Sentences with phrase «as fictional heroes»

But underneath all the immersion that comes from playing as these fictional heroes, I do have to wonder if the development team is trying to do a little too much at once with this game.

Not exact matches

They built their whole society around the fictional fantasy capers on the show and glorified the heroes as divine.

Both men had broken the super hero - Moore by showing him to be a male power fantasy, Morrison by showing him, quite literally, to be fictional - «paper people» as he put it.

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen: It's difficult not to praise Katniss simply on the grounds of being an excellent role model — she's the type of fictional hero we should be giving our focus to.

Ditching the MCU's familiar roster of heroes (they don't get as much as a mention) along with many of the basics of the Marvel film formula, Ryan Coogler has turned Black Panther into a highly personal crowd - pleaser in the vein of his last film, the Rocky sequel Creed, but with all the idiosyncrasies and intrigues afforded by its main setting, the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.

Schwarzenegger stars in a dual role, as fictional action hero character Jack Slater, and also as himself.

The ideal candidate for this material would be David Fincher or perhaps Steven Soderbergh; Stone's corny, indiscriminate direction recasts Snowden (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) as the brooding, fist - clenching hero of a bogus spy movie, complete with a couple of fictional mentors played by Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage.

As said in a fictional HBO Sports broadcast during the film,» people find hope in the tales of their heroes» - this one happens to be his dad.

And you know what, we would love to see Kendrick walking around in the fictional African nation of Wakanda as a rival to the hero.

The title character is a fictional Italian plumber who serves as the hero of a realm called the Mushroom Kingdom.

Chadwick Boseman, who portrays the titular hero, revealed what he knows of the fictional country, describing it as a utopia.

Its hero, Jefferson Pierce, played by Cress Williams, has the power to control electricity and shoot lightning bolts from his hands, but when the story begins he is in retirement as a school principal in the fictional city of Freeland.

Like Cervantes» fictional hero Don Quixote — an appropriate analogy since their narratives are also the stuff of fiction — they charge at windmills, dragons of their own making, including teacher unions, underperforming district administrators and, in some cases, such as in Bridgeport, democratically elected school boards, all in the name of the fixing the «crisis» in American education.

After reading this book I have claimed Richard Dawkins as a brave hero and have embraced atheism as a compassionate, pro-human, pro-civilization, unifying body of work that promises salvation of this planet from harmful mythologies and horribly divisive fictional, outdated belief systems.

«The hero's journey,» also known as the «monomyth,» is, in many opinions, the most popular template for writing fictional stories since the days of historical mythology.

«Tragically» may be an exaggeration, as are the numerous cutscenes that hamper on the subject of Marian's death; while the original game was innovative with its controversial murder of the main hero's girlfriend at a time when fictional character deaths were uncommon in videogames (even the NES version did not skimp on this detail), Wander of the Dragons force - feeds you with endless sequences that make the subtle character death feel cheap and exploitative.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes also has open - world pretensions, throwing players into an enormous Manhattan map complete with recognisable landmarks both real (such as the cheekily - winking Lady Liberty) and fictional (the Daily Bugle HQ), which we're free to explore at our own pace.