Sentences with phrase «actual story of the film»

In addition, the writer / director promised fans that the Porgs do serve some, albeit likely small, role in the actual story of the film:

Such sequences could actually have been exciting as well if they had been longer or had anything to do with the actual story of the film.

Not exact matches

There have been the usual allegations of undue inaccuracies, though the only really significant difference between the film and the actual story that I could find has to do with the real - life Dicky Eklund's very lengthy addiction to drugs and criminality.

Casting light on the inherent contradictions between the public claims of Scientology as an applied philosophy and its actual practices, the film gives voice to these peoples» stories by inserting them as recurring reference points throughout the film, from its opening credits to its closing shot.

Polley's meta approach to directing this doc, whereby the making of the film is as crucial a part of the story as the actual stories it's documenting, was quite inventive.

And now they've turned Legos — those plastic blocks, with no story or personality — into another energetic and wildly clever animated film, one that makes its story the actual experience of playing with these toys.

The words «based on a true story» can strike dread in the heart of the frequent moviegoer, since so often a film is made no more interesting by the fact that it's about actual events.

Opening with a disclaimer that merely reinforces audience suspicions that the purportedly «fictitious» film is a thinly veiled account of actual events, «Belgica» takes its name from the crappy bar where nearly the entire story takes place.

Four writers crafted this film and none of them understood the actual point of the story.

The Hobbit would have been the film were he could have the best of both worlds — numerous creature designs that have an ACTUAL BACKSTORY AND ARE TIED TO THE STORY AT HAND.

Nominally, this is a revenge story and aside from the fact that it takes a surprising amount of time to get to the actual avenging part of the narrative, it plays out very differently to how similar films tend to.

Braff's voiceover narration tells a story (one we will hear twice more over the course of the film, as if repetition can substitute for actual connection) about Aidan and his brother pretending to be superheroes as children, and realizing that maybe they weren't heroes: maybe they were just regular guys.

There's something wrong with a film which has more entertainment value in watching the flubs during the closing credits than in the 90 minutes of the actual story.

Set between the two World Wars and inspired by actual events, «Bitter Harvest» is the first major dramatic film to convey the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by Joseph Stalin that killed millions in Ukraine.

The peculiar thing about «The Crying Game» is that this story outline, while true, hardly suggests the actual content of this film.

It's a coming - of - age story you have seen countless times, and while you have never seen it quite like this, the film shows Justine's transition with metaphors and symbolism that is both meaningful yet lacking impact since the actual story is rather simple.

About half the film uses actors and the other half is interviews with the actual townspeople of Carthage who tell their versions of the story.

John Ford's Fort Apache is an odd film, consisting more of sidetracks than of an actual story, but it showed a new restlessness in Ford, and a willingness to question the norm (and foreshadowing the themes of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance).

Surrogate interferences from Love, Time and Death serve simply as Hollywood-esque responses to actual reality, and distract from the possibility of a real story at the heart of the film's intentions.

«Re-Forging the Legend» tells the actual story of 47 Ronin and the road of how the filmmakers brought this film to the big screen.

Not twelve years of paperwork and bureaucracy and getting the rights to the story but twelve years of actual film - making.

Given the resultant complete void at the center of the story, we focus far more attention on the actual Scandinavian in the film — Swedish actress Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)-- who plays Einar / Lili's long - suffering wife, Gerda.

Niccol, who up to this point has earned a good reputation for exploring themes of reality vs. fantasy, takes a story wholly rooted in real - world politics based on actual people and events and makes his least believable film to date.

But what initially seems to be just a literary framing device, tying the film we're about to see to A.A. Milne's original tales, turns out to be a much more involved conceit, as Pooh and the other characters talk back to the narrator and the actual words on the page of the book often become part of the story.

The story probably sounds stranger on paper than it does in the actual film: an aspiring musician in London named John (Domhall Gleeson) ends up roped into helping a strange band full of oddballs record an album, led by the enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender), a man who wears a giant papier - mâché head to hide his true face.

It's kinda funny — for a film based on actual events, plot twists and turns unfold as if part of a complex fictional story of political intrigue.

