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Duvall and Close portray common people, and you'd never even realize they are now big-name actors.
It is a powerful statement of the divisions of our people over small issues, and our failings to recognise the bigger picture and the need to unite in order to make a difference... Despite its reference to the black community, all viewers can learn something from the message this film seeks to portray.
Apparently, they wanted to portray teens in a positive light at a time when the screen was filled with "juvenile delinquents".
Never have i ever seen someone portray Rose with such vibrancy!
I think there was some miscasting in having her portray a British upper-crust lady.
However, he managed to get an amazing ensemble cast to portray the characters of his story.
Unfortunately I have not seen the last minutes of this shocking and authentic portray of the archaic structures that still reign in the relationship between women and men, but what I have seen convincingly analyzed the repertoire of discrimination.
The ending was also good, as it did not portray women as unreal, helpless, virginal romantics in contrast to many Hollywood movies.
Stragely, all but the Mexican director chose to portray the problems of individuals or groups in connection with 9-11: the Afghan refugees, deaf people, Palestinians, the widows of Srebrenica, AIDS and poverty and corruption in Africa, Pinochets coup and ensuing bloodbath, suicide bombings in Israel, paranoia-hit and state-persecuted Muslim Americans in the USA, old people living alone, and the aftermath of WWII in the hearts of Asian soldiers.
One of the first movies to portray the psychological desolation of death row.
It is produced in such an exquisite manner and the actors portray their roles excellently.
Endgame portray him as a husband married to an "organic", inventing neuro-implant transceiver for human-machine interface, and even -- in the episode before Endgame, to disobey Captain's order and make "human" mistakes.
Actually they could not have chosen a better diversified actor to portray Little Richard than Leon.
How true it is to what really happened I have no idea, but it did portray why people sometimes become what they do.
I think the tendency would be to portray Bettie Page as some sort of sex vixen, like a Jayne Mansfield.
I had never seen him portray an upper-class Brit until this movie.
They pretend that this is to educate people, but sadly what they portray are little people parents who would rather put their kids to work than support them.
Hollywood loves to portray kids as angels.
Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane portray two legendary baseball heroes like they grew up watching them play and play.
you were better off just reading the series and interpret that from your own imagination.. the actors that were supposed to portray cathy and chris appeared to be in their late 20's at didnt give the effect of being young, as they were supposed to be teenagers.
The acting is about as good as acting can be: Arthur Shields (as Donkey Man) and Thomas Mitchell (as Aloysius Driscoll) never waver in the characters they portray.
The film attempts to portray a dark period of English history and this is convincingly portrayed in the atmosphere, costume and make up of the actors but by adopting a light hearted portrayal of a serious character, he manages to balance just the right amount of comic relief.
James Taylor and Dennis Wilson portray two car fanatics on the roads of America racing their custom '55 Chevy.
This is perhaps the best role I have seen Salma Hayek portray.
The always reliable Stockard Channing is also featured as her snobbish sister and Sam Waterston is charming as a man Alley gets involved with but this is Alley's movie and she forsakes any pretense of glamor to realistically portray an unsympathetic character in a difficult situation who somehow still manages to make us feel for her even though we know that a lot of what this woman does and feels is just wrong.
He doesn't understand how to portray the actors properly... (both Chevalier and MacDonald look absolutely terrible at times)... their acting is unbelievable as well as the manner in which they handle the songs... they amade by Paramount in which she sings "Love Me Tonight" .. this short sequence is better than any musical sequence in the actual film) I don't understand why people praise "Mamoulian" so much... he was a terrible director..
He portray's his character, a somewhat eccentric, isolated writer, in his typically quirky manner.
Why do male screenwriters decide to portray us like this anyway?
Plus for commercial success the all-star cast makes it watchable as each portray interesting characters with different attitudes who's lives intersect with a CD-ROM.
Apparently, the movie was "about" 9-11, and if the point was to portray the feeling of pointlessness and futility that many of us felt after the attacks; mission accomplished.
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