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The black-and-white, somewhat grainy texture perfectly captures the mood that the segment is trying to portray.
Because it is not a given that a 1941 movie tries to portray both the US-American cavalryman and Native American leader Chief Crazy Horse (Anthony Quinn) in a favorable light.
It took courage and finesse to portray both the Establishment and the Anti-establishment as the caricatures they often closely approximated in real life.
He kept the narrative simple to comprehend and made sure all the actors are true to the characters that they are supposed to portray.
The other lead, who plays the head scientist, is also fairly good, but somehow not brilliant enough to portray the huge angst that goes with the part - the immense responsibility for creation of an ultimate machine of death and destruction.
This movie is amazing because the fact that the real people portray themselves and their real life experience and do such a good job it's like they're almost living the past over again.
The use of outtakes from Battle of Britain (a film that does not nearly so well portray the 1940s!) enhances, rather than detracts from the whole.
Olen Ray has said that everyone involved in this film had great fun and this transfers onto the film.I dare you to criticize a film that allows itself to portray futuristic Earth as eternally dark and neon-lit and then ends in a 'pipes and valves' warehouse.
They portray it very well and very realistically.
Some reviewers and fans whose pieces I've read seem a bit dismayed at having such a young actor portray someone who must by now be over a 1000 old, but I disagree.
Not only did the show portray race relations in a straightforward manner that seems unmatched by any other television series, but its ability to depict this subject matter as it existed in the 1960's alongside how it exists in the beginning of the twenty-first century powerfully demonstrates the ways we have changed, and sadly, the many more ways we have not.
The actors that portray Prince Arthur and Princess Eloise are okay too, but Abbott and Costello are the best.
I really felt for both characters that Morgan Hallett and Elizabeth Franz portray in this film.
Its very tough to portray a Tagore novel along cinematographic lines.And if you forget an obscure production of 1967 then its the first time that chokher bali has been done on a grand scale.
Stewart's Lindberg is so gosh-darn, all-American, apple-pie likable that you get caught up in the story, and you realize that Stewart intended to portray Lindberg with all of the aw-shucks, Yankee-know-how he could muster up.
Sarandon was just the right actress to portray Adele and after leaving the theater I could not think of another actress in the role.
Scores of movies portray the victims of Nazi atrocities before and during the war, but, I don't think any of them have delved into the psyche of the victim and predator as well as this this one has.
He had the ability to portray the humblest of creatures devoid of any human vises to a creature of extreme animalism and pull it off as believable to the audiences who watched with no afterthought of what they had just witnessed!
I will write at least 6 or 7 but i feel that i can portray my point with fewer than ten.
Not only does it portray war, it also has friendship & love.
This is not a great film, but it does effectively portray an intense moral dilemma against the backdrop of a harsh and frigid Soviet wilderness.
I love the story, but I also have great respect for Selleck's performance; he bares his tush (literally) to portray an ugly American, insulting people and throwing tantrums in public, then lets us inside this character to understand his dismay.
It disregards the religious values of its audience while attempting to portray an asinine version of their fulfillment.
I don't know whether this grows out of type-casting or simply his demeanor, but I doubt Glover could ever portray a convincing villain.
Are they attempting to portray animal rights activists as sick monsters?
But the book--a slow-burning, noir thriller with lots of pulp--should have translated into an Oscar-contending film instead of this dud that couldn't figure out whether it should faithfully portray the hard-boiled, gritty crime story of the book, or opt for a 1980s Schwarzenegger shoot-em-up spree.
All the characters were intensely unappealing, although I must say they did a great job of casting equally unappealing actors to portray them.
Amitabh was alright.. the director wanted to portray how evil his character is but he went a bit overboard which resulted in it being forceful.
It is worth watching to understand the fact that Movies reflect how we feel about the issues when they are produced and not about the period of time they portray.
Phillipe normally the cool character as in Cruel Intentions and Way of the Gun but in this he's supposed to be a bumbling hero which he attempts to portray by slipping when he's running and having geeky friends, but he just doesn't look right.
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