Sentences with phrase «character open your story»

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This is the opening of The Lunch Line Fight: Looking at Different Perspectives, by Tosca Killoran and Jeff Hoffart, part of a series of 10 paperback books with a focus on citizenship, mindfulness, empathy, character and social - emotional skills, presented in story book format.

It opens with a grabber, features juicy characters and has a discernible story arc, tremendous momentum and a musical score that too often accentuates the obvious.

Every bit as elegant and touching as the opening sequence in «Up», Snape's story brings to light the true genius of J.K. Rowling's books and the characters within them: she knew just how to turn a tale.

The film, which opens today, is a three - character story set in an unspecified South American country (standing in for Mr. Dorfman's native Chile) after the fall of a dictator.

From the top down, this is a show that has such patience and empathy for its characters, even the most minute of roles, that it makes you want to get to know the people around you in real life better, open yourself up to their stories, discover their secrets within.

Director, Hany Abu - Assad crafts a fast - paced, compelling and carefully scribed film with darkly engaging characters and a surprising story that keeps you guessing right to the end and leaves it open.

From the amazing opening case, to the wonderfully written and performed cast of characters, to the CRAZY ending that definitely caught me off guard, but in a good way, D3 really shines in all aspects of the story mode.

A quirky little film with an offbeat trajectory that rattles through the bones of story with eyes open to the texture of experience and the dimensions of character.

The opening and closing cinematics of each character's story is a little lacklustre as well.

Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition ties a fantastic open world game to a strong story and great characters.

SoulWorker's Key Features (during Open Beta) Include: Action - packed cooperative gameplay for up to 4 players, using the Soulum Sword, Mist Scythe, Gun Jazz and Howling Guitar character classes A dark post-apocalyptic setting with a captivating story and impressive cel - shaded animations Customize your battle style with personalized combos and abilities affected by a unique emotion system — madness, euphoria, vengeance and sadness Large PvE content with over 100 dungeons and a PvP Zone for massive battles

Shallow stories and characters and the same formulaic approach to an open world game.

Although Mona dies during the film's opening moments, Midler's title character is revealed through the story's perpetual flashbacks, during which each character's theoretical motive for wanting to kill Mona is disclosed.

Yes, I'm certain there will be more movies and stories to come, especially since the Fox / Disney merger (if it happens) opens up even more characters and storylines.

The opening moments of the story are cutscene laden with little to no action and they all go in detail to setup the backstory and characters for the game.

Controlling a character and going along the story is one thing, but from the beginning till the very end, going through the entire world in an open world game in first person mode via character's eyes, truly redefines the overall gameplay experience.

This original, pretenseless movie opens your eyes to story, characters, and styles that are a welcome departure from the tried and true conventions that feature this time every year.

Speaking to Variety's chief film critic Scott Foundas, Mann discusses growing up in Chicago, becoming interested in crime stories, the visual ideas he had for the film, the nonfiction book he discarded but still credited, the influence of real criminals and past films (particularly his eye - opening time shooting The Jericho Mile in Folsom Prison), choosing Tangerine Dream to do the score (a decision he still second guesses), the film's writing (including basing characters on real crime figures), casting, explosive stunts, changes made from the shooting script, and the modernist narrative.

Like so many other American, Hollywood movies, it tells a story of black culture through the eyes of white characters, and it celebrates white characters that are brave and wise enough to open up to African - Americans.

Still, Blue Is The Warmest Color's drama - queen back story was omnipresent enough that by the time it finally opened in the U.S. this week, I went in half - expecting it to somehow resemble the saga its creators have been enacting before the press, with bitchy, backbiting characters and graphic sex scenes leered over by a voyeuristic camera.

While there's a lot to like about the notion of running around an open world and killing robot dinosaurs, what I really fell in love with in Horizon was the world, characters, and story that the game told.

But it turns out they also opened the official website, which features some details about the Story, Characters, and a bit of Gameplay.

The cinematic opening and the CG story cutscene that starts off the game are truly gorgeous, and I wish that the style shown in them had been implemented throughout the game's other cutscenes, but being able to see the character I created take part in later story - focused cutscenes was a welcome trade - off, especially since they were still smoothly animated and well done.

The story opens on a familiar note, with the death of an anonymous character (played by Billy Burke) at the clawed hands of the monster in an atmospheric locale — in this case, a massive warehouse.

The open world form that this game takes is different from the first two games which were more structured around story arcs and character developments.

«I've become more open to Brian's Mt. Rushmore idea,» Baumbach recently observed in an interview with The New Yorker, «that you come up with characters and a story to justify a great visual set piece.»

From the literal, physical journey of one single heart from one human to another in Heal the Living, to the metaphorical way the heart keeps going even when it stops pumping blood in A Ghost Story, via the discovery of intimacy and the baring of the soul that the characters of Moonlight, Certain Women, Call me By Your Name and God's Own Country all experience as they open up their hearts to life and love - and all that they entail - these films kickstarted my heart, and let the engine roar.

