Quick Plot: Arlen gets exiled from society and gets sent to a wasteland in Texas where she has been stamped a bad batch. The Bad Batch isn’t so much a film that is driven by plot, it’s more driven by its world. Majority of the time you find the film exploring this wasteland through the character’s eyes. The plot doesn’t really kick in until around the halfway point, but even then the film moves along slowly. In the wrong hands The Bad Batch could end up being an endurance test, but like life itself Ana Lily Amirpour finds a way. Ana Lily Amirpour introduced herself to the world with her first film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. That film had a very similar vibe to The Bad Batch. Both films are more about mood and the world then actually A to B plot. In many ways you live in them, not really follow them. From the very beginning we …show more content…
By far my favorite is the Hermit played brilliantly in a wordless performance by Jim Carry. He’s the most fascinating character and tragic character. He gives an entirely physical performance. You get a real sense of a fully formed character through the performance. Suki Waterhouse plays the films heroine. Like a lot of the characters in the film, she’s complicated. You feel bad for her because in the beginning of the film her arm and leg get cut off but on the other hand you can’t justify her actions. Strangely the character that might have the most dialogue is the character that doesn’t have that much screen time, Keanu Reeves is great as The Dream. In any other film he would be the bad guy, but he’s actually the best character on a moral level. He does not eat or kill people like some of the other characters. Jason Momoa plays one of the bodybuilding cannibals named Miami Man. Like Suki Waterhouse he’s a complicated character. In one scene he’s a good father and the next he’s eating someone. He’s very much the stoic badass type in this
Hasselstrom finally decides that she carries a gun because she has suffered many harassments. Initially, when Hasselstrom is camping with her friend, they have to move to an illegal spot because there are two drunk men are drinking and talking loudly about what to do to Hasselstrom and her friend in the dark. Hasselstrom calls for help on the street, but no one helps them. No one suspects that the two men are going to do anything. After that, Hass...
The rest of the cast is impeccable (extra points to Luca Calvani, who is delicious and Hugh Grant, always a pleasure to watch). And as I have already said it is, literally, one of the most visually impressive, elegant and stunning films ever made - it is like watching a work of lovingly-crafted 1960's period
The production focuses on a set of teenagers who are friends with Allison, who surreptitiously convinces her friends to share their secrets, thus developing her loyalty to them. Once Allison disappeared, she left a mystery of who was responsible for her disappearance, dragging her friends into her dark secrets. Her body is later found, and the girls, who drifted apart after Allison went missing, start to reconnect, but their troubles are only beginning. After the funeral, all four of the girls receive messages from a stoker who calls himself or herself 'A'. ‘A' exposes many of the girl's dark secrets that only Allison knew of, leading the girls to wonder if Allison might be alive after all. ‘A' causes trouble for the girls and intervenes in their life, threatening not only their lives, but also the lives of those around them. On the road to discovering who ‘A' is, the girls come across numerous clues that incriminate people that they trust and love. Many citizens of the town seem involved in the mystery of their friend's death, making the entire town seem like a place of danger and discomfort.
As a result of her mother’s incarceration, Astrid is thrusted into a myriad of unmerited situations- the foster homes. One evil stepmother leads to another in this tale of adversity and just when Astrid’s prospects brighten under a shining sun, the clouds roll in and it begins to rain. “White Oleander” is a Cinderella story with all the ingredients of misery and misfortune but the wrong ending.
In contrast to the powerful Robert Neville is the young and innocent, 16 year old Ann Burden. She too suffers from the reality that she may be the only person left alive on the face of the earth. Unlike Robert who lives in the city, Ann lives out on a small farm property in the countryside of America; which is a short distance from the local town, Ogdentown. It was to this town her family ventured in search of life and supplies, but never returned. Luckily Ann is self-sufficient and is able to run her f...
The Bundren family has recently suffered the loss of their most beloved mother, Addie. When Addie was young and fresh out of labor with her second of five children, she made her husband promise that when she died he would burry her in Jefferson, the town where Addie’s family lived. Generally Jefferson was a one or two day trip, but when a rain spell floods the river and destroys both bridges and washes out the direct road to Jefferson, Anse, Addie’s husband has to ford the river and take a much longer route to get to Jefferson. While crossing the river, a large log flowing downstream starts a chain reaction that results in a badly battered wagon, the death of a team of mules, a broken leg for the oldest of the five children, and a one-day delay in the journey. Many other troubles follow this family and the short trip to bury their mother becomes a nine-day journey with a dead body that is beginning to rot in the back of the wagon.
Lead characters Gweneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes were impeccably fitting for their roles and did a great job. While supporting actor Ben Affleck, has an unforgettable ego and although Afleck too, did a good job, I was a bit disappointed that his accent was so shabby, if you will. Colin Firth played the obnoxious and arrogant suitor, Earl of Wessex and in a very admirable performance Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth. It is my opinion that the cast was fantastically chosen. Miramax and the casting manager, Michelle Guish does an incredible job and hits the nail on the head with the matching actors for the dynamic roles.
The character I chose was Phil Connor from ground hog day and his behavior. I used
...her father’s intense racism and discrimination so she hid the relationship at all costs. Connie realized that she could never marry an African American man because of her father’s racial intolerance. If she were to have a mixed child, that child would be greatly discriminated against because of hypodecent. One day, Connie’s dad heard rumors about her relationship so he drove her car to the middle of nowhere, and tore it apart. Then, he took his shotgun and went to look for Connie and her boyfriend. Connie was warned before her father found her, and she was forced to leave town for over six months. Connie’s father burned her clothes, so she had to leave town with no car, no clothes and no money at sixteen years old. Connie had lived in poverty her entire life, but when she got kicked out she learned to live with no shelter and sometimes no food at all.
Right off the bat, the acting in this movie is amazing. Many of the actors in
My favorite character (and yours too) is John Bender, the criminal, as portrayed by Judd Nelson, the leader of the notorious Hollywood Brat Pack. John is the main character in the movie and functions as the catalyst or the instigator. One by one, he shocks and exposes each student's insecurities. John is living proof of the creed, "If a child lives with hostility, He learns to ...
the most enjoyable character is due to his laughable personality. All of these aspects of Sir
“The Misfit”, an escaped serial killer in Georgia, is brought into the plot when the grandmother attempts to manipulate her family into heading north to Tennessee instead of south to Florida. "Here this
Out of all of the characters in the movie, I thought that Daniel Ruiz, portrayed by Michael Peña, was the most likeable and that you get to see and understand more of his background and personal life compared
This is a movie about a professional killer, or "Cleaner", named Léon played by Jean Reno, and his unlikely interaction with a 12-year old girl, Mathilda played by Natalie Portman. Mathilda's family is murdered by corrupt Drug Enforcement Agents (DEA) lead by Agent Stansfield played by Gary Oldman. Agent Stansfield, is portrayed as a drug addict, mentally unstable and an overtly violent and corrupt law enforcement team leader.