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Why are people so impressed when an actor portrays a intoxicated lout who lacks self control?
The music portrays romanticism, and boldness, kind of like the westerns of days gone by.
In addition to being a great story about a little-depicted part of North America's history, Black Robe portrays with stark effect the wide gap in the way that white Europeans thought and acted compared to the way that native Americans thought and acted in the 17th Century.
I've read a lot of Lovecraft in my time and haven't seen a film yet that "accurately" portrays any of his "monsters" very well, except for perhaps this film.
This is I must say, a haunting film, as it excellently portrays the courage of a young lady who has to face her whole neighborhood upon the death of her young love, Billy Joe McAllister, who jumps into the Mississippi river and meets death.
Cultural mathematics might not be your thing, but in writer/director Moussa Sene Absa's 1994 film Ca Twiste a Popenguine, he portrays the influence of the American and French cultures upon the peoples of the town of Popenguine, Senegal during the mid-1960's.
It portrays a pair of tensed-up teens going to some weirdo to ask whether or not they should tie the knot.
Among the cast, Cary Grant is very-well cast it seems to me as the suave, womanizing and genial Nugent; he also portrays exasperation very nicely, and his reading of comedic one-liners is one of his best professional strengths.
Jeff Bridges' character he portrays is a cheerful, mind-mannered guy who dreamed of making these autos since his childhood.
Bruce Willis portrays Jack Mosley, a alcoholic cop who, after a long day of work, has to escort a prisoner to a trial for a testimony.
It's fitting that Corben Bernsen portrays a lawyer in this movie, since that's what I knew him best as (from L.A. Law), but I think he does a fine job in this movie.
Her hallucinations and the way her mind goes downhill is believable and the way things weren't always what they seemed, which disappoints the movie fan in you, really portrays something that could happen in the real world.
It realistically portrays the life of Indian upper-class youth and shows the urban and very modern India in the most precise way through the story of three close friends and their experiences.
A friend of mine told me that I simply don't understand the movie or the lifestyle it portrays because I'm not from LA.
Despite its exquisite illustration of the gloom, depravity, barbarity, and hatefulness harbored by the Taliban regime, possibly the most fundamentally misogynistic political government to have ever existed, I am unable to look away from how beautiful and talented the lead actress Marina Golbahari is, and how she exquisitely and tragically portrays her character, and how heartbreakingly beautiful it would be if, unlike last year with Keisha Castle-Hughes incredible oscar-nominated but not oscar-winning performance, Marina was nominated and actually won.
The film portrays all the actions aboard the three British cruisers but never shows what was occurring on the bridge of the Graf Spee.
Absa successfully and with a light heart humorously portrays the positive and negative effects and influence of Westernism and colonialism in this little community.
I have personal experience with autism, my sister and I had to leave the theater in the middle of the movie because it so accurately portrays the life of a family that has experience with autism.
Apart from the many differences mentioned above, this film doesn't seem to have a negative view of men (in Entre Nous, the male leads were all Neanderthals), but portrays the mother in the story as a self-absorbed woman whose kids seemed to be an afterthought--her new boy-toy was about 90% of her focus.
This film is awful, the film portrays the women with so many issues, you wonder how balanced she was.
For someone who is informed it's impossible to relate to the main character because of the exaggerated affects it portrays.
Mitchum portrays a smooth toughness and quiet desperation in Jeb, creating a perfect cinematic hero for all to easily rally behind.
Simon MacCorkindale portrays a Brit photographer who likes the media spotlight, but courageously offers to be "live bait"(..and is in the film's best sequence as the shark chows down on him with the camera recording this inside the mouth, really a remarkable effect)as a distraction for Quaid to complete the welding task without harm.
I have been an office temp, and this portrays the way I felt all too well.
Whilst the movie obviously portrays the incident to be the crash of an alien craft in New Mexico in 1947, the scene in which Martin Sheen and Kyle MacLachlan meet in the hangar I believe gives the viewer the opportunity to make up their own mind about that incident and other U.F.O.
I never knew that an office could feel so oppressive, and this film portrays it was successful accuracy.
Thematically, Karloff portrays a dedicated scientist whose goal is to benefit mankind through some type of medical experiment to prolong life.
In Hide and Seek, he portrays probably the worst psychiatrist/single father I've ever seen.
Andrea Corr, the lead actress whom played Mary, is a force to be reckoned with, she is incredible, she portrays her character so well, she IS her!!
Harry Barnett is highly engaging character, and John Thaw portrays him well, warts and all.
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