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I can see why he was picked to portray the same strong and quiet Will Kane that Gary Cooper portrayed in the original.
Ergo, gangsters are fascists, and, double ergo, films which portray gangsters without a wagging finger are also fascist.
Gene Tierney doesn't have to do much here, she is asked to portray confusion and delivers well enough, whilst José Ferrer is more than adequate for the dastardly role of David Korvo.
Each cast member should be awarded an Oscar for how real they portray this sad set of characters.
However, it is a story about love that doesn't shy away from a reality of true love that few dare to portray - pain, sacrifice and possibly doing the wrong thing.
Everything looks very vintage mechanical, similar to what films like 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' portray with their technology.
Li's characters often portray the martial arts code of honor very well.
Part of their routine on-stage was to do a piece called "The Mommies" in which they would portray two women folding clothes at a table and complaining about their husbands and children.
(Performances???) This series, in which each episode runs less than a half hour, and in which uses up nearly four and a half minutes for head titles and end credits over live action, tends to appear historically incorrect, or shall we say inaccurate, in its pretense to portray popular celebs of the day.
Ursula Andress in her part goes beyond her glamorous looks to portray a woman who is truly out for her own best interests at everyone's expense.
Most films about the settling of the west portray women as either saloon girls--in other words, prostitutes--or virginal school'marm types.
Lenny Bruce had only been dead for eight years when Hoffman portrayed him on the big screen so much of the audience knew Bruce fairly fresh in their memories so to portray a contemporary figure of Bruce's genius and legend was not an easy role for Hoffman to step into but his portrayal of the doomed and controversial comic is compelling.
I daresay if a new, lighthearted detective show attempted to portray a character with, say, no legs, the subject would be taken a bit more seriously.
It is simply an attempt to portray as objectively as possible the impacts that certain social issues have on society, including: poverty, child abuse, divorce, addiction, spousal infidelity, anger, revenge, and unforgiveness.
In the first part of the film, obviously wholly lacking in any meaningful direction, she tries to portray the flighty young Anne but does so as a 2008 girl, complete with the same knowing looks and arrogant insouciance you would expect to find in that wonderful satire 'Clueless' (1995), rather than in a period drama.
The Marines that this film pretends to portray were acquitted of all charges, but the film doesn't take this into account as it was produced prior to the situation being resolved.
These men do an honorable job and to portray them in this light is simply pissing on the freedom that they purchase for us with their blood.
It does not make the faithful out to be angels nor does it portray the non-believers as demons.
Why Singleton chose to portray all of these African-Americans in the 'hood as dim, shallow, dishonest, foul-mouthed, materialistic, sexually amoral and completely irresponsible is beyond me.
In this uninspired, made-for-television, buddy picture, James Whitmore, Jr., and Tom Selleck portray two U.S. Army/Air Force officers ordered to destroy a winery in France that conceals a laboratory for the development of a lethal toxin that could wipe out half of the world in six months.
While it only scratches the surface of the many life experiences we face in our lives as lesbians, it is a real eye-opener for people who imagine us to be as outlandish and stereotypical as the media would sometimes portray us.
The director (Jean Jacques Annaud) got himself into a confused mess when trying to make this good versus evil movie - he's comfortable depicting all Nazis as bad but he can't depict all Soviets as good and tries instead to portray a complex grey area.
The love stories here supercede form and attain a thematic content worthy of the great literary works they portray.
This movie did NOT portray the real Selena nor her family.
The two talented young actors very authentically portray the intensity and passion of the modern-day Romeo and Juliet.
Even though Carrie's part was small, she continued to be impressive with her subtle portrayal of a character difficult to portray, in that it was a character that could easily be "overdone."
Of course it is the longest such film ever made at over 30 hours, which gives director Dan Curtis the time to portray everything of Herman Wouk's book.
ELECTRIC SHADOWS is a marvelous mix of drama, comedy and tragedy with several young children in leading roles who effectively portray the innocence and delight of childhood.
The movie did not portray most of the characters in a believably authentic manner, although the Hackman character for the first 90% of the picture was fascinating.
This movie has an interesting premise, but it ultimately fails because of poor character development and the unappealing actors who portray them.
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