No doubt, the actual reviews for the Captain America sequel will be more informative and detailed with their inspection of the film, giving us a better idea as to how successful the movie is as simply a good Steve Rogers story — not to mention, whether or not it really is a popcorn - thriller that has something to say about contemporary world politics.

Had there been an actual cohesive film, offering context, character, story and history, it could have been one of the most powerful movie's I've ever seen.

Half of the film is presented dialogue - free like a silent movie with a lovely score by Carter Burwell, including most of the story set in 1927 which follows a girl named Rose who is played by an actual deaf actor named Millicent Simmonds.

Wiseau said he would only allow his story to be told if he got to act in a scene with Franco, but since it was deemed impossible to work Wiseau into the actual plot of the movie, the only solution was to film a standalone scene and tack it on to the end.

At 90 minutes, this film immediately engages the audience in the narrative with only small bits of information on the actual backstory, and the story line remains highly focused and spare.

Director Lukas Dhont thanked his young star as well as the actual Lara (the subject of the film), a girl from his youth who inspired the story.

While the account of her story in The Longshots takes plenty of liberties with the actual details of her life, the script sticks to the tried and true football film genre like a determined defensive back.

If you're interested in the actual story that provided the genesis of this film, you can learn more about Anneliese Michel and the tragic situation which resulted in her death at this page.

However, I'd have to say that the best actual film in this quartet is Ozu's final masterpiece, the story of a man addressing his age and his place in a changing society — themes that Ozu had certainly visited before but that feel more resonant knowing that this film would be his last.

The Buzz: The film is based on a true story connected with the Shue family, and has been something of a pet project for Elisabeth and Andrew; that being said, neither of them seem to have been fighting packed schedules lately, and just because an inspirational sports movie is based on actual events doesn't mean we haven't seen the same story a million times already.

Yes, the movie plays fast and loose with the facts of Barker's book and, like many films about Afghanistan, actual Afghans are more of an afterthought than part of the main story.

Running nine minutes, it goes just as much into Irving's story than it does the actual production end of the film.

Getting into the actual contents, video quality of each film was very good, with the Jurassic Park III being the best of the lot in that respect, although in terms of story and script, the first entry, Jurassic Park, definitely stands as providing the best combination of action, adventure, and emotional impact.

Movie - tie - in games like Over the Hedge usually lean heavily on the source material for substance, which makes the use of homegrown CG story sequences, rather than short clips from the actual film, a bit of a head - scratcher.

The quantity of gags is both larger but also less refined, which means «Psychopaths» tends to be a movie with a hit / miss ratio that will depend on your tolerance for the film's restlessness, and a story that doesn't really go anywhere and prefers a body count to actual narrative beats.

Monahan's script adapts the story of James Toback, whose actual gambling exploits first inspired the 1974 film; only in this 2014 version, the character drama is saddled with an attempt at greater depth, with Monahan relying on lengthy explanations and pontifications where the original film preferred action and implication to convey its deeper themes and ideas.

It's interesting to note that much of the actual story concerns Cecilia and Robby, but it's the actions of Briony which propel the film along, and we often see the story through her eyes.

Based on actual interviews with those involved, the film zips back and forth between recreations of these conversations and the story they create.

In the film, the runaway train reaches speeds of 80 miles per hour and becomes a media sensation, though in real life the train was much slower and the actual incident was over before it became a major news story.

It opens on a trio of movie folk — a director (played by Robbe - Grillet himself), a producer (actual film producer Paul Louyet), and a secretary / script supervisor (Catherine Robbe - Grillet — you get the idea)-- boarding a train (the Trans - Europ - Express, naturally) and brainstorming a story for a film about drug trafficking between Paris and Antwerp.

Yes, the film simplifies the actual story of Barnum's life to its barest lessons - to - be-learned minimum.

In addition to praising Garland as being a true auteur (while explaining that Garland himself «says he's not an auteur»), VanderMeer touched upon how the film version of his first Southern Reach novel differs in terms of not only tone, but the actual ending to the story:

Based on actual events, this film portrays the story of Operation Auca.

«The Making of the Counterfeiters» (10:02) is an odd making - of featurette, as it's more interested in the true story behind the film than it is in the actual production.