The Summer-is-at-fault crew typifies the usual reading of characters in pop culture (see also: real life) where we're much more sympathetic to men than we are women, even if they're both in the wrong.
Brilliant, blessed with a photographic memory, the father was also a quick read of character, able to charm even the most cynical of men.
This is argued to be due, in part, to a more mature reading of the character's lines from Sylvia Anderson, who provided Penelope's voice from the first episode of the Thunderbirds television series.
Well that's the usual reading of the character.
The newspaper's unenthusiastic review of the show — "easy laughs," "facile" — nonetheless praised the Jones lad's "impudent and genial" reading of his character.
The moral complications of the Fazal plot prevent an easy reading of this character, and even of the larger story of the opium wars.
Throughout the play, it's when emotions rise to the proportions of myth and tragedy that her reading of the character feels thin.
I agree wholeheartedly on both and open my script to blow them away with my reading of the character Ray Say, the northern showbiz promoter who sees his own future sparkle in his discovery of Little Voice.
But the film deliberately leaves out his eccentricities, presumably to prevent the viewer attempting any glib psycho-analytic reading of his character, and has little to say about his religious or political ideas.
When I told people I was writing his biography in the late-Eighties, the one question I was constantly asked was, "Is he gay?" My answer was always that there was absolutely no evidence that he was, in any active way, and from my reading of his character I thought it unlikely.
