Human translators are trained to catch
the way characters speak and what actual meaning a thing has.»
Adapted from stories drawn from Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval book «The Decameron,» the film draws humor from the tension between its setting and
the way the characters speak and interact as a story unfolds about a fugitive servant (Dave Franco) who pretends to be a deaf - mute to be taken in by a convent that includes three young nuns (Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Kate Micucci), each dealing with personal crises of their own.
Not exact matches
At the recent All Things Digital D10 Conference, Ari Emanuel (co-head of William Morris talent agency and the inspiration for the Ari Gold
character from HBO's The Entourage)
spoke about how crowdfunding could revolutionize the
way our favorite TV shows or movies get produced.
The authors of Scripture do not always
speak with one voice, but this is because they are presenting the question of the
character of God in different
ways.
But his answer diverges in two
ways: (i) In
speaking of «lateral tensions» as having some influence on what each natural moment passes on to later moments, Santayana is in conflict with Whitehead's view that in its process of becoming an actual occasion is causally quite detached from its contemporaries, and operates privately upon the past occasions which have entered into it in order to produce that over-all
character which it will pass on to later occasions.
The Old as well as the New Testament has the astonishing power to
speak of the divine in such a
way that the I - thou
character of the relation never darkens the transpersonal power and mystery of the divine, and vice versa.29
True to that vision, The Goldfinch remains a largely secular story, and its
characters often act as if God does not exist: They live for the moment, sin boldly, and
speak in profane
ways.
[21] We come to see that at the heart of the sacramentality of the word of God is the mystery of the incarnation itself: «the Word became flesh» (Jn 1:14), the reality of the revealed mystery is offered to us in the «flesh» of the Son... The sacramental
character of revelation points in turn to the history of salvation, to the
way that the word of God enters time and space, and
speaks to men and women, who are called to accept his gift in faith.»
The inspired writers introduced dramatic roles as a
way of allowing the most significant
characters of Scripture to manifest themselves and to
speak, and so to progress the Biblical narrative from within.
Lashing out like a little child the
way he did just
speaks to his
character and lack of sense.
I am
speaking about his
character and the
way he presents himself.
The leadership of Cesc and the resilience and
character of the whole team
speaks volumes for Wenger's faith in this side, and there will be no better
way to confirm this than by lifting the Premier League trophy in May.
I have to know, or at least try to know, what's personality, what's
character, and what is the
way that my children are emotionally strong, so to
speak.
ACA recently
spoke with Tough about why
character strengths are critical to success, the importance of connection, and what camps offer kids in the
way of role models, community, and unique learning environments.
Mr. Osei - Mensah,
speaking with staff of the Regional Coordinating Council, noted that, in his bid to undertake government policies and programs, «I will not entertain any
character that may be an impediment in my
way.»
He Said, She Said The
way we write and
speak can reveal volumes about our identity and
character.
It was painful for me to get through — not because of the risqué content — but because I didn't like the writing and felt that the voices (words they used, the
way they
spoke) given to the main
characters just seemed soooo fake and uncomfortable.
Lying is very immature and
speaks poorly both about your
character and level of confidence; sooner or later, the truth has its
ways of reaching the surface.
Learning Chinese is one of the hardest things you could ever learn to do, not only is it because the language is so different from our own, but there are new
characters, new intonations, and an entirely new
way of
speaking to master.
You can find hot women and men, and thus able to
speak with the date of room for instant messages, and if you like their
character and
way of talking can go a day, one place.
Hey everybody,
Way back in 1972 I was sitting in my garage with a little Wurlitzer electric piano when this song popped out and Rendigs Attorneys at Law have big firm capability and small firm
character, we
speak your language.
There's Chaplin's outrageous and over-exaggerated take on the
way that Hitler (Hynkle)
speaks, but there's also the classic Tramp
character himself as nothing more than a simple barber.
From his Oscar - winning and unforgettably moving adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) to such introspective original works as Tender Mercies (1983) and The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Foote had a
way of crafting
characters who
speak directly to the soul with honesty and sincerity.
The two leads (Broadway legends Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard) act as if they were still on the stage, their facial expressions, the
way they hold one another, the
way they carry themselves in these desperate times, really
spoke volumes about the
way the
characters interacted with each other.
More than that, during their conversations, Demme captures each
character's reflection in the partition glass as the other
speaks, once again making the visual impression that these two are equals, have similarities, are in some
ways alike.
