Sentences with phrase «archetypal characters as»

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.

Not exact matches

Lorre often was cast as a shady, not - to - be trusted character, and Greenstreet as a sinister fat man and archetypal villain.

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

The threesome jam in a punk - rock band and are very close, but the film places extra emphasis on Malcolm as his investment in academics and in trying to get into Harvard make for a character that shames most archetypal movie teens.

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.

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.

With Warriors, it's as if the magic that made each character special has been sucked out and replaced with general archetypal traits.

In Stygian, you will create your main character from scratch, with access to several archetypal backgrounds, each with its own origin story, skills, traits, and belief system, the last of which determines how your character replenishes lost sanity as well as presenting unique dialog choices.

On one hand Jones looks to Buddhist practices and meditation as a source of energy in the creation of his work yet everywhere we look we see Wolverine masks and Black Flag logos (originally designed by Raymond Pettibon in the late 70's) which conjure a kind of brash male ego enterprise (the rocker, the comic book character) The use of these two archetypal symbols feel earnest.

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.

It will also include works featuring the blue man, a recurring character in Bickerton's paintings who is loosely based on Gauguin and whom Bickerton describes as a «parody of the archetypal 19th - century anti-hero».

The objects and bodies of the Tobias tableaux are often drawn from archetypal folk figures of their Transylvanian heritage, including the notable character Vlad the Impaler, as well as Romanian political lineages of dictatorial urbanization and Socialist architecture.

Through his illustrative storytelling, Trenton Doyle Hancock has developed the Mounds and the Vegans, a distinct set of mythological characters that the museum describes as «two diametrically opposed universal forces that play out the archetypal battle between good and evil.»

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