Sentences with phrase «basic plot»

The top 50 YA books share dozens of identical elements and the same basic plot lines and characters.

Using newer voice actors, most of whom are spot on, this version has some of the same basic plot points as the original.

The weekly sessions include in - depth character profiles, basic plot structure / beat sheets, where to start your novel, and the challenges of writing the middle of your novel.

Both have relatively basic plots, with the latter being a little more «meaty,» however.

It's a pretty basic plot, yes, but the cast does a good job to keep you from noticing, for the most part.

The story behind both games is simple enough and they share basic plot ideas.

He created the entire basic plot, developed the main characters, and directed the overall atmosphere and visual style for the game.

The game takes its titular «creed» and basic plot from the 1938 novel Alamut, a statement against the rise of fascism in Italy, and manages to morph the game into an interrogation of the war on terror.

Present them with the novels to be studied for a particular unit (basic plot summary, reading level, book length, etc.) and let students choose which book they are each most interested in.

Very good direction, acting and dialog are apparent in Sebastian, but a fatal flaw in basic plotting makes this production just a moderately entertaining Cold War comedy - drama.

That's why we created the Weekly Film Guide, filled with basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week's fresh offerings.

In his book, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, he gives a detailed outline of each story type as well as a wealth of examples from ancient myths, folk tales, plays and novels.

Western movies about the Asian continent typically star an audience surrogate — someone to whom the other characters can explain basic plot stuff for the sake of viewers.

It's difficult to notice, really, since new lead Lucas Black (Jarhead, Friday Night Lights) resembles the star of the other two films, Paul Walker, as well as the film following the same basic plot revolving around the arena of street racing.

Retro Studios» Metroid Prime offered an elegant solution: players are offered a very simple and basic plot at the beginning of the game, and ample motivation to move forward and finish the game.

One of the oldest and most basic plots goes thus: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl.

Director Peyton Reed (Down With Love, Yes Man) shows a knack for managing and integrating effects, though he occasionally seems thrown by the movie's competing comic sensibilities, which swing from improv-esque deadpan (Adam McKay assisted with rewrites) to complicated audiovisual gags, like the montages that accompany Luis» convoluted explanations of basic plot points.

Do you like Ben 10 One of the oldest and most basic plots goes thus: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl.

Where The Wild Bunch and McCabe & Mrs. Miller take the same basic plot devices and turn them into savage / lovely reveries of male - male and male - female dynamics, The Train Robbers reduces them to predictable, sentimental goo for the laborious inspection of the vegetative and otherwise undemanding viewer.

So you start with the author's argument [basic plot], touch on supporting evidence [characters and a major scene or two], what works or doesn't [ditto], and how it fits in the literature [what other books it resembles or contrasts with].

I remembered I didn't like it, and from playing it again, I didn't remember basic plot outlines, so can't imagine I got...

Kluteand Comes a Horsemanare but two special cases of the same basic plot overlay: tough professional man saves woman from villainy and from herself, winning her heart in the process.

Unfortunately, Wells's screenplay doesn't fare as well narratively, adhering to the original films basic plot structure with little invention.

Hitchcock could have done so much more with this material, but then again, he already did variations on the same basic plot elements (innocent man accused, dangerous «friends», swapping indiscretions, murderer in suburbia, etc.) throughout his career.

Because the show is written [and I use the term loosely, here — no part of the show is immune to improvisation within a fixed basic plot] by so few people [Denis Leary, Peter Tolan, Mike Martineau and Evan Reilly], there is a unity of vision — and it's execution — that is unique.

If a film COULD be really good, if it has a good cast, a good basic plot or idea it centers around and uses interesting camera techniques to tell the story, but turns out to be an insulting, stupid, arrogant vanity project for the director, it's the worst kind of movie there is.

The audio commentary track includes Director Jason Reitman, Director of Photography Eric Steelberg, and First Assistant Director / Associate Producer Jason A. Blumenfeld, it provides basic plot and production information.

