Sentences with phrase «as a plot device»

In each scene, technology or machinery is used as a plot device to push the larger narrative forward.

Nothing is more boring than cardboard characters that just serve as plot devices.

The heroes are shown as capable of making mistakes while the villains actually react to events as people and not as plot devices.

The film is about magic, but it's more or less a classic story of star crossed lovers that uses magic as a plot device.

It's not too much of a stretch to use that guilt as a plot device or conflict point to further define a relationship between the two, right?

So as a plot device which drives elements of the game's narrative, she's very significant.

Mental illness is often used as a plot device in games.

Everyone else exists primarily as a plot device or a comedic element for Nick to play off of rather than a fully realized person; that's all they can be, since he moves around too much for us to really get to know anyone except he and Sheeni.

Nebula isn't even part of the story until half - way through, and then is treated more as a plot device than an actual character.

Jason Clarke who is our main human protagonist, acts as a plot device for much of the film.

While the Damsel in Distress trope uses women as a plot device to motivate male heroes, the Women as Reward trope presents women as a formalized reward mechanism, meaning that the reward is coded into the game system itself.

ore doors to kids who like the many weapons and vehicles that are worked into the story, mainly advertisements posing as as plot devices.

It steers dangerously close to disengaging the audience (and occasionally doesn't work as a plotting device), but that patience is what makes the Daughter distinct.

It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.

Of course it is not true love in the tiresome modern sense, but romantic love as a plot device.

Rather they using their impotency as a plot device, they insult the viewers intelligence by ignoring it.

His peers are thin caricatures of closed - minded bullies, and his girlfriend primarily functions as a plot device.

The use (and abuse) of a very young child in peril as a plot device is something I approach with caution, but in this case, without giving away too much of the final act, I feel it is largely justified by the story.

i thought his use of alcohol as a plot device was brilliant.

Each of the film's three acts feel divided by massive tonal shifts as plot devices get discarded, as if Russell is unsure of an angle to approach his subject and her family or is stuck after keeping too many balls in there.

He uses feminism as a plot device, depicting the women as braying harridans and broad caricatures rather than exploring feminism itself.

The choice to have her talking to Denis as a plot device wears quite thin, especially as the film reaches it's contrived ending.

I may sound like a Scrooge, but «The Night Before» falls into that genre of movie that uses Christmas as a plot device to excuse overindulgence and outrageous behavior.

Think Like a Man makes the unusual choice to feature its source text as a plot device and essentially a lead character.

Utilizing anachronistic gumshoe dialogue in the style of Dashiell Hammett, director Rian Johnson assembled a seemingly clever detective story that uses a «brick» of heroin as the MacGuffin, and a dead girl as a plot device.

Actually, it is the manic pacing of the comedy that bothered me, breathlessly frenetic to a fault, as if Russell couldn't stop for even a moment or his whole house of cards would fall apart into nothingness, which I argue would be appropriate for a movie that uses nihilism as a plot device.

As production went on, we found ourselves implementing fuse more and more with the gameplay, instead of using it solely as a plot device.

It doesn't help that Ms. Janney's character is the least developed in the movie; though her back story is briefly sketched in, she serves mainly as a plot device in what is ultimately a film about masculinity and its discontents.

Even with its unimpressive story and its over-reliance on Peter Parker's parents as a plot device, the charm of Garfield and Stone persevered enough to make the film interesting at the very least and at times even something resembling a film that deserves praise.

What Rememory wants to show us about those ideas is constantly deferred for a routine mystery that only incorporates those ideas as plot devices.

Not really a negetaive aspect just frustration from me that his wonderfully drawn alien psyches had little show in this book save as plot devices.

S: What inspired the concept for Final Fantasy Explorers and what makes fighting summon monsters interesting as a plot device?

Using Amnesia as a plot device only works if you're willing to do a better job in building a world and having characters interesting enough to explore.

Please join me for our next video in which we will continue our discussion of the Women as Background Decoration trope by examining the growing trend of exploiting sexual violence as a plot device in game narratives.

Al Green has stated that he's made more money in royalties off the Big Mouth Billy Bass that sings his hit song «Take Me to the River» than any other recording of the song — the singing fish sold thousands of units in the early 2000s and even made an appearance as a plot device in an episode of The Sopranos.

Sometimes in these types of games, females characters are either secondary, unimportant in the grand scheme of the narrative, overly sexualized, or merely serve as a plot device to galvanize and progress the main male character's actions or motivations.

These moments are relevant to the story, but primarily act as plot devices that continue to drive the conflict between the five immortals.

The other, and more troubling aspect to the film is Mr. Johnson's use of women as plot devices or Male Support Systems.

Fetishists of wanton destruction will get plenty to drool over, while Hasbro will be able to push plenty of newfangled toys out of the department store doors to kids who like the many weapons and vehicles that are worked into the story, mainly advertisements posing as as plot devices.

The book's narrative seems to be fairly convoluted, and the screen version features several characters who register primarily as plot devices, including a sadistic villain played by Pat Healy (one of the stars of Cheap Thrills) and an eccentric played by Blair himself.

Actually she serves for Bertolucci more as a plot device than as a person.

While he's an integral part of the Batman mythos, he's often used as a plot device that simply exists to give Batman information on whatever crime he's attempting to solve.

As a plot device, it's a smart choice — Hannigan's sunny redhead earnestness and Biggs» mastery of piping - hot foodstuffs are two of the series» most appealing conceits.

We see his lackadaisical efforts at completing a college admission form, and it's used as a plot device to track Sutter's progression / maturation through the film.

Btw, I don't think they're exactly gonna make jokes about cancer itself, rather use it as a plot device.

Ricky is not just stupid; he and his family are bar none the shallowest, most one - dimensional people you've ever seen onscreen, and even when they address this issue later on, it reveals itself as a plot device that only exposes more flaws in the storytelling.

It may not be as clever as «Inside Out» or groundbreaking as «Wall - E,» but it finds a way to wedge itself into contention with many of Pixar's great because of its expert use and understanding of the Mexican heritage that it uses as a plot device and backdrop.

Meanwhile, Clemons proves that she needs to be getting more work across the board as a character whose mixed race and sexuality are never used as a plot device, but merely something that is part of her everyday life.

And were they really joking about date rape, or just using the drug on themselves as a plot device?