Sentences with phrase «with established characters»

For some authors, having fans write new plots with their established characters is a flattering look at the ways their readers engage with the characters, and symbolizes that the authors» works were so meaningful to the fans that they weren't ready to let go of the fun.

It's challenging to make a great back - in - time - travel movie, especially one that deals with established characters.

It feels as though the person wearing your pants is performing actions consistent with your established character, yet there is plenty of research suggesting otherwise.

Every pilot is burdened with establishing character, jump - starting the narrative and hooking the audience, but Under the Dome unnecessarily force - feeds us its first hour to its own detriment....

With an established character like Spider - Man, though, there really is no need for this set up.

The prequel novel is written by David Liss (The Ethical Assassin, Black Panther: The Man Without Fear) and will reveal Kingpin's plans to gain an iron grip on New York City, along with establishing character relationships that can be continued in the game

Not exact matches

Although most success is ultimately rewarded with a larger paycheck or promotion, the small patterns you create on a daily basis become part of your character and not only increase your overall happiness but showcase skill and establish confidence.

To say the director butchered Tim Burton's established vision of Gotham City with his campy, slapstick characters is an understatement.

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

Her character is established in part by contrast with Fanny.

It is the way life makes way for more life.9 Death establishes a common fate for every living thing, and thus gives a decisive character to our dependence upon God and our unity with all His creatures.

But he is not made known as Son of God in reality until he is established in power, until it becomes clear that such a character of trust and loyalty is indeed in complete harmony with the nature of things.

A new sitcom with a transgender character fits into an established genre and a predictable agenda.

And so, if their posthumous renown gives to their name a special glory, it is not because of their posthumous life, which spiritists and theosophists have not been able to establish with certainty, but to their apotropaion character.

After Iron Fist was rightly criticized for racial insensitivities, using the character's well - established comic book friendship with one of Marvel's most prominent black superheroes to directly confront systemic racism is a bold, smart move.

He or she is the person, very often a continuing character with whom we are encouraged to establish a vicarious relationship, who faces and overcomes threat or challenge and emerges, often bloodied, but always victorious.

With the exception of Koheleth, who is late and therefore drawing on an already established usage, all these sources are strongly priestly in character (the Amos instance comes in a formal hymnic doxology which may or may not be the prophet's own work).

To establish a metaphysics which will allow him to do this, Leclerc first seeks to demolish the Neoplatonic notion that all relations are set up by the mind, with its unfortunate consequence that the minima or monads are not related to each other in a way that would allow for the formation of organic wholes which are not mere heaps, but have some character as wholes (PN 146 - 47).

And from my Canadian perspective (in a country with the grand total of 35 million people, living in one of the world's largest land - masses) is respond compassionately — again paying attention to quotas and targets established by the powers that be, including absurd comedian characters like Trump.

The late Pope did more than any pope of the last century to defend and reassert beyond any doubt the stable and objective character of Catholic teaching - more even than Pius X with his great encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, since modernist incursions had become very much more powerfully established during the pontificate of the unhappy Pope Paul than they had been in the early years of the century.

Amos was preeminently the prophet of justice, the moral quality upon which Judaism at its moral best has placed its chief emphasis, and he established this as the major character of Yahweh in his dealings with men.

Established in 1993, Bon Bon Buddies provides own - brand character confectionery to over 40 countries worldwide, with eight dedicated European sales and logistics facilities with further distribution in Central Eastern Europe, China, South East Asia, the Middle East and the US.

He has established a recognisable house style which allows the quality of the fruit to shine through the depth of character that comes with ageing on lees.

The Jason J. Litton Award was established in 2009 and was created to honor great wine individuals with unique character — individuals as outstanding in their own way as the man for whom the award is named.

AVV quickly established a reputation for estate grown wines with distinctive varietal character.

(a) Is definitely true, because Wenger hates strong characters in the dressing room, and clearly avoids working with established successful professionals that might challenge him.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

Jeffery illustrates the history of MI6 with examples of some of the eccentric and louche characters who were either permanent or occasional members, but the real value of this history is to see the problem of how MI6 fitted into the established diplomatic and military hierarchies, the struggle to maintain a budget and the essential first and last principle of any secret service: that it is secret.

