; «Shaun of the Dead» has been flippant and fairly light - hearted about the violence around our characters up to this point, but in its second half, it begins to affect them in genuinely wrenching ways.

It is this array of characters that really give the film its soul, turning it into less of a chase thriller and more of mood - piece that revolves around a (not so sweet) country, whose inhabitants and climate can spell death in an instant.

When taking a character's turn, they can move around the arena of battle freely, which becomes important when considering that all attacks now have an area of effect, whether directly next to a character and their sweeping blade, or with large magical abilities.

In Building Character in Schools, one of the most thoughtful works in the field, Kevin Ryan and Karen Bohlin cite Socrates» comment, recorded in Plato's Republic: «The instrument with which one learns is like an eye that can not be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.»

As soon as we had turned the number 7 into a character (Angle Man) and invented a story around him meeting the other numbers, she got excited because she had an answer to every multiplication in the 7

Around them, other students take turns to make contributions, developing the character and filling in the blanks.