Sentences with phrase «as dramatic scenes»

There are also some nice camera angles employed from director Marion Gering, as well as a dramatic scene on the water that looked scarily realistic.

You set parameters, but you treat it as a dramatic scene.

EGOYAN: By dealing with it as a dramatic scene.

Not exact matches

Samuel Eliot Morison, a canny sailor himself and judicious historian of Columbus, describes Irving's dramatic scenes of Columbus in argument with the learned doctors at the University of Salamanca as «pure moonshine.»

There lies the center of the long perspective; there lies the focus — in the heavenly places, and in the future — like a dramatic scene whose center is off - stage, as in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus; like a symphony whose climax is still to come; (A view which I have tried to set forth in an article, «Eschatology and Reunion,» Religion in Life, 10:83 - 91.)

I had a c - section that started out as a homebirth, and my (very very long) labor at home was WAY less dramatic than that homebirth scene.

That slight bit of normal city friction was as dramatic as the scene became; no protesters appeared and only four identifiable members of the press witnessed Cruz's arrival and departure.

In perhaps the most dramatic scene a Councilman Halloran unaware he was being recorded explained the meaning of money and politics as such, «That's politics, that's politics, it's all about how much.

In dramatic scenes in the Commons, Tory rebels shouted «too late» as justice minister Dominic Raab outlined his concession and Government whips buzzed around the chamber in an attempt to win over rebel MPs.

«When someone so low key and behind the scenes as Assemblywoman Lupardo takes such dramatic action, I really think that sends an unmistakable message to Governor Cuomo,» Hang said.

It was a dramatic scene for residents of Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, as a man said to be an elder in...

They triggered the dramatic scenes this afternoon when Boris waited until the end of what had been planned as his leadership launch to drop the bombshell.

Recent research has hinted that neighboring hydrothermal vents might host different arrays of life, but the scene in the Gulf of California, as Goffredi, Johnson and their colleagues described it in the July 26 Proceedings of the Royal Society B (pdf), provides one of the first dramatic examples of this trend.

SHORTLY after a powerful tornado struck Mayflower, Arkansas, on 27 April, storm - chaser Brian Emfinger flew a drone over the ravaged town, capturing dramatic aerial images of a wide swathe of wreckage, even as emergency services were flocking to the scene.

Arty visuals of things like the sunset or scenes of nature may set a mood or serve as breathing space between the heavy dramatic sequences but they do get in the way and distract.

Lister - Jones is also generous enough an auteur to allow for memorable moments from others, whether it's hilarious bits from the likes of Retta (as Anna and Ben's unlucky marriage counselor), Brooklyn Decker, and Jamie Chung; the escalating weirdness of Armisen (who was, of course, a seasoned indie - band drummer before he turned to acting and comedy); or a knockout dramatic scene between Pally and the great comedian Susie Essman as Ben's mother, who provides some invaluable advice.

None of the humor is cloying or treated as a device to provide levity at the end of every dramatic scene.

Legends of the Fall is one of those movies that is so sloppy and so poorly written and so clumsily directed that every dramatic scene seems to either insult your intelligence or come off as being unintentionally hilarious.

You can practically smell the Belgian beer and backed - up lavatories in the early scenes (a testament to art director Kurt Rigolle), although over the course of more than two hours, the dive undergoes a dramatic transformation, as do the two brothers who conspire to make it the country's coolest concert venue.

If that sounds too brittle a dramatic core, Berg tempers the spartan ideal with some pretty hokey but probably authentic touches: the soldiers quote Ron Burgundy, bellyache about domestic chores back home, Skype their families and, in a scene that is later echoed darkly, argue over whether to shave off a comrade's eyebrows as a forfeit.

Although Reynolds rises above the rest as a father consumed by sadness and anger, «The Captive» quickly devolves into scenes that feel like stilted dramatic re-creations demanding a noirish voice - over by «Cold Case Files» host Bill Kurtis.

With such a farfetched plot already in place, this is the sort of film that could have easily degenerated into a muddled farce with a one - note stand - up comic as the lead, but with a good comedic and dramatic actor like Kline at the forefront, he is able to keep the tone of the comedy and drama appropriate to each scene.

The dramatic scenes are hilariously ridiculous (often unintentionally so); many of the performances feel stilted and off - beat; and the combination of 3D visual design and an attempt to use more on - location settings (as opposed to sound stage or green screen) results in moments that feel unusually amateurish for The Wachowskis.

She is completely fascinating in her first scene, performing a dramatic monologue about immigration while standing inside a corporate grocery store, and just as curious in the next, silently mashing her face into a pile of cheese curls while filming herself with an iPhone.