I can't offer a bias - free opinion on Klein's fate, but anyone who actually cares about sexual harassment should be concerned with establishing a fair policy and process for investigation that doesn't rely on character attacks.

The smart and tech - savvy kid characters of Earth to Echo, opening in theaters July 2, establish contact with an alien robot via texts.

This first photo is a great way to establish your personal style and character with your match.

Though there are several references to previously established characters and Eugene Levy reprises his role as Jim's dad, Band Camp has virtually nothing to do with any of its three predecessors and instead comes off as a typically bawdy sex comedy geared solely towards teens.

By the time Stiller's character engages in a slapping fight with a pair of monkeys, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian has incontrovertibly established itself as an endeavor designed to appeal solely to small children - which is undoubtedly a shame, given the strength of the cast and the promise of the movie's early scenes.

Director Ron Howard delivers an admittedly appealing opening stretch that effectively establishes Willow's fantastical world and raft of quirky characters, with, in terms of the latter, the movie certainly benefiting from Davis and Kilmer's thoroughly charming and affable work as the disparate protagonists (and it doesn't hurt, either, that the chemistry between the two couldn't be more solid).

As always action is gory and satisfying, and the new characters introduced this season fit in perfectly with the already established cast.

By the time the shocking (yet not entirely unexpected) conclusion rolls around, Breathe has established itself as a promising effort from an exciting new filmmaker - with Laurent's stylish sensibilities setting her apart from many of her contemporaries (ie it's impossible not to be captivated by an outdoor tracking shot that follows a character through the rooms of her small apartment).

Pacing is a problem for most pilots — so many characters to introduce, meaningful stakes to establish — but Quantico, from «Gossip Girl» producer Joshua Safran, does this effortlessly, with at least one deadly effective twist you won't see coming.

The film opens with the obligatory but mercifully brief happy family scenes where Pitt's character, Gerry Lane, is established as a stay - at - home Philadelphia dad who doesn't seem to do anything more strenuous than make pancakes for breakfast.

It has difficulty establishing momentum in its first few episodes, even with a smattering of intriguing subplots and story lines, and no one character exerts that intangible ability to make us keep watching.

It's ultimately clear that The Finest Hours is at its best in its relatively propulsive first half, as director Craig Gillespie, working from a script by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson, does a nice job of establishing the the central characters and the dangerous circumstances in which they find themselves - with the screenplay, which also emphasizes the ongoing exploits of Bernie's girlfriend (Holliday Grainger's Miriam), generally juggling the various narrative threads to seamless effect.

As for that key moment that sets up the final act, I thought the film established the character motivation adequately with the earlier scenes showing us Schultz's reaction to some of the violence against slaves.

Most of the film's first hour is concerned with establishing Cruise's character.

Such speeches function in Tarantino not as long - winded detours, but as a way of setting up characters and situations with dimensions it would be difficult to establish dramatically.

There's little doubt that Stone does an impressive job of authentically establishing the movie's cut - throat world of high finance right from the outset, as the filmmaker, along with coscreenwriter Stanley Weiser, offers up a blisteringly - paced narrative that rarely pauses to explain exactly what the central character does or how all of this works.

Clint Eastwood wisely chose a strong, simple thriller for his first film as a director (1971), and the project is remarkable in its self - effacing dedication to getting the craft right — to laying out the story, building the rhythm, putting the camera in the right place, and establishing small characters with a degree of conviction.

The director's verbal digressions (he's as much a motormouth as his characters are) usually serve purely to establish character depth, most notably in the gratuity debate in Reservoir Dogs (in his next life, Mr. Pink was reincarnated as a mediocre waiter) and the foot massage debate in Pulp Fiction which concludes with the meta - aside, «C'm on, let's get into character.»

The film also has some great random casting with established stars like Paul Rudd, William Baldwin and Jonah Hill taking small cameo roles and making their characters so quirky that they're not the stock supporting cast members you'd typically expect.

From what I understand Kathy Kennedy has been searching for female directors with pitch ideas for something new within the Star Wars universe, not focusing on an established character.

The developer then factors in game balance, how an established character will coexist with new ones, and the predefined characteristics of that character should be implemented with Smash Bros. gameplay systems.

You will work with the Art Director and a team of 2D and 3D artists to establish the direction for our character designs on upcoming projects;