Sentences with phrase «disembodied voices of»

As his relationship with the disembodied voice of Scarlett Johansson progresses it's easy to embrace the illusion that they are really right there with one another.
Carrie Fisher, famous for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy, portrays the disembodied voice of propaganda blaring throughout the city.
The atmosphere is unnerving and early on you just have the disembodied voice of Yorkshire man, the mysterious Prepper to keep you company.
It oozes style too, with a gorgeous hand - drawn art style, amazing character design, and some fantastic audio — particularly the disembodied voice of your ancestor, narrating your victories and failures in a deep somber tone.

Not exact matches

A Human - Voiced Resumebrands you as a person with a path and a story, not a disembodied bundle of skills.
Tolstoy, for instance, is an epic writer, whose books overflow with physical details and frequently threaten to overflow their own narrative structures and become as vast and as inconclusive as life itself, while Dostoevsky is a dramatic writer, whose books are full of fraught and urgent voices, at times almost disembodied, trapped in situations of immediate and pressing crisis, and surrounded by a physical world usually having no more substance than a collection of painted canvasses or pasteboard silhouettes at the back of the stage.
The centerpiece of the Twinsburg festival was a giant tent where a disembodied voice — rather reminiscent, I felt, of the recorded last remarks of Jim Jones — was calling twins to the stage above a sludge of constant applause and awarding prizes to the most identical.
We tune in to watch Steve and his callow protégé, Dave Tango, hunched exhaustedly in an Econo Lodge room, growing stubblier before our eyes as they «review» hours of low - grade audio for that moment when, amid an ocean of hiss, a disembodied voice might just possibly be saying «Chrisss.»
Before long, Harold can hear this narrator too, and like any sensible human being he's alarmed by the idea of some disembodied voice following him about and commenting on his actions with an air of snarky detachment.
But as the weeks go by, Ray receives several other messages from a disembodied voice, one of which is «Ease his pain.»
Scarlett Johansson's artificially intelligent Samantha may not have a body, but the way that she laughs at the jokes of protagonist Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) makes us immediately understand how he could fall for a disembodied voice.
The flatness is a selling point because of the film's unique audio design; the disembodied voices sound completely isolated as they should.
The disembodied voice tells you that you are instead the Builder, a different sort of chosen one, one with the power to create and change the world, one who can reshape and save Alefgard, one who... By this point in the recitation of your destiny, your Builder has nodded off from boredom; Dragon Quest Builders is not exactly heavy or overly serious in its plotlines.
Since the film really has only two main characters, with one of them being a disembodied voice, was the casting process difficult in terms of finding the right actresses to play Emily and Sylvia?
Co-starring Kathryn Hahn and Shirley MacLaine as Walter's sister and mother, plus Patton Oswalt as a disembodied eHarmony customer service voice that's constantly calling Walter and therefore continuously reminding the audience of Walter's growth (the dialogue is unfortunately that artless), «Walter Mitty» boasts a strong cast, but one misused by a pedestrian script that embraces clichés and places conventional, groan - worthy conclusions at the end of each storyline shared by Walter and every major character he's met.
My hunch is that Pasek & Paul have crafted a terrific score, but the film buries it in pounding, processed, overdubbed orchestrations that make the voices sound disembodied and auto - tuned out any traces of human nuance.
A series of pans and lateral tracks explores the Bishop household in studied tableaux, each isolated member of the family captured in their native habitat, while on a 45rpm record a disembodied voice guides listeners through the works of Benjamin Britten.
Sure, hes just a disembodied voice coming out of a pre-war ZAX supercomputer with a major lust for the Presidents of old, but he leads his troops with gusto, largely thanks to being voiced by Malcolm McDowell.
This is one where the members of the U.S. Supreme Court are blurred out, where their actual disembodied voices call upon the lawyers, with the ramifications of the case on point rather than the machinations of the brash lawyers.
DVD special features are ample, anchored by a feature - length audio commentary track with director Alvart and producer Jeremy Bolt, in which the pair discuss Alvart's late - in - the - game, pre-production idea of depicting the effects of years of hyper - sleep via sloughing skin, as well as the special challenges involved for Foster in crafting a performance out of reacting to Quaid's disembodied voice, since more than half of his material was prerecorded, before the younger actor's scenes.
As a strange coalescence of romance, comedy, drama, and sci - fi, the pic is another terrific showcase for legend - in - the - making Joaquin Phoenix, while Scarlett Johansson impresses in what's arguably her most challenging role to date — a disembodied voice.
A disembodied voice, a protagonist who seems to haunt their home rather than live in it, a foreboding sense of unease — this film has David Lynch's strange fingerprints all over it from the start.
