Sentences with phrase «documentary framing device»

In retrospect, I can't help wondering if the documentary framing device might be surplus to requirements.

He gets off on the wrong foot from the get - go by opting for a faux - documentary framing device that has his characters» present - day incarnations speaking directly to the camera.

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Then, in an obvious gimmick, he couches his weak story inside the framing device of a faux - documentary.

While the framing device wasn't exactly revolutionary — documentary - style footage of the conflict between mankind and alien life — the Johannesburgian director's blend of visual panache with hard - hitting themes such as apartheid and political corruption reestablished a healthy pulse for the genre.

Had that photographer seen the documentary to follow, by the time this scene, used as a cyclical framing device, is returned to, he'd understand why a smile might not be so forthcoming.

Bracketed by a clumsy framing device that sees Bradley Whitford pretending he's in a documentary, ISTL begins with Hank's marriage to honky - tonk queen Audrey Sheppard (Elizabeth Olsen) and follows him through his rocky rise to post-war fame as «The Hillbilly Shakespeare».