Sentences with phrase «core of the story»

«I was thrilled with what I was able to keep in, which was the emotional core of the story,» he says.

Although A Monster Calls has elements of fantasy and adventure, the real core of the story is Conor's attempts to cope with the kind of outsized emotions that even adults are ill - equipped to handle: love, loss, and grief.

Flayed as a «troublemaker», Andy Barclay (Justin Whalin) is the emotionally atrophied core of the story and adult figures simply aren't amenable to his plight about «killer dolls».

If some of the mumbo jumbo were cut out, not only would it tighten the film, it would also make the essential core of the story, the chase, more dynamic.

Don't let the nondescript title put you off: this riveting, beautifully made film documents a lost species, a photojournalist who always sought the true, personal core of a story, regardless of what editors, politicians or...

The relationships between Thor, Loki and Odin also provide the dramatic core of the story, and as they're quite Shakespearean in nature, it's right up Branagh's alley.

While Moaz employs some technical tricks that smack of over-direction — dramatic overhead shots, swiveling cameras — the emotional core of his story sends shockwaves.

The special effects, courtesy of Weta Digital, are beautiful and the emotional core of the story is never lost as a consequence of the big budget sequences, only heightened.

Such personality and attitudinal differences are the real core of this story... even more than the true life inspired story of a quest to reunite a mother and child after 50 years.

Relationships with customers and its employees, says Trinity president Anthony Magaraci, are at the core of its story.

So before you get down to work on your script, ask yourself what's most relevant to the core of the story I want to tell?

I'm a lot more interested in the humanity that's at the core of these stories.

And it's not as if that message is tacked onto the movie in an arbitrary way; it's really placed at the core of the story, and it bleeds through every scene, almost to the point of overkill.

Yes, it might have a few ideas that are semi-unique, but the core of the story is rehashed, that you disagree with that makes it know less true.

If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

The reason he is inadmissible lies at the core of the story.

Carver, like Dubus, shies not away from difficult situations, but his open - eyed starkness is not to be confused with indifference; at the core of his stories is a softness akin to the coziest of reading nooks.

The core of the story falls into this portion, giving it quite the emotional impact for it's viewers.

David's professional and love - life struggles take the movie down a series of tangents that may distract him from his mother's illness (while featuring and creating problems of their own), but they mainly end up distracting from the core of the story.

He is also at the core of this story — every bit as much as Ms. Shepherd, the lady in the van.

Vera Farmiga pulls off one hell of a performance here and is truly the emotional core of the story, I believed every line she read and every emotion and mannerism she showed.

The cast is immense, almost to its detriment; we spend so much time juggling supporting characters that we sometimes lose the core of the story, which is Tatum - Foxx action movie antics in the White House.

But it's really a core of the story that she's telling and it has an epic, epic quality to it.

At the core of this story is an extremely painful, but thrilling, romance.

Yet at the same time, this new film is too concerned with being level - headed and realistic, to properly restore the sense of irrational, overwhelming and primal fear that is at the core of the story and which constitutes the true basis of identity for each of the characters.

What happens to Ender and those closest to him are the core of the story.

Holland is clearly a very talented actor and the story might have benefitted from more development of his internal and external journey in parallel with the journey at the core of the story.

The mommy issues and brother issues drive the need for validation and are at the core of story here, as are ego, «patriotism», and ultimately delusion.

At the core of the story, that is the only thing that Marina (Daniela Vega) wants — to see the body of her lover, who dies suddenly, unexpectedly, and outside of her view.

Their relationship is the core of the story, and it's a core that ultimately feels one - sided.

Q: The core of the story in the 1991 movie was the bro - mance and the romantic triangle with the girl, but the action scenes are stronger in this movie.

That was as important to me as bringing the big spectacle; it's about making sure that you've got this young man and this woman - this love affair - that you're rooting for at the core of the story.

Coogler's decision to only follow Oscar, however, illuminates the humanity at the core of the story.

Written by the Spierig Brothers from an earlier script draft by Tom Vaughan (Unstoppable), Winchester unfolds as a by the numbers haunted house film, complete with a disbelieving protagonist whose backstory plays a central role in the narrative, and a big supernatural baddie at the core of the story's conflict.

Teller, who receives news of the film's climax over a walkie - talkie, is kept at a distance from the emotional core of the story; that removed feeling, unfortunately, is shared by us.

Although certain preconceived notions may drive some viewers to label the homosexual relationship at the core of the story as niche cinema, they'll soon be proven wrong and left speechless, realising that director Luca Guadagnino and his brilliant cast have masterfully told a universal story about first love which transcends any possible label.

It is here that the core of the story becomes centred towards the friendship of the trio, and this is both a touching and juxtaposing element to the insane and entertaining ride the film attempts to assemble.

Surprisingly, there was little mention of history or even the dinosaur species that are at the core of the story.

The core of the story is fine, centered on a sibling rivalry between T.J. Miller and Jennifer Aniston's characters bickering over having the eponymous Christmas party and other gloomy subjects for the holidays, such as laying off 40 % of Clay's (T.J. Miller) branch.

Knew the core of the story but so glad I didn't see trailers.

Her struggle is at the core of the story.

It is not until we get to layer three in the 1960s and four in the late 1930s that the core of our story takes off.

They wanted to embrace the emotional core of the story.»

Because the squabbling Asgardian Siblings (and their dad) are at the core of the story for Thor: The Dark World, Chris Hemsworth's Thor, Tom Hiddleston's Loki and Anthony Hopkins» Odin have all had their due in poster form.

Westley and Buttercup truly love each other, Inigo thirsts for revenge, the Six - Fingered Man (Christopher Guest) is sadistic and cruel, and the cast never belittles the emotional cores of the story.

The plot so revolves around Officers Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Mike Zavala (Michael Pena) that most of the secondary characters simply seem there to interact with the dynamic duo at the core of the story.

Although the bad guys play the catalyst of the plot and provide reason for the many impressive action sequences, the core of the story really revolves around Kirk and Spock.

Frank Darabont, writer and director of such classics as The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Mist, discusses adapting works by Stephen King and keeping his characters at the core of the story.

That being said, there's a strong morality at the core of this story.

With the sexuality of a boy at the core of the story, the writing supporting it should be meticulous; otherwise, the author's exploration of a risky subject can easily be reduced to a gimmick.