Sentences with phrase «as a framing device»

First, they'll just be a couple of cameos used as a framing device, so that Professor X and Magneto are looking back at the events of the new movie.

Structure-wise, Leitch uses a debriefing between Lorraine and her senior Eric Gray (Toby Jones)-- together with extraneous Chief C (James Faulkner) and CIA representative Emmett Kurzfeld (John Goodman)-- as the framing device to tell the story in flashbacks.

-- matricide, using the conversation as a framing device to flash back to his youth and reveal the bond between Norma Bates (Olivia Hussey) and her son (played by Henry Thomas).

Using the character's written confession (in a location far from his beloved farm) as a framing device robs the story of any real suspense and, worse, fails to enrich the events on screen with emotional or moral substance.

is the sort of film that uses interviews as a framing device and ends with title cards explaining what happened to its principal characters because of course it does.

BE: Who came up with the idea of dividing the film into three Three Stooges shorts as a framing device?

As a framing device, it allows del Toro to approach his monster (s) from a place of childlike wonder and tenderness, without having to account for the corrupt inclinations that come with adulthood.

In Reservoir Dogs it acts as a framing device and a constant companion to the colourful misters.

The film utilizes Turing's 1951 police interrogation by a sympathetic and curious detective (Rory Kinnear) as a framing device for the three significant time periods of his life.

Adapted from the memoir of the same name by the real Jordan Belfort, the script by Boardwalk Empire creator Terrence Winter uses voice - over narration as a framing device (like Goodfellas) in order to allow Belfort's story to unfold «in his own language,» so to speak.

Frustratingly, the film that acts as the framing device, «Tape 49», is only a smidge more interesting than «Tape 52» from the first film.

The film uses this as a framing device, and as an almost surgical means to dissect the psyche of its titular character.

Started follows the journeys of two DJs as a framing device: Carl Cox, the legendary U.K. jockey who's been spinning records since the Eighties, and Martin Garrix, a teen Dutch wunderkind who headlines major festivals and represents the new era of rock - star DJs who work more with laptops more than actual vinyl.

Having written about whaling and the South Seas in both In the Heart of the Sea and Sea of Glory, I was fascinated by Mitchell's use of 19th century New Zealand and Hawaii as a framing device.

Using the inauguration of President Obama as a framing device, Congressman John Lewis and graphic novelist Powell tell the story of Lewis's life and his participation in America's civil rights movement.

In the 1986 original, which was called The Hyrule Fantasy: Legend of Zelda in Japan, Zelda serves as a framing device in the grand pattern of the «rescue the princess» trope.

I think it's weirder that this was the second review in two days to use Seinfeld as a framing device.

Recapturing the Scenic Wilds investigates natural history as a framing device in contemporary art, raising questions about the capture, collection and display of nature.

They serve as both framing devices for the drawings as well as projection devices for the sound installation developed with Tcherepnin.

The door functions as a framing device to emphasize the conventions of image construction, and to show how the body may trouble these conventions.

The window as a framing device is an integral motif for Genzken, not just as a voyeuristic element as with Windscreen 2 (2008)-- where a cracked car windscreen protrudes from the gallery wall, lending the audience a fractured view of a framed image of an anonymous nude male and female embracing — but as an architectural framework.

Here, however, each layer of paint is applied from the far edges of the canvas working inward toward the center, thus resulting in an illusionistic depth, the lighter tones of the composition acting as a framing device.

Or any of a number of oblique nods to fellow Düsseldorfer Joseph Beuys, including a rolled felt blanket, Braunkreuz - like smears of paint in a set of drawings, the use of the vitrine as a framing device, and the application of the term «Block» to describe the complex of assembled works?

Known for their unique approach to things and their meaning, General Idea appropriated the ziggurat as the icon of power and theism, utilizing its form as a framing device to examine questions of architecture, branding and spatial politics.

Christalena Hughmanick and Sterling Lawrence's collaborative works use rejected Burberry raincoat fabric in the form of moving blankets as a framing device.

The exhibition will also feature invited artists Alan Butler (IE), Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock (UK) and writer Mark Hutchinson (UK), whose work will be used as a framing device, weaving a thread throughout the overall exhibition.

Islam installs her films in architectural configurations, frequently using two or three screens as a framing device.

Tourism, the service industry, and the American dream serve as the framing devices for works that mine — and undermine — constantly shifting dynamics of power.

His paintings start to feature black lines, first as a framing device for both every individual form in the painting and the painting itself.

General Idea appropriates this symbol of power and theism, utilizing the form as a framing device to examine questions of branding, architecture and spatial politics.

Islam installs her films in architectural configurations, frequently presenting them across two or three screens as a framing device.

The title of the exhibition refers to the window as a framing device, a boundary between a space which is occupied by a viewer from a space which is viewed, and the Windows operating system, first released nearly thirty years ago around the same time when these artists were born.

Actually as a framing device, I think the bet is a very good idea.

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Researchers already have identified malware capable of hacking a car through its infotainment system and warn that something as seemingly innocuous as a Wi - Fi - enabled digital picture frame could allow intruders to access a home's entire network of connected devices and private information.

Some specialized devices can be used as early as eight weeks., though 12 weeks into pregnancy is a more normal time frame.

Back in the good old days of 2007, when dinosaurs walked the Earth, nobody had really heard about eBooks, less still grasped how popular they'd become, allowing old books a new lease of life; and how devices capable of holding entire libraries in their diminutive frames, and still capable of being used as — of all things, telephones — would be ubiquitous.

Yes, he constructs various shots as paintings in a frame, but he does so with such a stylish, subtle touch the device never feels forced, and works on an almost subliminal level to enhance the richness of the film's scope.

In an unnecessary and unenlightening framing device, Berge speaks directly to the late Saint Laurent as the couple's extensive art collection is being boxed up for auction.

«Maybe he is the most demanding man,» Alma says to an interlocutor, during a fireside chat that acts as a quasi — framing device.

Scheherazade, as in the folk tales, is both character and framing device, doomed to tell stories for a thousand and one nights in order to postpone her execution at the hands of her husband the king.

He keeps returning to the present - day, less - than - inspired framing device in which an old woman, dying in a New Orleans hospital as Hurricane Katrina approaches, listens to her daughter (Julia Ormond) read Benjamin's journals.

It seemed like a distraction, but as the movie progressed I understood that this framing device was its own sub-story and had its own complexity, namely the older Tom coming clean to the decisions that still haunt his soul.

As these two men are allowing themselves to become more vulnerable and sharing their demons and doubts and worst fears, I started to realize that this framing device was weirdly more compelling than all the whale action.

Instead, Miles Ahead uses a framing device that presents its story as if it's a piece of music that Miles is playing for Rolling Stone reporter Dave Brill (Ewan McGregor).

The music of Tupac is used as narration or some sort of thematic framing device.

Beginning with a pointless and irritating framing device, an old Tonto (Johnny Depp) tells a young boy dressed as the Lone Ranger about the real Lone Ranger, John Reid (Hammer).

In fact, the script is kind of clunky — there's even a bit where Tarantino starts narrating his own screenplay, not as an essential framing device but because he apparently loves the sounds of his own voice.

Some of the framing device is honestly a little bit flawed, considering that Judy could easily look over Rodentia, seeing even as a small rabbit she towers over the inhabitants of that particular area.

After seeing the packed narratives within narratives of part one, Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One seems, as Miguel Gomes himself suggested, a very different film, connected to the first by the framing device, theme and some of the performers (assuming different roles in the new installment) rather than through narrative continuation.

The idea of a Scientology - like «religion» is used only as a narrative framing device — the film itself poses much more thought - provoking questions.