Sentences with phrase «classic movie tropes»

We see this type of passive teacher in the classic movie trope that we love in fictional narratives.

Not exact matches

For his 1992 comeback hit, The Player, he satirized film - industry politics with the tropes of a classic crime movie.

But it is of a piece with the rest of the movie, which plays less like a classic gangster film than like a 99 percent pure, Heisenberg - quality, blue - crystal distillation of all the tropes and themes and moods of the classic gangster film.

Though the «sex equals death» rule isn't as prominent in modern horror movies that defy those decades - old tropes, «It Follows» is very much a retro homage to «70s and «80s genre classics, from the «Halloween» - esque synth score, to the striking similarities to «Nightmare on Elm Street,» both in Jay's perpetual helplessness and the film's dreamlike atmosphere.

The film takes all the tropes of the classic gangster movie and, whilst never skimping on the violence or seediness, presents something slicker, more complicated.

Wrapping itself with references to movie tropes, such as its overt allusion to classic Christmas tales like A Christmas Carol — in which Michael Shannon appears in a drug - deal version of Ghosts of Christmas Past / Present / Future — it never avidly mocks the traditions but instead embraces its ridiculousness, alongside Rogen's trademark crass humour.

Not just a classic Hollywood blockbuster and a landmark sci - fi movie, T2 presents a twist on the trope of machines that kill: the idea of a guardian machine programmed to protect humans rather than destroy them.