Sentences with phrase «writers know these characters»

The writers know these characters a bit better, so there able to have a little more fun this time around.

Not exact matches

Most writers spend countless hours brainstorming characters and plot, and they even write page after page that they know they'll never include in the book.

George R.R. Martin is known as a bloodthirsty writer, lopping the heads off your favorite A Song of Ice and Fire characters (sometimes quite literally) with a reckless abandon that barely gives you time to grieve before the next blood - spattered literary massacre.

Cary Burkett is an American radio broadcaster and former comic book writer best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Nemesis with artist Dan Spiegle.

Biblical writers have no doubt, of course, that God is eternally one God or that he is faithful to his own character.

Gooch's portrait of this major American writer, with its entertaining wealth of «Flannery» anecdotes from people who knew her in various capacities» family, neighbors, literary associates, spiritual advisors, admirers» depicts the kind of character for whom the phrase «an interesting person in her own right» was coined.

Dear Schmidt, I know that you're a fictional character pieced together by the writers of New Girl, and I know that I'm married and all, but we could have really awesome babies together.

And realistically — could the writers and producers ever create a character we as viewers would learn to love, knowing they only had one season to do so?

The writers know how to surprise and you genuinely feel for the characters and care what decisions you make.

Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the film at the festival, we know this is not true).

Writer - director Leslie McCleave knows how to stir the pot, dropping various weird or menacing characters in the couple's path, but by the end of the movie's 92 minutes it still isn't soup yet.

Oh, hell no, says Panther writer - director Ryan Coogler, whose rousing, thoughtful new movie — it's black and it's proud, and says it loud — leverages the classic appeal of Marvel characters in the service of his interest in social, political, and racial themes.

Hill, meanwhile, is a little less convincing — I kept seeing him as an eager college reporter, not an award - winning thirtysomething writer — but still solid, and his offscreen friendship with his co-star no doubt helps cement the believability of their characters» connection.

Compared to the Safdie brothers» Heaven Knows What, which similarly fictionalised writer / star Arielle Holmes» struggles with heroin abuse, there's little sense that we're in the cauldron with these characters.

And the show's writers, including TV veteran John Wirth, never met a bit part they couldn't turn into a memorable character who instantly lets you know who they are through a single line of dialogue.

The same can not be said for «The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,» where coasting is all there is, in the hopes that these charismatic and talented actors can somehow make tandoori chicken salad out of a screenplay (by returning writer Ol Parker, no longer tethered to the novel by Deborah Maggoch) that's chock - full of unmotivated action, half - baked characters, and lazily - constructed conflicts so contrived they'd get booted out of the «Two and a Half Men» writer's room.

The only times the comic was ever good was when there was a writer who knew that Hulk was inherently a one - trick character, and concentrated on the supporting characters for the interesting storylines, or made it a semi-comedic parody.

Hughes was a director and writer that really knew the importance of characters.

Well known for his total - immersion method of character acting, Daniel Day - Lewis takes on the challenge of his career in the role of Christy Brown, an acclaimed Irish writer and artist with cerebral palsy who is only able to control his left foot.

Dern said she developed the character's backstory with writer - director Rian Johnson, Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy, and producer Ram Bergman: «In their minds, and in their understanding of the origin story, we know that she was a true rebel in the Resistance, and in our culture we might have called her a hippie.»

The writers, directors, and talented voice cast know how to make the well - established Penguins characters both smart and funny.

I knew the writers had created this character but didn't really know what to do with her.

If you've seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi, then you know that the writer - director has no problem bumping off a beloved (or not - so - beloved) character when necessary.

The writer - director's adaptation also merges some characters — Â Colonel Stars and Lieutenant Stripes unite in the form of Jim Carrey's star - spangled - bat - wielding Colonel Stars, for example — Â and gets rid of others, streamlining the story fans already know from the paneled page into a much more palatable package.

Writer / Director Richard Starzak talked about the challenges of taking such well known characters not only... Read

Director Joseph Kosinski («Tron: Legacy,» «Oblivion») and writers Ken Nolan («Black Hawk Down») and Eric Warren Singer («American Hustle») set up characters we think we know, from Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin), the tough - but - fair superintendent who always seems to know more about fires than everyone around him; to Amanda (Jennifer Connelly), Eric's veterinarian wife who rescues horses and frets about her husband's safety while he's putting himself in harm's way; to Brendan (Miles Teller), a drug - using screw - up who tries to get his life together when a recent fling results in his becoming a dad.

There's something a little thrilling in watching how co - writer / director Sarah Smith and her team of animators at Aardman Studios (mostly known for their clay animation efforts — this one is entirely computer - animated but maintains the typical look of their traditional characters) imagine Santa embracing technology.

