Sentences with phrase «as a prologue brings»

It succeeds as a standalone read, as a prologue brings readers up to date with a concise description of Saville's alternative world, while an intriguing author's note explains the very real history behind the book: a Nazi plan to «quarantine» Jews in Poland beginning in 1939, and the subsequent unsuccessful Nazi «Madagaskar - Projekt,» hatched by SS leader Heinrich Himmler in 1940.

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In particular, there's a lavishly superfluous prologue set in Jerusalem, which begins with a young Arab boy dashing through the streets just to bring the fastidious European sleuth his breakfast eggs — all to Patrick Doyle's «full of Eastern promise» music, which would have been rejected as too corny for The Mummy Returns.

Sarchie's visions (represented by quick flashes of disgusting things, the lamest kind of scare tactic) stem from an ancient evil brought to the Bronx from Iraq by a group of soldiers who discover evil looking Latin inscriptions in a cave, as is seen in the film's prologue.

That said, while in no way begrudging John Huston's prologue narration and John Hurt's standout rendering of the Horned King, I respect an old school Disney movie that uses professional voiceover actors and not the boldface names of the moment to bring its characters to life, notably the great John Byner as Gurgi, a Gollum - like troublemaker.

There are three prologues, each nested within the last as storytelling conceits to bring us back, in stages, to 1932, and Chapter 1.