Working backwards with a reverse - engineered narrative, the Mark Jackson - helmed film (he directed the critically acclaimed «Without «-RRB- almost acts as an intriguing mystery initially, withholding any real disclosure of basic plot information, but rather suggesting everything.

The Technomancer's basic plot takes quite a while to get going, with the opening occurring within a single town as the player acts as an obvious tool in the machinations of more important characters.

Famed comic book writer (and unfortunately the scribe of the afore - mentioned Iron Man game), Matt Fraction, has penned a very basic plot, but it is at least unobtrusive.

Since you will be spending a lot of time communicating with customers, it is important that you know when a new book will come out, and basic plots of books that you are selling.

The game's basic plot line involves your created character ending up in a plane crash, but surviving it, only to find themselves in a new world, with new powers that the normal inhabitants do not possess.

So it is with Kon's latest film, Tokyo Godfathers, a remake in basic plot and spirit of Ford's 1948 film 3 Godfathers.

I agree that diversity is a non issue in games, and only matters to minorities looking for jobs... But your lack of basic plot structure tells me you are unsure of what you say.

In the 2004 book, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, Christopher Booker analyzes the history of stories and the deeper meaning behind them.

Built on crazy special effects work and even zanier antics, Waititi and screenwriters Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost avoid these lulls, perpetually pushing forward lots of in - jokes for MCU fans, and plenty of spoof - tinged moments to draw you into the peculiar world of comedy contained within a relatively basic plot structure.

This notice will be a safe space, incidentally, with a trigger warning only for basic plot points and material already in the public domain.

It's a pretty basic plot - until the film attempts to pull in a series of side stories, including government conspiracy, a secret society, and even a romantic through - line - all of which require on - the - nose and disjointed exposition that weighs down any potential for dramatic tension.

Instead, the movie makes use of the earlier films» basic plot device (man turns involuntarily canine at the most inopportune moments) and hauls it into the New Millennium, adding plenty of computer generated effects, throwing in a politically correct storyline about the evils of animal experimentation, and making the humor a little ruder and cruder.

Following the same basic plot as Infernal Affairs, mob boss Frank Costello (Nicholson) has his adopted son Colin Sullivan (Damon) infiltrate the Massachusetts State Police to give him a man on the inside.

Outside of some blood splatters going across the screen there really isn't much to it, other than the basic plot, which is that the story is set in post-Civil War Wyoming during a blizzard.

By LEWIS JOHNSON — Co-Chief Investment Officer February 8, 2018 Thoughtful Investing is About «Staying Rich» or «Getting Rich Slowly» In his 2004 book «The Seven Basic Plots,» Christopher Booker famously outlines his belief that there are only seven basic plot lines in all of literature.

As Schmidt notes, his pilgrimage thus drew its basic plot from the Christianity it was rejecting.

The basic plot of many kinds of porn is the overcoming of a woman's resistance so thoroughly that she is gratefully orgasmic.

The basic plot of the novel stems from the final Jesuit mission to Japan in 1643, in which several Jesuit priests apostatized after interrogation and torture by the Inquisitor Inoue.

A Christmas Kiss & A Christmas Kiss II — Ok, both of these movies have the same basic plot (like really) but they are cheesy, happy, feel - good stories that will leave you smiling & feeling festive!

The basic plot is this: Michelle is unhappy.

While this is a remake in terms of structure and basic plot, it's completely different in terms of the comedy and general atmosphere.

It's in this greyed - out, apocalyptic scenario that Bryan Singer's film lays out its basic plot line: with their backs against the wall in the present tense, the X-Men (or what's left of them following a series of Sentinel raids) opt to send Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)-- or at least his consciousness — back in time 50 years so that his younger self can try to alter this chronology — a scheme that nods to H.G. Wells and Harlan Ellison (as well as the X-Men comics series).