Sentences with phrase «narrative conventions such»

Narrative conventions such as climax, conflict, resolution, and cause and effect were disregarded and dismantled, reflecting the reality of the human condition and the element of chance.

Not exact matches

Even eschewing the conventions of three act arc is an increasingly rare bird on screen these days, let alone relying on a sole lead to carry the entire movie on her shoulders, but she's refreshingly well - adjusted for someone tasked with bearing such narrative responsibility.

Despite a game performance from Fanning, Mary Shelley reportedly falls back upon shopworn biopic conventions, transforming a passionate recounting of lively extremes and bold behavior into a mild - mannered narrative, afraid to get daring — ironic when the film's title character is such an irrepressible rule - breaker.

It's an interesting attempt to tie RPG levelling together with nonlinear narrative conventions, but we're desperate to play it for ourselves now, especially after such a lengthy development cycle — not to mention a release date on the near horizon.

Now to get me to play a JRPG it has to be doing something really formally ambitious (like Live - A-Live), be an undisputed classic that I never got around to (like when I played Chrono Trigger in college), or have such a strong tone and artistic and narrative direction that it transcends its mechanical JRPG conventions (the Mother series does this for me — Ni No Kuni might).

Drawing on the use of elliptical conversations in the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais as a point of departure, the exhibition features works of art that utilize various cinematic conventions, such as editing, character development, narrative, mise - en - scène and montage, to reveal how our understanding of reality is often mediated by those very cinematic techniques.

Institutional conventions such as theft protection become a narrative moment that undermines the abstract composition, and drops materialize as wall decoration.