The firm's elderly boss, despite bearing a strong resemblance to one of the villains in Hollywood's earlier and more characteristic black-guy-enters-finance classic, "Trading Places", turns out to be an amiable chap who borrows Mr Gardner's last $5 inadvertently, and later repays the debt without being asked.Promotion at the firm is on merit.
"Sometimes when you have to get to the track at 6 30 in the morning, it takes certain characteristics for guys to be able to joke around".
"Through this experience in teaching I became fascinated in understanding the characteristics of guys in tech and what made them so good at what they do.
"It's a big ensemble so you're looking for unique people who will really stand out," Linklater said at the screening, noting that bringing out "the individual characteristics of each guy... is the fun part and the challenge".
But Spike is such a mild-mannered and softly spoken guy, a characteristic magnified by the naturally gentle lilt of his Cork accent, that when he makes such intimidating statements, the menace literally drips from his words.
You can, undoubtedly, create a female monster that is a projection of male contempt for women: Fatal Attraction, in which the "evil" woman's defining characteristic is liking a guy she hooked up with, or Psycho, which is one long Freudian treatise on overbearing mothers.
He always had a joke for the pastor in the handshake line, often a slapstick pun characteristic of an older guy who didn't mind being corny.
One distinguishing characteristic: All of these guys are wealthy.
He hadn't done any films yet, and I was looking for certain characteristics: I wanted a guy who didn't look like the "Grease" version of the '50s but like a true '50s man, like the guys I grew up with.
You can customize your guy's physical characteristics to your heart's content (you can even create your own mask!) as well as their move-set.
Mitt Romney, eager to burnish his tough guy credentials, offered a characteristic semantic dodge: "Enhanced interrogation techniques have to be used.
