Sentences with phrase «whose war boys»

Instead, the game focuses on a Max that is more driven (excuse the pun) to get to Gas Town, in order to extract vengeance on Scabrous Scrotus, whose War Boys left Max for dead in the middle of the wasteland having stripped him of everything he held dear, most notably his car.

Not exact matches

Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, it tells the story of a young boy named Albert (Jeremy Irvine) whose horse is sold to the cavalry during World War I.

But like many rising young directors of his generation (e.g. Star Wars rebooter J.J. Abrams), Coogler carries around the little - boy version of himself, a kid at heart whose dreams have been colonized by the»70s blockbusters.

It strikes the right chords, not only as a personal story of one boy's confusion with his own identity, but also of the confusion of an entire country, whose peoples were conflicted about a war they didn't want, and a bubbling under of anti-immigration sentiment that left foreign newcomers largely unprotected to skinhead gangs like the one depicted in the film.

Matthew Fox is the ostensible star as Jack, the doctor who steps up as group leader in the first episode, but it quickly settles in as a dense ensemble show with characters who have vivid backstories: tough, raven - haired beauty Kate, whose fair looks hide a rough outlaw past (Evangeline Lilly), con man Sawyer (Josh Holloway) who hides his bitterness under a country - boy voice and a suspicious smile, Iraqi communications specialist and Gulf war veteran (he fought on the other side) Sayid (Naveen Andrews), steely survivalist John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), who has a mystic, one might say miraculous, connection to the island, pregnant single mother - to - be Claire (Emilie de Ravin) running from a fortune - teller's prophecy, washed - up rock star and heroine addict Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), Korean couple Jin and Sun Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim and Yoon - jin Kim) with mob connections and no English skills (or do they?)

Of course, Landis is also the guy whose biggest takeaway from Star Wars: The Force Awakens was that Rey was «a Mary Sue» because she was too capable — and yet the farm boy who blows up the enormous planet - killing space station after five minutes of Jedi training is totally fine.

The play is essentially about a boy during WWI whose father sells his horse to the military and thus goes on a journey through war - ravaged Europe to find his equine best friend.

Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan is a true story of Pino Lella who was a seventeen year of Italian boy living in Millan whose parents sent him to live in a monastery in the Alps where he and his fifteen year old brother led Jewish immigrants, downed British pilots and others to freedom over the Alps to Switzerland during World War II.

Starring two teenagers — a French girl and a German boy — on opposite sides of the war whose lives become intertwined in surprising ways, this magical, almost fable - like story is a sweeping saga.

This powerful, engaging novel set in Ottawa at the end of World War II introduces 12 - year - old Martin O'Boy, whose wit, upbeat disposition, and superhero inspiration help him triumph over poverty, a troubled family life, and abuse from a man with an eye for boys.

Steely and implacable, Jerene presides over her family's legacy of paintings at the Mint Museum; Duke, the one - time college golden boy and descendant of a Confederate general, whose promising political career was mysteriously short - circuited, has settled into a comfortable semi-senescence as a Civil War re-enactor.

Bruchac's absorbing historical novel tells the story of a boy who became one of the brave Navajo code talkers, whose messages helped the U.S. achieve victory in World War II.

Doerr's beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II.

There were finally, the two peasant boys whose story is related in Gunther Weisenborn's Der lautlose Aufstand (1953), who were drafted into the S.S. at the end of the war and refused to sign; they were sentenced to death, and on the day of their execution they wrote in their last letter to their families: «We two would rather die than burden our conscience with such terrible things.