Check out the opening story sequences and the character creation process from Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire.

The Film: 1.66:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, THX - Certified, New Digital Transfer; Spanish, French, and Mandarin Audio Disc 1: Deleted Scenes including Alternate Openings, Audio Commentary, «Keep»Em Guessing» never - before - heard deleted song, DisneyPedia: «Mulan's World», Music Videos: all - new «I'll Make A Man Out Of You» by Jackie Chan, «Reflection» by Christina Aguilera, «True to Your Heart» by 98º and Stevie Wonder, Mulan Fun Facts trivia track Disc 2: The Journey Begins: Discovering Mulan, The Ballad of Hua Mulan, Early Presentation & Progression Reels; Story Artists Journey: Finding Mulan, Storyboard to Film Comparisons; Design: Art, character, and color designs, Still Art Galleries, character design galleries; Production: production demonstrations, Digital Dim Sum, Digital production; Music: «Reflection» music video in Spanish, Songs of Mulan; International Mulan: Mulan's International Journey, Multi-Language Reel, Publicity Art Gallery

The story is quite simple at its core: the evil villain Lord Vortech has opened dimensional rifts in the homes of many beloved Lego characters, causing chaos in their worlds.

The opening segment is the standout, mainly thanks to some great performances by Gosling, Mendes and character actor Ben Mendelsohn, and although the other two stories aren't bad, they're noticeable weaker, causing the film to feel a bit lopsided.

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire contains an enormous open world, a massive cast of characters, beautiful hand - painted backgrounds, and a story you can play your way.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson, 2017) Possible to analytically compare with Jenkin's grand epic, fellow female filmmaker Angela Robinson's narrative tells the story behind Wonder Woman as a cartoon character and becomes a refreshing and bold story of polyamorous love between the visual and narrative creator of Wonder Woman and his two leading ladies (his wife, and his open - minded female student).

In the opening sequence of «The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro's lovely genre - bending love story, there's a fire at a chocolate factory, prompting a character to note that the smell of toasted cocoa in the air blends «horror and delight.»

«Rogue One: A Star Wars Story» opens today, introducing a whole new set of characters to the extended Star Wars universe, played by some actors who may look familiar.

This element, in addition to taking the story to horror, science fiction and fantasy, opens the movie to a direct metaphor of the characters» external and internal conflicts, and to a real representation of what the characters reject and long for.

Boasting a non-linear, open - world map of Depression - era United States to explore, WTWTLW leaves players to uncover its story and characters at their own pace.

The film opens up each character's story and instead of just causing drama, seeks to confront it.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Jack Harper (Tom Cruise), who offers that back story twice (once in an opening narration that unnecessarily hand - feeds information that reveals itself far more naturally in the first act and again to another character), and Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), Jack's live - in communications officer and significant other, are the only two humans left on the planet.

Moonlight took a very subtle approach to it's characters sexuality exploration, opening the story up to any and every human that's ever doubted themselves.

It includes some additional character development - notably Grace's (Sigourney Weaver) back - story and a brief opening sequence on Earth - but most of it involves expanded and enhanced scenes of life on Pandora.

Black Panther is, obviously, a Wakanda story, meaning that its images ripple with Wakanda's specific rhythms and textures; characters» in - jokes and senses of humor seem to open up untold bits of history among them; rituals feel genuinely ritualistic, lived in and specific to the people and the place.

By now, we are accustomed to the smart - assed commentary that disfigured mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (Reynolds) offers as he narrates his life story, but it's still odd to see our main character blow himself to bits in the opening scene.

The script by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray takes a simple opening and then morphs that idea into a Jacob's Ladder - like story in which the sanity of the main character comes into question and we the audience becomes suspicious of everything that they've seen.

She chooses a variety of text types and lengths — from short stories, picture books and poetry to novels, autobiographies and historical diaries — sometimes reading a complete book over a period of time or just an extract, opening chapter, or description of a character or setting.

Covers: - story openings - plot development - descriptive writing - show not tell - character development

This book report project is unique because it is a 2 dimensional student reading response project with a door and two windows that open up to reveal characters and scenes from the story.

This uniquely shaped book report project contains five worksheet templates that assemble into a house with a door and two windows that open up to reveal characters and scenes from the story.

Techniques to create deeper social emotional learning experiences for children will also be covered, including: studying the story illustrations and asking children how characters might feel, discussing alternatives to how a character might feel, asking children how they might feel in a similar situation, asking open - ended questions which allow the child to do the thinking and questions that help children make connections between stories they are reading and real life events.

My novel The Rescuer's Path came out this January, with glowing cover comments from Ursula Le Guin («exciting, physically vivid, and romantic»), Cheryl Strayed («held me from the first page to the end»), and many other noted authors whose opinions, one would think, would count with the media; yet, except a notice in Small Press Review («lyrical and poetic, the characters vividly drawn, the story captivating») and elsewhere, and mostly 5 - star Amazon reviews, media critics and bookstores will not so much as open the book.