Sentences with phrase «with black protagonists»

One African American crime writer tells me her agent says publishers don't believe there's a market for books with black protagonists: it's hard to crack the white ceiling.

The studio chief said there's a cultural shift — but that's not why he's releasing three stories with black protagonists this year

With Get Out, writer - director Peele doesn't just present a standard horror film with a black protagonist; he's not just subverting the hoary «black guy always dies first» trope.

Not exact matches

The film's essence is a montage of past interviews with the three protagonists of the iconic black power salute photograph: Tommie Smith (gold, USA), Peter Norman (silver, Australia), and John Carlos (bronze, USA).

Color black wasn't the only protagonist; short clothing was the other element that dominated the runway: short pants, dresses and bodies, all of them with an upper thigh height.

Michelle Monaghan smoldered at an intimate dinner for Les Bonbons and CVC Stones in a slinky, satiny champagne - hued Protagonist dress that she hardened with a black stone pendant and patent black accessories.

This time I chose a total black look with bold accessories as protagonists.

The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Utah - based filmmaker Andrew Black makes his feature debut with Pride & Prejudice: A Latter - Day Comedy.

The supporting characters are usually an afterthought, but in Black Panther, they are so well drawn that they seem every bit as interesting, perhaps even more so, than the main protagonist himself, who is either mostly masked or obvious CG during his battle sequences, whereas we are always aware as the women fight, with full acting and facial expressions to root us into their fight in the moment.

That means «Black Panther» stands entirely on its own, and like its protagonist, it stands tall with every right to be proud.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Jackie does feel, at times, like a companion piece to Black Swan, in that it matches its protagonist's sense of growing hysteria with a suitable visual and editing style.

Shot (with one exception) in black and white by Florian Ballhaus (son of Michael), the film is set to a score that is more industrial sound than music; yet, it is the combination of the clinically clean black - and - white cinematography, the disturbing score, and the narrative's single - minded focus on the protagonist's actions (there is no moment when the film seeks to psychologise him) by which the film manages to simultaneously solicit, on the one hand, our fascination with and, increasingly, horror about the events depicted — even long after Herold has proven how scarily easy it is for him to order mass murder (and, whenever necessary, to set an example by killing himself)-- and, on the other hand, to ensure that we keep some intellectual distance from the diegetic events.

Great punch line Martin Scorsese's evocative black - and - white biopic about real - life brawler Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro) is an intensely physical movie, tracing with operatic grandeur its protagonist's life from volatile middleweight contender to an obese has - been.

«[Black Panther] serves as an incredibly important cultural message arriving at a crucial time, complete with stunning visuals, unforgettable and epic action - sequences, an inspirational arc for both the protagonist and antagonist, and it introduces a slew of new characters who may be a bit underused this time around but will have us crying out for a sequel.»

And since it simultaneously serves up a compelling storyline and does a decent job of character development, it's worth checking out just based on the rarity of a movie with an empathetic black protagonist even being made about the Congo.

As previously reported, the weekend of March 9 marked the first time in recent memory, and possibly ever, that films by African - American directors have claimed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the same weekend, with Coogler's «Black Panther» again topping the box office, while Ava DuVernay's adaptation «A Wrinkle in Time,» which boasts a black female protagonist in Storm Reid as young heroine Meg Murry, opened in the second - place Black Panther» again topping the box office, while Ava DuVernay's adaptation «A Wrinkle in Time,» which boasts a black female protagonist in Storm Reid as young heroine Meg Murry, opened in the second - place black female protagonist in Storm Reid as young heroine Meg Murry, opened in the second - place spot.

Along with Hidden Figures, Girl's Trip and of course Black Panther, it showed that the old beliefs about films with non-white protagonists not selling at the box office are bigoted nonsense.

Its protagonist, King T'Challa — who fights in defense of his nation as the Black Panther, equipped with a bulletproof suit and imbued with enhanced strength, speed, and agility — is played with both regal confidence and real vulnerability by the versatile Chadwick Boseman.

The real - life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature.

And I have a book a with an African - American protagonist that isn't about being black.

Players will get an early chance to wear the shoes and hair of the Jack Black - voiced protagonist Eddie Riggs as he battles evil with his feisty sidekick Ophelia and see how the game's combo system fares when pulling off various double team attacks and how «The Deuce» handles, which is Eddie's upgradable vehicle of rawk.

Due to its 1960s setting and black protagonist Mafia 3 deals with racism a lot, and to its credit doesn't shy away from the topic, portraying it as an everyday thing that was simply a part of the culture of the time, an everyday occurrence.

In Black Ops, you're given a tangible protagonist to work with — Alex Mason, a SOG Operative.

The player gets to choose between a male or female protagonist right off the bat, and will accompany a team of black ops members with supersoldier capabilities.

Black Ops 2, in thematic solidarity with the sacrifices of its protagonists, will likely not be remembered among the best of its brethren.

Ultra Despair Girls does away with the murder mysteries and class trials that the series is best known for, and instead opts to hand Komaru Naegi — little sister of the first game's protagonist — a hacking gun that shoots out computer code using electromagnetic waves to take down an army of robotic Monokumas (the evil black and white bear) in more of a third - person shooter style.

Player character diversity: This year EA lacked many games with identifiable protagonists, but with FIFA 17's new story mode starring a black Manchester United hopeful called Alex Hunter and the teaser for Mass Effect: Andromeda ending with the default female version of protagonist [your chosen first name here] Ryder, there was nary an identifiable white guy to be seen.

The story takes a page out of Space 2001, with the protagonists encountering a towering black obelisk endowed with some inscrutable alien power.

In describing «Vignette,» Christie's says Marshall «inflects a social realist style with hints of Pop and Surrealist aesthetics to represent his black protagonists.

In Vignette, he inflects a social realist style with hints of Pop and Surrealist aesthetics to represent his black protagonists.

He is serious and robust, he narrated me about his life, that is shared between N. York (he was born in America in 1938) and Chania, that loves, where he works incessantly, creating a world of black and white, balancing between cartooning and drawing, innocence and gravity, hard reality and fairy tale, with a caustic humor, protagonist is the fantasy, the evident or covered sexuality, with the particular sensitivity that grips him as a person and artist.

It's certainly unmissable that its protagonists are, respectively, a disabled woman, a black woman, and a gay man, while its antagonist is a white man vocally obsessed with purity and patriotism, but hypocritical and monstrous about his own behavior, particularly around sex.