Sentences with phrase «archetypal characters»

He goes on the road for a cross-country journey, where in his aimless adventure he encounters a host of archetypal characters in many different states.

Yet, 37 years later, PAC - MAN is still one of the most archetypal characters in gaming.

While the artist's third solo exhibition retains the diaristic backbone of her anxieties, indulgences and dreams, Morgan enriches her palette of archetypal characters with allegorical scenes.

In fact, some Jewish scholars are now admitting that many stories from the Old Testament are either outright fabrications, or are stories that were partially true but were embellished and mythologized to create archetypal characters as Jewish heroes.

The patience the film shows in exploring the dynamic of the Granite Mountain Hotshots as an ever - shifting but carefully balanced ecosystem allows for even the most archetypal characters here to feel fleshed out and genuinely human.

While the movie relies on somewhat archetypal characters and a predictable plot, its core message about overcoming fear and loneliness by seeing the humanity in one another will resonate with anyone who's ever felt unheard.

Archetypal characters heave archetypal themes across rural terrain, seemingly as bewildered by the convoluted plot machinations as any audience might be.

«Camp Bloodbath» is a by - the - numbers killer in the woods movie, over full with placeholder archetypal characters — the jock, the geek, the slut, the virgin — all but the latter meant as fodder for deranged and deformed Jason Vorhees knockoff, Billy Murphy (Dan B. Norris) and his menacing machete.

While this might not be totally dismissible, it's certainly not the entire truth, this angle is played up to its most extreme, engendering archetypal character clichés.

The cast of archetypal characters includes a Hooker With a Heart of Gold (Raymonde), a Wise - Beyond - Her - Years Teenager (Diana Hopper) and even a Young Woman Who Is Obviously Gorgeous But No One Can Tell Because She's Wearing Glasses (Olivia Thirlby).

I explained to students that people, like archetypal characters, are complex.

I may not have the fortune of purchasing every writing craft book out there, but my self - study into writing means that I at least know what I'm looking for: If I feel the need to play with a new structure for outlining a novel, or feel, perhaps, that my story needs a different archetypal character.

Halo is full of these bullshit archetypal characters and there's no real emotional effect.»

These heroes consist of archetypal character classes moulded around some interesting cartoon designs — there's the cigar chomping dynamite wielding explosives expert, Sheriff Lonestar, the floating cloaked brain in a jar healer, Voltar, and the stealthy chameleon who can blend into the background, Leon.

Pieter Hugo's series Nollywood portrays archetypal characters from one of the three largest film industries in the world, «Nollywood» in Nigeria (which is larger than Hollywood and second to Bollywood, according to 2009 UNESCO report).

Organized loosely in three intersecting sections that represent recurring archetypal characters in Sarabia's oeuvre — The Migrant, The Mystic, and The Greater Fool — the exhibition aims to problematize the chronological format of the traditional survey show while highlighting the complex relationships and networks that have facilitated Sarabia's expansive practice for almost twenty years.

The Lion and the Unicorn is a short film in which three archetypal characters debate points of view on nationalism, trade and finance, natural resources and politics.

The setting for Julien Nguyen's new body of work is Biblical; each painting is composed through readymade scenes in which archetypal characters pose in some of the most archetypical scriptural tableaux.

Archetypal characters with no particular traits that stand them out from the crowd prevent the film from ever leaving second gear.

A wickedly funny, irreverent comedy, featuring a malapropism - peppered performance by Jennifer Coolidge and an impeccable cast of archetypal characters, Austenland hits all the right notes of the Regency era and our curious infatuation with it.

This is nonsense and it's been promulgated by both the mainstream media and the financial web, both of which sometimes opt for a cleaner story with pret - a-porter viewpoints and archetypal characters.

A pleasurable pastiche of familiar tradition, hyberbolic gore, archetypal characters, excellent build - up, and all put through the filter of the consistently original Takashi Miike.

These are archetypal characters, to be sure, but Fox and Seyfried are very good in expressing the intensity of teen - girl friendships.

As a result, Inherent Vice loses its personality and becomes a plodding travelogue of period seediness and archetypal character.

Desplechin's latest, My Golden Days, represents a three - point return: to Roubaix, previously the setting of his family ensemble piece A Christmas Tale; to the rap and college rock 1980s of his youth; and to the archetypal characters of what's still one of his best films, My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into An Argument, the freeform, three - hour hip relationship drama to end all hip relationship dramas.

It is a cyclical film (beginning and ending with the founding of a town) with archetypal characters (father / son aggressions, mother / daughter deceptions), and it is told like Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, through image and an almost instinctual understanding of the stories inherently related by a time and a place.

With its linear, mission - centric plot and collection of archetypal characters, «Hostiles,» which Cooper adapted from an unproduced manuscript by the late screenwriter Donald E. Stewart («Missing»), bears more than passing resemblance to such towering John Ford classics as «Stagecoach» and «The Searchers,» an affinity underlined by the sweeping landscape and kinetic action captured with keen sensitivity by cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi.

Every aspect of Curiosityville — from the activity and game development to the sound effects, animation, and archetypal characters — is built for optimal child development and learning.

[62] Destructoid editor Jim Sterling criticized the story for its archetypal characters and immature dialogue, stating that the game fails to understand the essence of Aliens.

The gameplay involves choosing one of four archetypal characters (to fit different play - styles) and then going off and shooting things, collecting loot (in the form of weapons, shield mods and grenade mods) and cash, and completing missions (which generally involve shooting things).

His highly theatrical and mysterious work is invested with dense layers of art - historical reference, archetypal characters, hypnagogic imagery, and diaristic storytelling.

In Cindy Sherman's famed Untitled Film Stills series, most of the 69 photographs depict the artist as a archetypal character known from the movies: a housewife, a femme fatale, a working girl, and everything in between — all evoking the ways the cinema has the tendency to objectify women.

Here his subjects are friends, acquaintances and archetypal characters of that period, portrayed in relaxed and happy situations: people chatting on a sofa, lovers lying in bed or a man chilling in an armchair, like in Renato e Poltrona (1965).

These archetypal characters play up or down certain characteristics of her autobiography.

The initial image in his work is often based on found photos and postcards, but Gokita distorts the figures quite a bit, distilling them down to archetypal characters or scenes.

Symbolic objects and archetypal characters, such as a key, a knife, a flower and a dark shadow, recur throughout the film.