Sentences with phrase «where black characters»

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«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

When, in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared his «dream» — that we Americans should one day become a society where a citizen's race would be an irrelevancy, where black and white children would walk hand - in - hand, where persons would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character — this seemed to many Americans both a noble and attainable goal.

For example, Martin Luther King in the last decade had a dream that one day white children and black children would walk and work together in a land where character counts rather than color.

This is fine in the first ten minutes or so where the characters are being introduced and the Squad is being assembled; there's a lot of welcome black humour, particularly from a well - cast Margot Robbie, which serves to separate her version of the character from that in Batman: The Animated Series.

The character was introduced into the cinematic universe in 2016's Captain America: Civil War, where his portrayal by Chadwick Boseman was widely praised, but the reviews for Black Panther have been even more rapturous.

Jordan explained his motivation for the Killmonger character in an interview with Rolling Stone: «This young black man from Oakland, growing up in systemic oppression, not having his mom and dad around, going to foster care, being a part of this system... I understood his rage, and how he could get to the point where he had to do what he had to do, by any means necessary.»

So yeah, we all know that Black Panther, a.k.a. Prince T'Challa, is going to triumph over adversity in his bid to bring harmony to the kingdom of Wakanda, that there will be the obligatory action sequences where actual danger is a distant possibility for both hero and bystander, and that the plot will pivot on a mysterious object of unknown origin («Vibranium,» in this case — don't worry if it sounds unfamiliar; the film's characters will mention it at least three - dozen times over the course of the movie).

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Some of the criticism was aimed in particular at Rockell's character, Dixon, a racist police officer with at least one known instance where he tortured a black man.

The highlight of the movie for me was the power cut, where we are treated to a pitch black screen with the characters chatting away.

The film used a large amount of support characters and where many films have too many support characters that hinders their lead role's command, Black utterly commands the screen even when he is merely the subject of Carthage's stories.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

But there has to be some significance to the fact that most of the characters in Black Panther — a film where personal and cultural identity crises drive a pulpy plot — are master spies or have secrets to hide or are otherwise literally masked.

For characters like Black Panther and Spider - Man, who'll get their own solo films directed by Ryan Coogler and Jon Watts, where does the question of authorship fall in terms of casting and development?

More recently, a minor audio cut was made to India's release of «Black Panther» in a scene where Winston Duke's character, M'Baku, yells out the name of the Hindu deity Hanuman.

That's a good description of the final film — one in which you can see glimmers of the Shane Black script underneath (hardboiled characters, snappy dialogue, bursts of shocking violence, a Christmas setting) but surrounded by a lot of unnecessary bullshit to the point where you can almost feel the egos of the movie superheating the frame and melting away what was once originally there.

Sharon Carter (aka Agent 13) will bolster the film's roster of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, adding more credence to an old theory of ours that Captain America 2 would not only explore more of the history of Steve Rogers, but would mesh many elements from the oft - talked about S.H.I.E.L.D. film where characters including Black Widow and Nick Fury could have their backstory explored as well.

Simien's film takes place at Winchester University, a predominantly white, prestigious university where we're introduced to six significant characters: Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the biracial activist who overcompensates her blackness; Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams), the black homosexual who lives in an all - white residence building, and feels little sense of belonging; Colandrea «CoCo» Conners (Teyonah Parris), the white - washed blogger who acknowledges racism yet chooses to ignore it in fear of non-acceptance from the white majority; The Dean (Dennis Haysbert), who has worked hard his whole life solely to over-emphasize his superiority and intelligence towards white corporate men, specifically the president of Winchester; The Dean's son Troy (Brandon Bell), who spends his college career doing things to make his father happy and impress the white majority; and Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner), the privileged, ignorant son of the President of Winchester.

With its dark humor and complicated characters and themes — a mother out to avenge her daughter's rape and murder, a suggestion of police brutality against black residents — «Three Billboards» made an early splash with critics and audiences at the Venice Film Festival in September and then at the Toronto International Film Festival in October, where it won the audience award and was hailed by some as one of the year's best.

Like Reynolds, Miller developed a career slump after her own disastrous G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra where she played another black leather - clad dual pistol wielding character The Baroness (not unlike Domino) but managed to pick herself back up recently landing major studio roles.

«It's about bringing new characters to the screen... Black Widow couldn't be more important than as an Avenger herself and, like Hulk, The Avengers films will be the films where they play a primary role.»

It's described as something of a celebration of the Black Ops series where you can play as characters from the previous games and use any weapon throughout the Black Ops series — including the exploding RC car.

There's also the Twin Towers: a place where you can battle the 4 Black Riders, character that originally appeared in the second story arc of the Monster Hunter Stories anime series.

One of the battlefields in Earth's invasion is Wakanda, where Black Panther, a new character with his own movie coming out in 2018, rules

Steering ever further into his «worried sidekick of other, more badass characters» niche, Sherlock and Black Panther star Martin Freeman has signed on for a new spy thriller where he plays, you guessed it, the worried former handler of a badass rogue spy.

