Sentences with phrase «white actors playing»

Some shots will never be rid of their overexposed softness, but others look as good as any classic western, with detail so fine you can see the contrast of real dirt caked over fake blood, or the excessive bronzer applied to white actors playing Native Americans (a sadly ubiquitous sight in the genre and a compromise to standards in the otherwise full - throated subversion of racist Hollywood tradition).

Gods of Egypt is the crazy epic action - adventure movie from Alex Proyas involving lots of white actors playing mythological Egyptian gods, and the first few trailers haven't been that great as the footage looks insane.

Do look out for their final scene together — it's an absolute gem, so good, in fact, that I completely forgot to worry about the endless controversy over white actors playing Asian characters.

«Doctor Strange» and «Ghost in the Shell» reveal another glaring Hollywood problem: White actors playing characters of Asian origin

But * they will * pay to see white actors play primary roles in films supposedly about people of color.

The Indigenous perspective is fore - fronted by Geoffrey Atherden, who employs a flipped - reality for his screenplay Babakiueria (1986), directed for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation by Don Featherstone, and set in a world where white actors play Indigenous Australians at the mercy of oblivious Aboriginal colonisers.

Spoofing the Hollywood system is already a tricky business — most of the time, these movies are so loaded with in - jokes that it's difficult for the audience to relate — but when you couple that with the controversial casting of a white actor playing a black character for most of the film, there's little room for error.

Not exact matches

In Selma, white characters are played by white actors and black characters are played by black actors.

Serial fans know Pierre Watkin as the actor who originated the role of bombastic Daily Planet editor Perry White in Columbia's two Superman chapter plays of the late»40s.

He also hired an actor to play Francis in staged scenes filmed in the style of a black - and - white silent movie from the 1920s.

Also impressive is director Wenders» use of his and Lisa Rinzler's shoots in Assisi, black - and - white, deliberately faded and silent film, showing an actor playing St. Francis who at the key point in his life heard God tell him to restore a dilapidated church — which I believe he did thinking that God's will is more important than his father's rage at the saint's alleged throwing away his money.

Token white actor Martin Freeman (Watson in the TV Sherlock Holmes movies) plays CIA Agent Everett K. Ross and adds some much - welcomed comedic moments to the action.

Black & White movie from 1949 which is not all that bad, it starts off like a educational film but turns into a great movie, or main actor Robert Lowery who plays Fireman Joe Martin undercover did a excellent job along with Edward Brophy.

With looks that allow him to either play soft - skinned pretty boys or greasy - haired white trash refuse, Sarsgaard has used his malleable features and brooding charisma to great effect in such films as Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.A graduate of St. Louis» Washington University, where he was a co-founder of the improvisational group Mama's Pot Roast, Sarsgaard studied at the Actors» Studio in New York.

At last year's Emmys, when lead actor Bryan Cranston beat out Dexter «s Michael C. Hall and Mad Men «s Jon Hamm, the underdog bite in the W mirrored that of Walter White «s, the cancer - stricken, primo meth - cooking family man he plays.

He's the archetypal cable - TV antihero — white and affluent, a master in his field with impulse - control issues; a charismatic asshole — with one exception: he's exhausting, made all the more so by the actor playing him.

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.

This was the most insulting thing of all as fan who is a woman of color because if I were white or if Johnny Storm was played by a white actor, stupid comments like.

Haley amasses more interest in his quartet of young men, though Rob Brown, Michael Pitt, and Christopher Abbott (an actor whose talents are a bit underserved here, especially if you manage to see him in this year's James White, which reached limited theatrical release only a week prior) all play certain «types» of people, while Dan Stevens gets to do something a little more colorful (though quite silly and ultimately, convoluted).

The sister, Anne, played by the singer Zendaya, falls in love with Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron), a wealthy white actor who invests in Barnum's show for reasons the film is completely unable to explain.

Jonah Hill plays Belfort's cohort and punching bag Donnie Azoff and the actor sports his whitest teeth ever.

Roberts Blossom, a veteran character actor who played the old, white - bearded next - door neighbor who befriends young Macaulay Culkin in the hit movie «Home Alone,» has died.

A creature shop video has been released by Lucasfilm and we've spotted that English / Welsh actor Ian Whyte will be playing the white haired Gigoran mercenary named Moroff.

The African American actor who played Dr. Kananga / Mr Big in «Live and Let Die,» believes «James Bond was established by Ian Fleming as a white character,» and should be «played by white actors»

Some hints for the new actor rumored to play Doctor Strange: Like previous rumor subjects Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hardy, he is a white fella.