Make no mistake, the story is dumb and vaguely reprehensible, but writer - director Luke Greenfield («The Girl Next Door») and his cast know this, making no excuses for any of the characters.

«So I was fortunate enough to be in those early writers rooms with Chris [Markus] and Steve [McFeely] and Joe [Russo] and Anthony [Russo] when they were breaking Infinity War and Avengers 4, so I knew what was coming and knew that they had a really good reason for choosing the characters they did.

I don't really know how to feel about this totally unnecessary sequel but I have faith in the fact that original writer Taylor Sheridan had enough faith to go back in and continue the story of Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin's characters without the aid of prior leading lady Emily Blunt, director Denis Villeneuve and cinematographer Roger Deakins.

Writer / director McDonagh knows how to get good characters into a story but not always how to get them out of it.

The character is an icon among comic book aficionados but not well known to the general public, which may have hurt the film, but the problem lays more squarely with comic book artist / writer - turned - director Miller, whom makes his solo directing debut with this film.

British comedian Rowan Atkinson — best known for his silent Mr. Bean character — doesn't have much to do in writer / director Richard Curtis» episodic 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually.

Crossfire Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947, 35 mm, 86m This adaptation of writer / director - to - be Richard Brooks's novel The Brick Foxhole, about a group of vets, led by Robert Mitchum's Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar Washington for their amnesiac friend (George Cooper) so they can clear him of a murder charge, embodies the essence of what has come to be known as «film noir» — moody, troubled characters; nocturnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; low - key acting spiced with bits of bravura eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels like a nightmare.

Oscar - nominated writer - director Noah Baumbach is known as the creator of literate, personal films about characters in crisis.

Josh Radnor, probably best known for his continuing role in the TV sitcom How I Met Your Mother, is not only the writer - director of the semi-autobiographical Liberal Arts, but he also plays its main character, Jesse Fisher, a 35 - year - old New Yorker experiencing some sort of midlife crisis.

This is some of the best character work I've seen in any movie, featuring some of the best character actors, and with a writer / director team known for endless subtle touches, it's a film you can watch again and again, and never tire of.

In this regard, the film achieves a certain success, as writer - director - creator Malcolm D. Lee (Undercover Brother, Scary Movie V) knows these characters inside and out, and gives each actor plenty of depth to work with.

Two characters known only as Man (Ed Harris) and Woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) turn up separately at the house, at first seemingly merely lost but it soon becomes clear they're fans of His work and that Man is sick, wanting to see the writer before he died.

Fans will already know the character's secret identity, but the drama inherent in that set - up is never engaged with especially, because the Winter Soldier Is essentially wordless, and mostly brainwashed (between this and Hawkeye in «The Avengers,» Marvel writers should be banned from using that as a plot device at this point).

Created by writer Mike Friedrich and writer - artist Jim Starlin, the character first appeared in 1973's Iron Man # 55 but became more well - known in the classic 1991 miniseries Infinity Gauntlet.

Kloves is best known as a writer - director himself, with films such as The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) and Flesh and Bone (1993), quiet, intelligent films that allowed for rich character development and top - notch performances.

Big props to Aussie writer and director Ben Lewin, whose script gives every single character, no matter how small, a meaningful contribution to the film and backs it up with restrained but beautiful direction.

Once I saw from the individual drafts that students really knew their characters, I put them in groups (women of the revolution, generals, sons of liberty, famous writers of the period, etc.), and they combined their scripts into just ten pages in a Google Doc.

In A Call to Character: A Family Treasury, two award - winning writers also known for their work as teacher - educators, Colin Greer and Herbert Kohl, have collected almost 200 pieces of writing that they believe celebrate the values that go into building cCharacter: A Family Treasury, two award - winning writers also known for their work as teacher - educators, Colin Greer and Herbert Kohl, have collected almost 200 pieces of writing that they believe celebrate the values that go into building charactercharacter.

After we know what we expect of each other from a writing conference, it can be fun to model «good» and «bad» conferences in a fishbowl, having students practice with each other and, sometimes, assign roles («responder» and «student») or even characters (didactic responder and mutuality - driven writer).

Fans can also put their knowledge of the writer's works to the test by taking part in a book quiz to see how much they really know about their Roald Dahl stories and characters as well as uncover which Roald Dahl hero they are most like.

From the very beginning the personalities of the characters and the texture of the book's settings leap out from the pages and like the rest of the trilogy, McCarthy hits his stride cleanly and effortlessly from the very beginning and this author easily eclipses (for me anyway) many more fashionable and better known writers.

This is undoubtedly due to Siregar's willingness to write and rewrite until each chapter feels just right to him... As a reader, I was left with absolute confidence that this writer knows his world and characters inside out...

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