Where so many Marvel introductions to date have concerned themselves with dishing out every familiar and / or accessible character traits to satisfy fans and engage the uninitiated, Black Panther is one of the only such films to truly distinguish itself as its own unique entity.

Tika Sumpter does a fine job as Michelle, capturing the character's wary calm as she navigates multiple worlds at once, from the working - class Chicago neighborhood where she still lives with her parents to the high - powered law office where she feels she has to work extra hard to be seen as «Michelle» and not «the black woman.»

Just because you can make a movie where the Guardians of the Galaxy meet Thor, Spider - Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, the Hulk, and Black Widow — along with a host of others supporting characters — doesn't mean it's a good idea.

The movie goes inside her head, where characters representing Joy (Amy Poehler) Anger (Lewis Black) Fear (Bill Hader) Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) work the levers and panels of her brain.

But Barry begs to differ; its drama springs from the character's identity crisis — his difficulty in assimilating into either Ivy League academia, where white peers insist he «get over» slavery and campus cops harass him, or New York's black community.

In Stonewall, a hunky football player boards a Greyhound in an all - American, cornfields - and - horn - rimmed - glasses picture of the mid-century Midwest, and arrives in a New York of Lou Reed characters, where coverage of the Apollo space program warbles out of every black - and - white TV set and J. Edgar Hoover haunts the...

The image depicts the front yard of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, where X-Men characters participate in the mayhem initiated by a black - ops unit.

King T'Challa was introduced on - screen in Captain America: Civil War, but his solo movie, Black Panther, is where we will finally see the character truly cut loose.

io9: It's funny, because black superhero characters used to be locked into either a ghettofied, blaxploitation mode or a concept where they need to «rise above» that, which is an inherently racist notion in and of itself.

There are few films, outside of the horror genre, where a character's exterior so aptly mirrors the evil brutality within as Johnny Depp's James «Whitey» Bulger in the gripping and brutal crime saga «Black Mass.» With dead, cold - blue eyes set against a...

Not exactly a role worth championing, but the actress and director attempt to explain the character's vital role as a conduit for street cop Heston to explore the corrupt world of the rich, where rice, strawberries, beef and fresh vegetables are rare, black market items.

Where most of Black Panther's male characters regard Ross with curiosity if not appreciation, M'Baku can not be bothered.

(The movie cliché where characters are minding their own business and are suddenly walloped by automobiles, perhaps started by «Meet Joe Black» but now popping up frequently, really needs to pump the brakes.)

The film is captured in beautiful black and white as it sets the tone for the entire film while the cinematography catapults the film into a free - flowing renaissance where nature takes on a form of not just setting but a character to sympathize with and examine more thoroughly.

two boys who are the unlikeliest of friends [who] go on an odyssey in search of a great black bear, where they meet truly strange characters, some of whom are dangerous, all of whom are in some ways lost, and each of whom figures into a concurrent myth based on patterns in the number pi.

That measured attitude leads to less histrionics and more pathos, as his black, male characters grapple with the complexities of navigating everyday life in the United States where the chips are mostly stacked against them.

Sadly this lack of any intelligence shows up in the boss battles too; epic fights against Wolverine or Gambit should be a deadly dance of death, but in reality both characters have just a few simple moves at their disposal and have a rather peculiar tendency to attack absolutely nothing, leaving the locked in an attack animation where you can happily batter them black and blue.

I came away from playing through Dark very impressed with it.Dark is a platformer where you control a small diamond shaped character who is completely black except for his eyes.

There is also the huge plot hole where your family is black no matter what race your created character is.

Thor will be available as a single character purchase, where as Iron Man & Black Widow will combine to create the Marvel Avenger's Play Set — both will be released in November 2014.

Black Ops 4 raises the bar for Multiplayer mode that increases tactical gameplay and player choice, along with the biggest Zombies offering ever with three full experiences at launch, and Blackout, where the Black Ops universe comes to life in a massive battle royale experience featuring iconic characters and locations from all four Black Ops games in a one - of - a-kind offering that is uniquely Black Ops.

Featuring gritty, grounded, fluid Multiplayer combat, the biggest Zombies offering ever with three full undead adventures at launch, and Blackout, where the universe of Black Ops comes to life in one massive battle royale experience featuring the largest map in Call of Duty history, signature Black Ops combat, characters, locations and weapons from the entire Black Ops series.

Asides from the single - player experience, there is also a multi-player battle mode where players can choose from 68 characters from the Dragon Ball Z universe, including Goku Black from Dragon Ball Super, a first for the first for the Xenoverse series.

All three characters are available for download from online marketplaces starting tomorrow in Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag multiplayer, where they will join the hunt for survival.

This was a place where game stores did not exist and to fill the vacuum a whole menagerie of black market characters had stepped in.