It's almost as if director Ron Howard used the novel as a shooting script, with a majority of the scenes remaining intact, and only a few minor changes made for pacing and dramatic effect.

And the scenes where they are stalked as a couple by an armed assassin (played by Salem's Lot's Reggie «Mr. Barlow» Nalder) are all the more tense and dramatic because of how well they have been established.

His voiceover sets the scene, and it's so archly dismissive of an attempt to even feign some sense of dramatic reality, that he may as well be saying, «blah, blah, blah, then some random shit happened, deal with it.»

Laurence impresses as Leila, effectively holding her own on the screen with her shared dramatic scenes with Gyllenhaal.

Apart from the opening scene, which incorporates special effects to help create a massive dry dock that serves as a prison (the prisoners hauling a ship into it with lines as thick as tree trunks), and a few brief establishing shots, which include dramatic rises and falls of the camera through space and time as each new stage of the story begins, Les Misérables keeps us in close — sometimes very close — proximity to the actors.

This trailer packs in the action as well as some more intimate dramatic scenes, and it looks damn good.

The word is already out for McConaughey, who underwent dramatic weight loss to add to his performance, but the scene stealer appears to be Jared Leto as the transvestite Rayon.

She's a positive force, but also an agent of chaos, to the point where Baumbach is just as likely to pick up odd lines, dance moves, and bits of observation from her as he is to stage conventional dramatic scenes.

Despite a background directing slapstick comedies including Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult and Nutty Professor, Segal has a stronger handle on the dramatic elements compared to the scenes played for laughs, which he lets go on for too long as if he's holding out for a bigger payoff that never arrives.

This is incredibly unfortunate since there are several scenes that could have gone darker and as a result would have created some great dramatic tension.

But that is squandered, for the scene climaxes with Cinque making a dramatic outburst that can best be described as a perfect example of the cloying sentimentality that often mars Spielberg films.

Slow - motion and cheesy music negatively impact some of the dramatic moments and the sex scenes... especially an otherwise effective cross-cut between O'Connell and Long as they seduce Thompson and Jacobs, respectively.

Pegg's character remains comic relief, too often his scenes end with the equivalent of a rim shot, but Pegg shows his dramatic chops during a confrontational sequence where he's used as a human bomb.

Luhrmann... confirmed he'd found his man: «In casting Tom one had to find an actor who could credibly be (as Fitzgerald describes him) «one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven,» had five - star acting chops and in the big dramatic showdown scenes between Gatsby and Tom, hold the screen against Leonardo DiCaprio, in the appropriate age group.

The close - ups of animals or plants, or the pastoral images of trees or streams are «very, very inserty - type shots, and yet they have the same kind of dramatic impact» as the spectacular wide shots — or, for that matter, the scenes involving the lead actors.

Evans handles the dramatic scenes as well as he does the action later on, but ultimately this is a story nobody asked to be told, as proved by an intriguing albeit clumsy hint at a sequel that's more enticing than the entire film that preceded it.

It's not so oppressively dark so as to render the comedic scenes in bad taste, and it's also not so outlandish that it detracts from the emotional weight of the more dramatic scenes.

His biggest risk was allowing Joseph Gordon - Levitt (who is quite convincing as Petit in the dramatic and conversation scenes) to narrate the entire film.

All of that being said, there is still some fun to be had here, as the performances from Aaron Taylor - Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, and (especially) Jim Carrey are all extremely fun to watch, the action scenes are exciting and bad - ass, some of the humor really works, and a good amount of the dramatic material is effective.

In the final scenes, seriousness trumps comedy particularly as Paddy gives Billy's fiancé some advice one day before the marriage is to take place, counsel that has dramatic repercussions.

Winchester, as indicated earlier, is largely Dr. Price and Sarah Winchester's story and their scenes together (be they dramatic or scary in nature) are easily the strongest in the film.

Garfield has an inherently likable quality to him that's required in the early scenes, as well as the grit and intensity to pull off the more dramatic material later on.

As you noted, this is merely Part 1 and yet, there was a surprising amount of dramatic heft in those final scenes.

In one dramatic scene he showed how fiercely protective he was of the children as he roughly dispatched a creepy would - be sexual predator from the property.

As for Coogan's performance, it's solid (and refreshing) dramatic work from the actor and he has a couple of standout scenes, but Philomena is really Dench's story.

As a comedy, the laughs are paltry, with most jokes coming from crude insults or innuendo, with the occasional exception of the unintentional chuckles which may be evoked during the hackneyed teary - eyed dramatic scenes.