Donald Sutherland is such a powerful, mesmerizing and sinister character as President Snow, but, alas, his presence is all too brief.
Dark & blowing, snow, snow.
Round here they call these figures 'snow ghosts': pine trees, bowed down into sinister, hunched forms by the weight of snow that obscures bark and needles alike.
He always wore signature dark glasses, not because he wanted to appear sinister or intimidating, but because of the snow blindness that had damaged his eyes during wartime imprisonment in a Soviet labour camp.
A fox ventures forth to forage for berries on the snow-covered land, and a sinister line of starved black crows converges to attack him.
But Walt Disney's 1937 film, which took three years to make, is still sensational to look at and packs a sinister bite – you never forget the queen's wild-eyed old hag offering the gormless Snow White a poisoned apple or Snow White fleeing into the snarling forest – and "Heigh-Ho" is still the best marching-to-work song there is.
I noticed that Adams was listening closely to this seemingly featureless expanse, and kept pulling information from it: the fluttering of a flock of snow buntings, the low whistle of wind through a stand of gaunt spruce, the sinister whine of a pair of snowmobiles.
His boss, representing obscure but undoubtedly sinister corporate interests, is Charlize Theron, who is doing everything she can (in this movie and in "Snow White & the Huntsman") to make this an icy June at the movies.
You can tell he had never marched sinister-dexter like Auden's soldier along Hadrian's Wall in December nor mounted guard as the snow fell on a bleak river crossing in County Durham.
She promised half the novel by the summer to avoid "a sinister fate in your top-floor lock-up", applied to have electricity connected to her cottage, and settled down in the snow to work on nothing but fiction.
