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James Cameron, writer and director of Avatar, at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con. The 2009 American science fiction film Avatar has provoked vigorous discussion of a wide variety of cultural, social, political, and religious themes identified by critics and commentators, and the film's writer and director James Cameron has responded that he hoped to create an emotional reaction and to provoke ...
Mad Love – 1995 – character of Casey Roberts played by Drew Barrymore [12] Fear – 1996 – character of David McCall played by Mark Wahlberg [12] Girl, Interrupted – 1999 – character of Susanna Kaysen played by Winona Ryder [14] Thirteen – 2003 – characters of Evie and Tracy played by Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood respectively. [15]
The LA Times called it "a religious pamphlet with actors", saying that the script "plays like a first draft, one written from a manual and riddled with two-dimensional characters and on-the-nose dialogue." [2] On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 40% based on 5 reviews, and an average rating of 5.8/10 ...
This movie is based on the 2013 book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber, which chronicles the crimes of Cullen, a real-life convicted serial killer ...
Based on Jessica Bruder’s 2017 nonfiction book of the same name, the Chloe Zhao-directed film delivers a unique perspective on a very real community of older Americans who, after the Great ...
Some Japanese films feature themes from Shinto religion or characters based on kami. [7] This is especially the case in animated films, such as Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away, [7] but can also be seen in other films. The Three Treasures (1959) features several gods, including Amaterasu, Izanagi and others as characters. [8]
In Carlos Diegues' 2003 movie Deus é Brasileiro, God is a down-to-Earth character, exhausted from his labours, who is resting in the northeast of Brazil. [2] God as a character is often mentioned or intervenes in the plot of the CW show Supernatural, and eventually served as the series' ultimate villain. He seems as a loving, smart, serious ...
Some characters that were first introduced as fully fleshed-out characters become subsequently used as stock characters in other works (e.g., the Ebenezer Scrooge character from A Christmas Carol, upon whom the miserly Scrooge type is based). Some stock characters incorporate more than one stock character; for example, a bard may also be a ...