This Friday, «Mirror Mirror» presents a comedic spin on the Snow White story with Lily Collins as the titular princess, «Social Network» actor Armie Hammer as Prince Charming, and Julia Roberts playing against type as the wicked queen.

Max Irons (son of actor Jeremy Irons and recently seen as King Edward IV in the BBC's «The White Queen») and Rachel Tucker (best known for playing Elphaba in the West End's Wicked, a role she played for over 1,000 performances) will star in the U.K. premiere of Beau Willimon's Farragut North.

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

Not only do these African - American - voiced characters played by a white actor (Tom Kenny) speak street jive, but they boast about being unable to read and one sports a gold tooth.

The group makes it over the wall, but not before two of the series» prominent characters of color — played by Mekhi Phifer and Maggie Q, who are each given virtually no dialogue as a parting gift — are gunned down, likely to make room for the new influx of white actors we're about to meet (Daniel Dae Kim shows up for a second too, another minority bit - part designed to create a false sense of diversity).

The actor is best known for playing Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire and is currently shooting 12 Years a Slave, which co-stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender.

Shot in a stark black and white, with the actors repeatedly isolated in their own frames, some really creepy images of crazy nuns (the long early sequence wherein the nuns are interrogated and exorcised is a miniature masterpiece) and a series of subjective tracking shots implicating the audience in the chaos, the film reaches a high point when the priest consults the local rabbi (also played by Voit) in a series of head - on medium shots.

He is a very fine dramatic actor, though, but there's just little in The Big White that suggests they needed someone of his stature to play such an undemanding role, other than for the commercial appeal of a big name to attach to it.

A major supporting Native American role in a classic Western might even be played by a white actor.

White is an astonishment as Buck, managing the difficult task of being endearing and unsettling at the same time; Paul Weitz (who, along with brother Chris, co-directed American Pie) is amusingly faux macho as the actor hired to portray Chuck in Buck's play; and talent manager Colt is a natural screen presence.

While many terms — whitewashing, white - savior complex, etc. — have gotten conflated over the past couple of years, this is a clear - cut case of whitewashing: The characters in the book are not white, but the actors who play them in the adaptation are.

The film is said to be about one white couple and one black couple; if cast, Nyong» o and Duke will play one, while Moss and another actor will play the other.

Mitchell was heartened to find that the white actors were more uncomfortable than he was during filming, in particular Jonathan Banks, who plays the racist grandfather known as Pappy.

Every single character in the film is a walking stereotype, and in typical rom - com fashion, they're mostly white — including the Colombian - born Alejandro, played by British actor Barnes — and extremely privileged.

Few men can play middle - aged white - male anger with more gusto than the Pulitzer - winning playwright and actor, but never mind the rage; 2017 was the year we saw the range.

In a scene where Dev is explaining to a character named Anush why he doesn't like «Short Circuit 2,» he tells him that Fisher Stevens, the actor who plays Ben Jahveri, is white.

-- we submit that maybe «Gods of Egypt» makers were going for the same effect as that production of «The Mountaintop» that cast a white actor to play Martin Luther King.

In the first known movie version, from 1903, the aging, potbellied Tom is played by a white actor in blackface, and black actors playing slaves dance merrily at the beginning of each scene.

Jeff Bridges will always be best known as an actor, iconic for his roles in films including The Fischer King, Tron, True Grit and the Coen Brothers» 1998 cult comedy The Big Lebowski, where he played the White Russian - sipping pacifist known as the Dude.

Actor has shown interest in reprising several of his famous roles, including playing Walter White on AMC's prequel, «Better Call Saul»

Everyone signs lovingly in the presence of the deaf son, Thad (played by the deaf actor Tyrone Giordano), and the family has nothing but affection for his African - American husband, Patrick (Brian J. White).

There are 12 short films for each play: 3 scenes filmed in colour, in the theatre and 8 workshops filmed in black and white, with actors and directors exploring those scenes.

As the actor playing Virtue, resplendent in a long white false beard, lectured Dissimulation on his deceitful ways — appropriately, perhaps, to an audience of lawyers — my attention wandered and I cast my eyes over the shadowed faces of the audience.

That would be Neil Patrick Harris, an actor so great he's not only played both a child doctor and a mad doctor but also pulled off the greatest cameo in cinematic history in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

I was wearing a green shirt and (as you may know) Tokyo Disney flies in white actors to play their white characters.