Like Chain, it's narrated mostly by two voices — a disembodied quasi-authorial male voice (Gary Merrill, pretentiously identified as «The Poet» in the credits) and that of Baxley (whom Merrill addresses and questions in the manner of a confessor).
This film is inundated with Miles Teller doing such a carbon copy of Johan Hill's speech patterns that the audience gets tripped up every time the disembodied voice - over narration comes on.
One reality is made to spill into another, and some of the loveliest developments — the humanizing of a disgruntled baker (Lyle Lovett) who we've encountered mainly as the disembodied telephone voice of a crank caller, and a mix - up of snapshots between two clusters of characters at a Fotomat — can be described as exercises in dialectical relativity that come about when separate fictional worlds in the movie are briefly made to converge.
As the wrought - iron mansion gates opened in front of me, with Christopher Cross breezing from the stereo, the Evoque's disembodied female GPS voice murmured «you've arrived.»
He could perhaps even outstrip Vaas as one of the best villains in videogames if it wasn't for the simple fact that after the intro he largely disappears, becoming little more than a disembodied voice on the radio and only an occasional presence on screen.
And if all of that is a little confusing then you've a helpful disembodied voice that gives you advice on what weapons to take for each mission.
It does this by occasionally stopping the action so that Sam can have a conversation with one of the many disembodied voices which run the military.
The voice work of the game's disembodied narrator could use some work in some spots, but overall it could be worse.
With the help of a mysterious disembodied voice you must seize the tools of game development from these unworthy gods and uncover the darkly comical story as you go.
A disembodied robotic voice that sounds sort of like a crazy radio host from the 40s will narrate the battle.
It seems clear that this disembodied voice has cribbed some meta - notes from GLADOS of Portal and the intrepid narrator of The Stanley Parable.
Children appear on double - exposed screens as the spectral spirits of beehives, forests and rivers while disembodied voices attempt to describe ghostly phenomena seen in nature.
Traversing the long walkway that leads to the Sol LeWitt wall drawings exhibition, you hear disembodied voices (recordings of the eight - member vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth) singing in brief harmonies (thirds and fifths), and holding sustained microtones.
Is the body a disembodied voice or a hooded and shielded spectre, audible but not visible, visible but covered in fog surrounded by a pack of barking dogs performing alongside a pack of humans singing?
We're so used to disembodied voices, we don't even think about it anymore, but when I imagine it through my son's eyes it seems so exemplary of our contemporary condition.»
On a dark and chilly top floor, a hologram of Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster in the guise of the opera singer Maria Callas (OPERA [QM.15], 2016) produces an eerie dissonance between a spectral body seen at a distance and the disembodied proximity of Callas's voice.
Featuring puppets, animated characters and disembodied voices, these stories convey moments of observation, reflection, conspiracy and connection.
Philipsz's room in this year's Turner prize exhibition at Tate Britain consisted of her disembodied, recorded voice singing the 16th - century traditional Scottish song, Lowlands Away.
In the context of a heightened awareness of fake news, the demands of emotional labour and a proliferation of digitally manipulated disembodied voices in public space, the artists ask «what is laughter without the bodies that produce it?».
«Complete darkness and we only acknowledge sensation, what we feel and hear and see, and not what we know... flashes of light leave 3D images lingering on our retinas as they join the other sensations, as does my disembodied guiding voice
His image does not appear on the screen, rather visitors see a red spotlight and hear the audio of his disembodied voice which is paired with the words in his act, displayed caption - style on the screen against a black background.
asks a disembodied voice in one of Eva Papamargariti's glitchy video works.
Among redundant antibacterial gel dispensers and whited - out calendars, a disembodied voice gives a detailed description of bodily decay (filament proteins, anaerobic bacteria, putrefaction and «molecular death»).
Walk through Kassel for long enough (which you certainly will if you come to to this sprawling exhibition) and you'll find yourself spinning around at least once looking for the source of a disembodied voice.
The article tells the story of a man who, following the directions of the disembodied voice, found himself staring out over a 200 - foot cliff in New Mexico.
Whether an ad hoc group of people concerned with seniors» issues in Kingston, workers in specialized community clinics, representatives of sexual assault crisis centres from across the province, workers» organization, lawyers» and accountants» associations, to mention a few, these contacts have meant that the LCO isn't just a website or an email, a consultation paper, or even a disembodied voice on the telephone.
Alexa, Siri, Google, and even Cortana are household names, and we just sort of accepted the idea that a disembodied, vaguely human - sounding voice can help us do routine tasks.
Amazon denies that rumors Alexa will start serving ads, but there's really no reason not to start offering more and more paid promotions of this variety if customers» comfort level with disembodied corporate voices talking to them continues to rise.
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