Sentence examples for took a character from inspiring English sources

It took a character three days to get the answer to this question "Where have you been".

It took a character that's completely full of shit to start with, then added a whole other layer of full of shit-ness, a double dose".

Last year he took a character with all Bond's primary characteristics - Thomas Crown - and infused him with sexual neuroses, identity crises and a deeply ambiguous personal morality.

As a young writer, Cameron borrowed a trick from Walter Hill, who, working on the outer-space horror movie "Alien," took a character (a young ensign named Ripley) that was originally male and, with minimal revision, made the character female.

In Big Eyes, Tim Burton's film about the artist Margaret Keane, she took a character who could easily have been depicted as a passive victim of a controlling husband and instead gave a skilfully multi-layered performance, conveying Keane's fear, strength and artistic passion.

In 1941 Holloway took a character part in Gabriel Pascal's film of Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, in which he played a policeman.

But would the Academy normally take a character role in a summer superhero blockbuster so seriously?

"I could outline a plot, take a character from Point A to Point B, but the interior life — the emotional underpinnings that account for behavior — eluded me".

"Lucy is the first time I've taken a character who is totally normal at the beginning of the film.

She's taken a character from that play about a family of American radicals, the gritty grandmother Vera, and placed her in another story that takes place a decade later.

Another long-term goal of mine has been to take a character from a naturalistic story and travel with her into a different genre.