Sentences with phrase «classic tropes»
"Classic tropes" refers to common themes, elements, or patterns that are frequently found in literature, movies, or other forms of storytelling. They are commonly used and recognized by many people, and may include things like a hero's journey, love at first sight, or a twist ending. Full definition
His needlepoint pieces starring actresses and models as Madonna with child, created in Italy in the late»90s, collide classic tropes with a more familiar, dynamic modernity.
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Crossing Souls is a serviceable action - adventure fueled by 1980s nostalgia, but its dependence on classic tropes isn't enough to make it remarkable.
Artist's Response: The grass is always greener on the other side Saturday 12 June 2010, 1.00 pm, New Galleries, IMMA Mark Joyce, the Irish painter and IADT lecturer, will speak in the context of his own practice, exploring classic tropes found in manifestos of artists and composers in the Modernist period and how this may have informed Morton Feldman's relationship with the visual arts.
Sticker Star's lavish tapestry of neat touches keeps you pushing forwards in spite of the wonky puzzling and boring combat, and its vibrant, buoyant world marries so well with the script's deliciously wry take on Mario's classic tropes.
It follows the classic tropes of the romance genre, enhanced with nuanced performances that elevate what might otherwise be stock characters in a plot with few surprises.
As if to invert the classic tropes and mad dog characterisations made famous by Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune's Samurai films, Blade of the Immortal shrewdly skewers the idea that honour can be achieved through sacrifice and death.
Moore would not reveal any details on just how the film plans to subvert those classic tropes.
This raunchy look at growing up in a broken home hits all of the classic tropes with panache — living in the shadow of an older sibling, an absentee mother, nursing a crush on the high - school bad boy and the student - teacher friendship.
It adds another dimension to the classic tropes of a Mario game; a physical element that makes you think of your hand movements as well as your hand - eye coordination and traditional gaming skills.
Blancanieves is both a silent movie and a movie musical; both a traditional fairy tale and a brand new re-imagining of classic tropes; it is at once gorgeous and moving, hilarious and bittersweet.
by A.F. Stewart Every genre has its classic tropes and fantasy is no exception.
As a master of literary fiction in the American Gothic tradition, Jackson always subverted the trappings of genre, using the classic tropes of the haunted house and the mysterious villagers to illustrate deep cultural and personal anxieties.
Notably, Fifty Shades of Grey, despite all of the sex and BDSM, follows most of the classic tropes of romance novels.
To get started, let's revisit a classic trope from old times: what I expected, what I wanted, and what I got.
With a fully realised transport system, all the classic tropes of city - builders gone past, and beautiful (and hugely moddable) features, at this price it's worth seeing what all the fuss is about!
It adds another dimension to the classic tropes of a Mario game; a physical element that makes you think of your hand movements as well as your hand - eye coordination and traditional gaming skills.
A definite return to form for the series, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is, to me, the most atmospheric entry in the series and, free from many of the narrative constraints of the early games, manages to forge out an entirely new chapter in the Resident Evil universe whilst still paying homage to classic tropes and even characters.
The artist's studio, a classic trope from art history, here takes the form of an inventory, not a peek behind the scenes but an attempt to create a cartographical representation of what this space and its constituents mean to Wolfgang Tillmans.
Among the grandest of Eisenman's recent paintings are the beer gardens — a classic trope, along with the cabaret, of German Expressionism.
Being a stranger (to a land, a house, or oneself) is a classic trope of horror genre scenarios.
Joyce explores some of the classic tropes of early modernism, autonomous form, light as material, and the vertiginous and optimistic rhetoric of colour put forward in manifestos by artists and composers in the modernist period.
«There's been Sid Meier's Pirates, Monkey Island, etc., but no one's really done this multiplayer, shared world pirate game that hits the classic tropes you'd expect.»