Sentences with phrase «violence against characters»

The prospect that fighting human - looking characters can provoke more aggression than unleashing violence against characters with no real - world counterparts could have implications for debates over gaming, especially as video games become more sophisticated and immersive, Farrar says.

Not exact matches

Kelly — who first learned of the domestic violence allegations against Porter months ago — issued a glowing statement of support for Porter's personal character after the allegations first surfaced publicly Tuesday and privately urged him to remain on the job until the next day when his resignation was announced.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

I'm absolutely against violence, but the rage of Ben Fosters character spoke to me.

As for that key moment that sets up the final act, I thought the film established the character motivation adequately with the earlier scenes showing us Schultz's reaction to some of the violence against slaves.

Violence: A character with an alcohol addiction behaves erratically, smacks his head against a wall, and falls from a stage.

I'm not against the idea of rebooting the character in films so long as MGM doesn't «teenify» the still shocking violence, sick humor and sharp satire of the original.

Another set piece involves even more intimate violence, Nick improvising his fight against an armed gang in ways that highlight the importance of his courage and resourcefulness, yet also gives a sense of the irrelevance of these characters» exploits within the world's larger, indifferent context.

But that ubiquity of violence against queer characters can erase the exact communities filmmakers hope to advocate for.

There's the sweet and charming side of Ferdinand, the story of a kindhearted bull that refuses to participate in the violence for which it was born and raised, and there's the movie's less charming aspects, which congregate a bunch of kooky characters to accompany the eponymous bull through his passive rebellion against violence.

Violence: Characters are kidnapped, kicked, punched, beaten, threatened with guns, shot, hit with metal rods, slammed against the wall and stabbed with a pair of scissors.

Kingsley's roundhouse climactic speech reveals evil as a beast not easily classified and explained, but it's not until the epilogue that Polanski unleashes his film's final, and most powerful, punch — a supple crane shot inside a concert hall that both evokes the inextricable web of deceit, violence, and shame that binds Death and the Maiden's three crippled characters, and stands as a superlative evocation of how man's crimes against his fellow man are frequently hidden beneath a façade of everyday decorum.

The lack of relatable female characters, combined with the ethical indifference toward violence against women, makes Three Billboards already feel like a relic.

Slouka's characters struggle to survive against a backdrop of remembered pain, routine violence and the threat of being drafted to Vietnam, fighting to retain a friendship that may just be able to save them.»

Take a wronged character bent on revenge, throw in a series of mid-boss type enemies to topple en route to a final showdown against your real adversary, and sprinkle liberally with over-the-top action, violence, and gore.

PEGI (the rating system used in Europe) has rated the game PEGI 7 for minor «non-realistic violence against human like and fantastical characters.»

So in addition to helping paint a gritty picture for the rest of the game experience, this kind of sexualized violence against inessential female characters is exploited by developers as a sort of cheap one - note character development for the «bad guys».

Who knew that at the same time that Nintendo was railing against Sega and Mortal Kombat, they were releasing comedy games with Mario characters in sexual situations, tobacco usage and domestic violence?

While playing, gamers are routinely forced to witness graphic scenes of violence against female NPCs as these acts are committed in real time by other game characters.

In some of these games violence against women is then used as character development for the protagonist.

In the 2009 game Wolfenstein, the Elite Guard are a special all - female enemy unit whose absurd uniforms sexualize not only the female characters themselves but also player's acts of violence against them.

Violence against female characters should never be presented as «sexy».

In the Street Fighter games, for instance, when Chun - Li and Ryu fight each other, this isn't considered violence against women, because the two characters are presented as being on more or less equal footing, and because Chun - Li is an active participant who isn't being targeted or attacked specifically because she's a woman.

These breaches in the construct of Soleimani's characters serves to expose the bodies of those in power to symbolic acts of violence as well as subvert their traditional displays of masculinity and authority; at the same time, it reveals the bodies of those that might suffer at the hands of men in power as they accrue wealth through brutal acts of exploitation against humanity and the earth.