Sentences with phrase «adaptations of materials»

In most cases, this will require minor adaptations of materials already available or providing additional opportunities for practice of learned material.

It's fair to say that this version isn't a good one - to - one adaptation of the material, but it's still surprisingly entertaining.

The film has the advantage of prescience in forecasting a cynical corporate world, yet the best adaptation of this material remains John McTiernan's 2002 remake, which is also not a good movie.

Robert Aldrich would make a much more impressionable adaptation of this material in 1971 with The Grissom Gang, another title unfortunately neglected.

* The terms autoconstrucción and autodestrucción (translated literally as self - construction and self - destruction) refer to methods of building and eventual destruction that arise from the constraints of poverty, which require scavenging, recycling, and adaptation of materials.

[14] In some sense, music creation depends on the borrowing and adaptation of material passed from one musician to another.

Other TouchWiz changes said to be in the works include the adaptation of Material Design effects, coloring schemes, and animations debuted in Android Lollipop and the addition of more themes.

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But it's not until very recently that these adaptations have approached anything as inherently weird as some of the source material for «Avengers: Age of Ultron.»

These materials were combined with each other in all manner of ways, but it is important to see that the guiding principle of such organization was not practical usefulness in the adaptation to the environment, but intrinsic satisfaction.

In such cases the volunteers themselves should take on the responsibility of soliciting orientation materials, reading articles on cross-cultural adaptation, and getting in touch with consultants from national or regional mission agencies, missionaries on home assignment or in retirement, and experienced volunteers.

Authoring organization (s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - Published: 2006, 2008 Summary: These materials include clinical algorithms geared for health workers (not lay counselors) to use to counsel mothers and determine the most appropriate time to stop breastfeeding; an adaptation and finalization of the World Health Organization (WHO) Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary feeding and country - specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement feeding.

But in Southeast Asia and New Guinea, you're back in tropical forests, so it's possible that we don't see microliths there because of an adaptation to the environment or due to lack of suitable raw materials for making them.»

What would amount to ex-situ conservation for the moved populations, could amount to in - situ conservation of the recipient populations, if the new genetic material assists in adaptation to higher environmental extremes.

These corals could survive the next 100 years of climate change in the tropics, and kick - start the region's adaptation and evolution, thereby providing genetic material selected for heat resistance over 6 ky..

Some of the first experiments carried out in the Laboratory involved the adaptation of radiation from a synchrotron source for use with biological material.

Furthermore, morphological alterations of the skull due to adaptations to different food items [47] in the study population (see Material and methods) relative to the source populations (probably spillovers from harvest and fodder on farms), can not be ruled out as a source of the observed decrease in head length, but also can not explain the reversed trend in later years.

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With only two or so hours of story time, the movies have been forced to sacrifice swaths of her material, and while the scripts have been largely models of adaptation — most, this one included, are by Steve Kloves — the emphasis on action (and interminable games of quidditch) was also a concession to the action - imperative of the modern blockbuster.

Now, Jackson isn't duty - bound to make a literal adaptation of The Hobbit; his purpose should be to create a compelling film story from the source material.

The film is an adaptation of Petit's book To Reach the Clouds, and this material already has been covered cinematically by way of non-fiction (For interested parties, that film would be James Marsh's effective Man on Wire).

A few reviewers found the material a bit too dated, but this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play of the same name by Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives) drew mostly raves, especially for Rachel Weisz's powerful performance as a woman whose life is torn apart when she cheats on her older husband (Simon Russell Beale) with a young war veteran (Tom Hiddleston).

Critic Consensus: The Great Gatsby proves that even a pair of tremendously talented leads aren't always enough to guarantee a successful adaptation of classic literary source material.

But with the bondage / wedding visual metaphor and the attention paid to Anastasia taking Christian's last name, could the filmmakers be layering a critique of the source material's obsession with marriage - as - happy - ending into this adaptation?

Many modern film adaptations of popular novels are slavish to their source material.

Critics Consensus: The Great Gatsby proves that even a pair of tremendously talented leads aren't always enough to guarantee a successful adaptation of classic literary source material.

On the plus side it is very faithful to the original source material, a good adaptation with retains all elements of gore and atmosphere.