Clearly this is the filmmakers» thinly - veiled commentary on how we, as a society, have altered the
way we now converse,
speaking in 140
character tweets and status updates without context or compassion.
(There's a specific cinematic language these films
speak; when you hear a certain kind of music cue, or see a shot framed in just such a
way, or when a
character expresses anything approaching contentment, you'll know it's coming, so gird your loins.)
Having
characters often not understanding each other as they
speak Polish, Yiddish, German and Ukrainian underlines the fraught complexity of Poland's ethnic situation and points out, for instance, the
way the Germans used Ukrainians like Socha's friend Bortnik (Michal Zurawski) to do the dirtiest of their dirty work.
Like most great
character actors, she was an onscreen chameleon, going from funny to sexy to vulnerable to hyper - intelligent to invisible across projects, and her works
speaks for itself in its own quiet
way, because she was never a Hollywood celebrity.
The bite of Baumbach's wit has always been firmly grounded in the absurdity of the familiar; if his
characters find themselves stuck in clichéd scenarios, the
way they move — and
speak — within them never ceases to entertain.
None of the
characters are meant to
speak for a specific demographic of the world, and more importantly, both Judy and Nick have their own triumphs of moral success and missteps along the
way.
ERIC KOHN: No major American filmmaker has flaunted his autonomy from the Hollywood system more than Quentin Tarantino, whose
characters speak and whose movies move in
ways that are forever connected to his name.
Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman and Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket
Speaking of makeup... We already know how fantastic Stanley Tucci and Elizabeth Banks are as Caesar Flickerman, talk show host, and Effie Trinket, ditzy publicist / babysitter from the first «Hunger Games,» but they are doing career - best work here, dialing their flamboyant and over-the-top
characters way,
way up without losing the utmost control.
With the
way the
characters are written (we'll have a French guy who only
speaks in French but everyone understands him!
Oh, and if one
character is designed to steal the show, it's Pigeon Toady (Stephen Kramer Glickman), a gnarly «brah» with an imitable
way of
speaking and being annoying.
That being said, the owls all
speak in an Australian accent for some reason and the only
way that I was able to differentiate the
characters was from their looks alone.
One of the most discerning and revered actors in Hollywood, her public persona radiates with soft -
spoken, good - humoured charm — and yet what stands out most prominently from her eclectic film career is the robust gallery of visceral, vinegary and headstrong
characters who are unendingly encouraged to change their
ways by those behind and in front of the camera.
The dialogue is hilarious and true, her
characters speak in
ways wise and wacky.
This newest chapter
speaks to this equality of strong
character in many
ways, whether that be on either side of the force.
Furthermore, the two central
characters aren't French in the
way that term is typically understood, though they and the other
characters speak French throughout.
As usual, his
characters speak in an overly mannered, forthright
way.
Finally, Miranda (Julia Roberts) is a host of a home shopping show who has no family to
speak of because of her career goals, so there is obviously no
way that she could be connected with any of the previously mentioned
characters, so put that thought out of your mind right now.
For me (again, different opinions / take on the film), I still got a lot of
character INSIGHT through Portman's nuances, looks,
way she
spoke, what she said, actions, reactions, momentary bouts with the
characters around her.
It's like his
characters speak the
way we think, rather than the
way we actually talk outloud... and this makes for some awkward scenes.
In a
way, one can make the connection to the film itself, in which Tilda Swinton agreed to play the role of Marianne if her voice is never heard, giving her
character a throat surgery recovery angle that effectively makes her play the entire role with body language, save for a few choice moments when she must
speak, albeit in a nearly inaudible whisper.
But then Danny McBride and Nick Swardson's
characters are the bad guys in the movie, and they just say the most insane and crass stuff, because guys like that would be — they'd
speak in this awful
way.
Speaking to Huffington Post, the directing duo opened up about
characters who may or may not have — spoilers — survived Thanos» (Josh Brolin) judgement of the universe, handed down by
way of the Infinity Stone - powered Infinity Gauntlet.
Nick and Norah's sharp, self - conscious repartee has a snappiness that's closer to the
way real suburban teenagers
speak than the baroque one - liners Diablo Cody put in the mouth of Juno (not to mention every other
character in that movie, appropriate or not).
Characters address each other while
speaking directly to the lens, in tones too matter - of - fact for their circumstances, at least the
way movies train us to listen.
In many
ways, the
character speaks for the audience when he questions the absurdity of the plan.