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To borrow a concept from my country's CIA, it helps you to soften up your audience.
If we can feather the edges, soften those edges so we can control diffraction, well then we can see a planet, and in the last 10 years or so we've come up with optimal solutions for doing that.
So they're going to put pressure on these soldiers, military police, to cross the line, give them permission to break the will of the enemy, to prepare them for interrogation, to soften them up, to take the gloves off.
I don't know about the real Cobb but I got the distinct impression that the filmmakers' aim was to try to soften his jagged edges and reputation, not give us a true portrait of the man himself.
Ted Danson is too young as MTM's husband and usually gives off a slightly creepy appeal unless he has an acting partner who can soften it.
I,m praying and hoping that the hearts of these families will be soften and let the world see this great movie again.
But for awhile, the smaller studios were producing movies about teenagers that wasn't toned downed or soften for the kiddies.
This story of a mixed-race love affair was quite a daring theme for the fifties, and, as it often did, Hollywood tried to soften the blow by casting a white actress as the supposedly non-Caucasian woman who falls in love with a white man, something that would be regarded as politically incorrect today but was quite acceptable then.. (Think, for example, of the casting of Ava Gardner in "Show Boat" or Natalie Wood in "West Side Story") The setting of the story in a British colony was also perhaps a way of exploring racial issues in a way that would cause less controversy in America.
I did get to like the character of Kate by the end of the film as she seemed to soften and become a little more realistic by the end, the character played by Jeremy Sheffield was not actually needed for this film and I think the director/writer got carried away with the myriad of characters used for no purpose, if he had left it at the basic characters making it more of a solo effort on Kate's part, it may have worked - Jeremy's acting was wooden to say the least and I felt uncomfortable watching the bad on screen chemistry - or lack of it.
Even though the film tries to soften some of Effie's harder edges to make her more likable, the charges still stand.
These critics want to take a look at some of the stuff he's doing these days, and maybe soften their stance in retrospect... "The Golden Child" is not highbrow entertainment, but thanks to some of the cast it breaths new life into old clichés, and gives Murphy one of his best roles.
If you fear you can't, just wait a few years for the inevitable American remake which will unquestionably soften the premise a little.
He doesn't have a meaty role, but serves to soften Jeff's hard edges.
Plenty of wisecracks at the beginning, but the characters soften up as the film progresses.
To top it off there is some funny dialogue by the old ladies in this film to soften the serious tone.
She is sent to live with her grandmother, where relatives tame her wild hair, soften her coarse skin, but can't do anything about her spirit.
While revisionists have tried to make atrocities forgotten in their quest for political correctness, this film doesn't soften the ruthlessness of the Japanese forces.
Many "popular" films noirs have a certain degree of romantic interest (Bogart & Bacall, or Ladd and Lake)to soften the violent elements.
it will soften even the hardest of hearts.
So i think that it is bullshit, trying to soften the viewer, by showing this 14 year old putted to death, cause it will never happen in a normal country.
It is rare to watch a movie where the makers do not attempt to soften the ending, especially if the main character is as utterly repellant as is the eponymous individual of this film played by Paul Bettany and Malcolm McDowell.
There are no vox pops to add light entertainment, no colourful graphics, no sense of theatre, no narrator to soften the blows of the stark reality in the experts' words.
Rather, North Korea seems to be posing a non-existent united front in order to put pressure on the US to soften its stance toward the DPRK regarding its nuclear program and human-rights record, and to reconsider economic sanctions against the North.
Or perhaps it was attempting to determine whether its overtures had led South Korea to soften its stance toward the DPRK.
To soften the blow, governments urgently need to pursue labor-market reforms and overhaul their education systems, starting with technical and vocational education and training (TVET).
If Muslims wish to maintain a central role for Sharia in Nigeria, then they must find ways to soften its rough edges and turn it against official wrong-doers.
European leaders, eager to deter other member states from following suit, may be in no mood to offer the UK terms – particularly concerning access to Europe’s single market – that would soften the pain of leaving.
Long-term development may give countries more capacity to soften the impact of climate change on the environment and citizens’ health, but in the meantime the planet’s poorest people will need help from the rich.
And his counterpart at the European Parliament, Klaus Welle, has shown no sign that he will relinquish his position or soften his ambition to win still greater powers for the parliament.
Indeed, the US is already trying to soften up Iranian resistance by hinting at a possible use of force.
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