Sentences with phrase «fiction elements in»
Fiction Elements in Hatchet Submitted by Iylene Dew Students create PowerPoint Presentations as they read Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen.
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Growing cells in Petri dishes sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but the basic elements of the science are actually decades old.
Fortunately, the redemptive element in Cheever's fiction lies elsewhere than in such alternately sappy and searing visions.
«Hunger, poverty, poor health, fear, violence and lack of freedoms are not just elements of fiction, but daily realities in our world.
In short, don't attempt to construct a theological system from his fiction literature, for it contains many elements which were never intended to be Christian.
Science fiction elements are subtly introduced, weaved in with the characterisation and realpolitik, and...
He sees the vital ingredient of SF as otherness: «A true science fiction story has as its keystone an imaginative element which can not be properly expounded in any other literary form.»
Most of the games in the Final Fantasy series have elements of science fiction.
It may not contain any elements of «hard science - fiction» but it is no less a science - fiction films than the classic films I mentioned in my review.
It plays like a response to the age of fan theories and puzzle box fiction, in which stories are set up to be pieced together, with every element eventually snapping into place.
And those novels, just like novels in genres like science fiction and mystery, share common elements but vary in quality, depending on how well they're written.
In any other fictional film if you have bad characters, underdeveloped elements, and sloppy narrative you simply get a bad piece of fiction.
The original «Star Wars,» which blasted into theaters in 1977, went through several iterations playing with elements of science fiction, soap opera, and Westerns.
Many of the elements that made Pulp Fiction such a memorable experience are present in Seven Psychopaths, at least during the first 1 1/4 hours: witty dialogue, humor derived from brutality, bursts of violence, and Christopher Walken.
Netflix staged one of the most anticipated events of this summer's Television Critics Association press tour: A panel on Stranger Things, the throwback thriller that channels elements of 1980s horror and science - fiction cinema to depict the mysterious happenings in and around a small Midwestern town in 1983.
It was a huge catchphrase among science fiction authors and readers back in the 1990s, denoting strange works of fiction that blend realism and fantastical elements.
However in the hands of writer / director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, In Time), the result is occasionally challenging, dealing with both the science fiction elements and the teen angst at the heart of the storin the hands of writer / director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, In Time), the result is occasionally challenging, dealing with both the science fiction elements and the teen angst at the heart of the storIn Time), the result is occasionally challenging, dealing with both the science fiction elements and the teen angst at the heart of the story.
In its swirl of violence and emotion, the new movie feels like a summation of those two most recent pictures, even as it braids together settings and story elements from Jia's earlier films «Unknown Pleasures» (2002) and «Still Life» (2008), his surreally tinged docu - fiction about the incalculable impact of the Three Gorges Dam project.
Neon takes some pretty big liberties of its own by mixing in science fiction elements and characters, ample humor, and a neon - drenched eighties vibe that even the original 1987 game lacked.
Sci - fi fans — Doom is definitely science fiction in that it is set in the future, has space travel and other futuristic elements, and advanced technology, but it isn't really appealing to science fiction geeks in the way that another best - selling video game, «Half Life», is.
Goya's Ghosts (2006) Mixing elements of historic fact with fiction, the easiest explanation for Bardem's wig - like mess in this Milos Forman film is that it's a period piece set in the late 18th - century.
Writer - director Shane Black knows detective movies and pulp fiction inside out, and in this film he takes elements and scenes that have become staples of those genres and changes them slightly, often to hilarious effect.
I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.
Most notable among these is the gently playful shoehorning of genre elements into a whispery character study: 40 - odd minutes in, the film casually yawns, stretches and takes up an shaggy - dog mystery plot born of the director's love for detective fiction.
The original Blade Runner, released in 1982, was a groundbreaking film that masterfully weaved elements from science fiction, detective stories, and even philosophy.
Though the Westerns eventually made way for science fiction flicks to be Westerns in space (the «new frontier»), unfortunately, at least in the case of Cowboys & Aliens, the elements cancel out one another.
