He's a big bear of a man, fuzzy and round, with obvious health issues — as the movie goes on, he uses a cane, crutches, a wheelchair and a motorized cart to get around — and a sympathetic screen presence.
Mr. Gere is predictably fun to watch, but his beauty and long-cultivated sympathetic screen presence make it harder for Mr. Jarecki to create the complexity that he's after.
She and Ms. Tomei are sympathetic, likable screen presences, but there isn't much for them to do except smile indulgently at, and be upstaged by, men and children alike.
Analysts also say that William Ford, the slave owner played by Benedict Cumberbatch (who has slavery issues in the family closet), has also been rendered less sympathetic on screen than he was in the book.
The editor later said he was worried I wasn't sympathetic enough on screen; Ken kept that from me for a long time.
You can't write "be sympathetic" in a screen direction – that has to come naturally to an actor, and Radcliffe has this in spades.
The show, "El Equipo" ("The Team"), does not try to resolve the contradiction between what citizens here think of their police — incompetent at best, criminal collaborators at worst — and a sympathetic portrayal on screen.
Seeing as this family is weighing up whether to sell off their private jet, we arguably need a closer point of identification; this humble pooch, balefully observing his masters' follies, will for a while be the most sympathetic presence on screen.
The fact that, like Facebook, it is a household name around the world also guarantees a global audience for a movie about its ascent.Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's co-founders, will no doubt be hoping they get more sympathetic treatment on screen than Mr Zuckerberg, who is played by Jesse Eisenberg.
Glenn McGee, a University of Pennsylvania ethicist who is more sympathetic to prenatal screening, agrees with her that the system offers too little support for parents who might want to keep an "imperfect" baby.
It would be possible for audiences to find the screen Assange sympathetic.