Although trimming a source material's story for time constraints is an understandable and widely accepted practice in filmmaking, cutting the already trim depths of emotional arcs of Ana and Christian that were presented in the final novel for its movie made the overall adaptation untitallating and unfulfilling.

British novelist Mary Stewart's beloved «The Little Broomstick» predates J.K. Rowling's hit Harry Potter series by more than a quarter - century, which means the source material is original, even if its gorgeous big - screen adaptation feels a bit derivative in places — and derivative of not just Rowling's more richly imagined fantasy world, but also Ghibli's own «Kiki's Delivery Service,» which presents a similar plot, in reverse: There, a young witch with a flying broom loses her powers, whereas in this case, young Mary discovers a magical broom that whisks her away to Endor College, where she's celebrated for her newfound abilities.

The absence of chemistry between Jacob and Marlena cements Water for Elephants» place as a fairly misbegotten adaptation, which is a shame, really, given the strength of the source material and the talent both in front of and behind the camera.

Not only are these scenes a lot longer and more expository than they need to be, but they give the sense of a film crew fighting against the material; the camera chases after the story, rather than grabbing it by the scruff of the neck like a proper adaptation would.

A twisted adaptation, as far as the spirit of the source material.

Although much of the target audience will be completely uninformed about the source material for this otherworldly, masked crime fighter, it's safe to assume that very little of the original Spirit is present in this surprisingly dull adaptation.

I also had the misfortune of experiencing the new film version of «Les Misérables», which fails to hide the weaker aspects of the source material and, with the exception of a single sequence, never brings any imagination to the screen adaptation.

Mark Bell always says that a film adaptation of a book should stand on its own apart from the source material.

An adaptation of Mark Harris» book of the same name, the three - part series adds new vitality to the material by bring in contemporary filmmakers to discuss the five directors who most shaped the American propaganda effort in the Second World War.

Last year, the actor played supporting Vampire hunter Henry Sturges in the genre - bending novel adaptation Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - one of the bright spots in a film that fell short of finding the same success as its source material.

Full of orphans with extraordinary powers, it is anticipated that the film adaptation will share the source material's dark, Gothic feel (and considering Tim Burton is at the helm, we most certainly hope he delivers).

This is not surprising: even without knowledge of the material, it's easy to see where corners have been either cut or sanded smooth in the adaptation of a decades - spanning life study.

While I haven't read Agathe Christie's work or seen the previous adaptations of her work, I can still confidently say that this isn't on par with its predecessors or source material.

The idea of an U.N.C.L.E. adaptation now feels as old as the source material itself: A big - screen version has been in the works since the»90s, attached at various times to Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh and reportedly starring every white guy to grace the pages of People in the past two decades (including Don Draper himself, Jon Hamm.)

Most movie adaptations of fantasy books make disappointing changes to the source material — but over at Tor.com, Emily Asher - Perrin argues that Stardust is a rare exception.

This entire project has my full attention: Pet Sematary is my favorite Stephen King novel, and while the 1989 film was a pretty solid adaptation (King wrote the script himself), there are a lot of details that were left out of the film that could work perfectly in a new take on the material.

The Disaster Artist is a pretty faithful adaptation of its source material, but leaves some crucial - and crazy - moments out.

I've never read the source material, but I've seen both adaptations of Capote actually researching the novel (Capote with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Infamous with Toby Jones).

Could it be that in the intervening decade of film culture, Howard and his returning collaborators from previous Brown adaptations — screenwriter David Koepp, cinematographer Salvatore Totino, composer Hans Zimmer — hadn't thought of a single way to give the source material even the measliest spritz of freshness?

«Truth» In theaters: Oct. 16 (limited release) New materials: Full Trailer, First Poster Lowdown: I was a big fan of James Vanderbilt's adaptation of Mary Mapes» first hand account of the «Rathergate» scandal that hit CBS News in 2004 when it debuted at the Toronto Film Festival almost two weeks ago («Truth» movie review).

In the omnivorous devouring of comic book - related material for costly big screen adaptations, there are a number of glaring omissions.

Adaptations of other material, such as movie tie - in games, have often been terrible and met with the appropriate reception.

But the adaptation is loose and streamlined, Garland chiseling the source material into a pastiche of secondhand sci - fi tropes, some lifted from his own work.

There had been many failed attempts to bring the material to the big screen, but somehow Stanton was able to convince the studio heads to let him be the one to make the adaptation at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.