Todays update involves the casting of Bruce Willis (hopefully it will be the Pulp Fiction, Fast Food Nation, 12 Monkeys Willis and not the Cop Out, Fifth Element, Mercury Rising Willis) and confirms Joseph Gordon - Levitt (who proved a winning combination with Johnson's sensibility in chic - noir Brick).
Yet Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have still managed to carve out their own little niche in the market with this film, a daring fusion of grindhouse genre fiction with indie romance that somehow uses those seemingly opposed elements to transcend and forge a tale about the power and uniting force of love, no matter how star - crossed and unlikely its subjects may be.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (Blu - ray + DVD + digital) Release date: April 24 Details: 2018, Fox Home Entertainment Rated: PG - 13, intense science fiction action and violence, language, thematic elements The lowdown: In this conclusion to the «Maze Runner» trilogy, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) leads the group of escaped Gladers on a mission to break into the legendary Last City to save their friends.
It is more than mere Hollywood adaptation, it is a work of art on multiple levels with fantastic technical elements and some of the best performances in a work of science fiction in years.
This element, in addition to taking the story to horror, science fiction and fantasy, opens the movie to a direct metaphor of the characters» external and internal conflicts, and to a real representation of what the characters reject and long for.
Like so many classics, it works singularly across multiple genres — horror, science fiction, drama, thriller — but its beauty comes from all those elements working in concert.
In the film's most unexpected sequence, del Toro unites its science fiction and musical theater elements for a truly bizarre, woman - and - merman, Broadway - style number set to the Harry Warren — Mack Gordon standard «You'll Never Know.»
A joyfully perverse exercise in world - building for a franchise that will only live on in fan fiction, the Wachowskis» space opera was a vibrant throwback to gonzo epics like The Fifth Element, Brazil, and the siblings» own The Matrix.
Obviously, casting slapstick comedian Martin Short should send a signal that Innerspace is going to be a comedy, but in this case, the comedy gets in the way, and causes the science fiction elements to lose credibility.
Elements that could be cool in a better science fiction movie just seem out of place here.
STARCRASH represents an early foray for the composer into the realm of science fiction and he would soon return again when he worked in 1979 on THE BLACK HOLE, Disney's attempt to compete with rival studios in the wake of STAR WARS and MOONRAKER, that year's entry in the James Bond series, which featured many science fiction elements.
The new science fiction film from director Luc Besson (The Big Blue, The Fifth Element) stars Scarlett Johansson in a much anticipated role.
Though I don't read much dystopian fiction, ON SUCH A FULL SEA has all the elements I generally love in fiction: a mysterious disappearance, a strong heroine who sets out in search of the missing person, and masterful storytelling.
For a lesson plan designed to help teach students improve their reading comprehension, for example, you might state that at the end of the lesson, students should be able to read and understand figurative language, plot, climax, and other fiction characteristics, as well as the elements of nonfiction, and display the ability to find specific information in the text.
Hidden Shadows is a Winner in the Fiction category of the 2016 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accolades.
«I'm NOT interested in science fiction, horror, high fantasy, Christian fiction, political novels, or books with extremely violent elements.»
«I'm NOT interested in Christian fiction, adult non-fiction, horsey books, genre science fiction or high fantasy (though I am open to speculative elements, especially in middle grade fiction), erotica, category romance (though romantic elements are welcomed in novels), or books that feature graphic violence.
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Read the post, and you will find how some of these elements fit into the same questions Ami Hendrikson asked herself to find the threads in her fiction.
I read Christian fiction, so I'm most interested in the Romance with Religious or Spiritual Elements category.
The Seventh Age, an archaeological adventure with a science fiction element was the first in the series.
Review plot / character elements for consistency in fiction / non-fiction works.
Being both a historic novel and a murder mystery, it combines elements that aren't in other fictions.
Similarly, another uncle who was a teenager at the time did flee Ethiopia for Sudan during the Revolution, and while we've discussed his journey, it's always in relatively vague and general terms, and that's partly where the fiction element comes.