Sentences with phrase «dramatic conflict»

Your samples should demonstrate an understanding of dramatic conflict and skill with dialogue.

A deliberately paced literary film that takes too long to build narrative momentum and explore its central dramatic conflicts.

They took an art - film approach to making their horror - comedy, including biting dialogue and dramatic conflict along with well - done horror special effects and a variety of sight gags.

Your samples should demonstrate an understanding of dramatic conflict and skill with dialogue.

Eschewing dramatic changes in her approach to painting as much as dramatic conflict within any particular work, Martin depends for her surprises on the degree to which the effects of her paintings can vary within severe limits.

The visual effects are predictably excellent — sometimes, in the case of a three - man free fall through space, unexpectedly lyrical — but most of the movie's dramatic conflicts feel strictly pro forma.

There are hiccups in its ambition, but it's hard not to get swept up in all the technologies, characters, and politics crammed into the movie's compelling dramatic conflict, which casts the charismatic Michael B. Jordan — the star of Creed and Coogler's debut, Fruitvale Station — as the most complex villain in the post-Dark Knight cycle of superhero blockbusters.

(In theater and life, in - laws can often be counted on for dramatic conflict.)

But for Coates, that choice created possibilities for tense dramatic conflicts.

He has paternal feelings for his adopted daughter Gamora that create valid dramatic conflict.

exclaims Sheen's Blair, in pure sitcom fashion, about the royals) and broad caricature (specifically James Cromwell's Prince Philip, who envisions the crowned heads as exiled victims and the gathering crowds as encroaching «Zulus») while repeatedly hammering home its central old school - versus - new - school themes until Tracy Ullman, in a CNN interview, blatantly summarizes the film's primary dramatic conflict.

The constant threat of an advancing waterline and doubts from group members as to the validity of Scott's leadership, in particular from surly police detective Mike Rogo (Ernest Borgnine), develop into juicy dramatic conflict.

Based on this movie's unhappy open ending, there are clear plans for a John Wick: Chapter 3, but unless they refocus on meaningful characters and dramatic conflict beyond slaughter, I will not be there to watch it.

Jules» struggle as a successful career woman trying to balance work and family is ripe with dramatic conflict, but it's not nearly as entertaining, particularly when Meyers is so staunchly in her protagonist's corner that the audience is never given the chance to pass judgement for themselves.

There's no denying that the characters in FFX were clichés, but they were clichés with chemistry and narrative purpose, they were clichés who had to deal with several dramatic conflicts / plot - points which resulted in interesting interactions on their part, the XIII characters just feel like they're going through the motions.

The fundamental dramatic conflict is a young girl looking for her older sister, who's been erased from time.

But Megamind quickly becomes as bored as the audience is with the lack of dramatic conflict.

For a little while, it's almost a breath of fresh air that Falcone and McCarthy ignore the stalwart plotting device known as dramatic conflict, especially when it allows McCarthy the opportunity to perform extended, non-sequitur comedy showcases.

Directed by Creed and Fruitvale Station's Ryan Coogler, Black Panther veers from the template established by Marvel's previous 18 films by introducing a complex, charismatic villain, employing a compelling dramatic conflict, and cutting back on those pesky cameos.

This dramatic conflict of empowerment hope in the face of disenfranchising reality is being played again, it seems, by telecomputed MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons [= fantasies] / Dimensions) and MUSES (Multi-User Simulated Environments.)

The dramatic conflicts intended to anchor the comedic parts are rushed and insubstantial.

Ultimately, though, Thanos uses each of the Infinitely Exploitable Plot Devices to break all the conventional rules of dramatic conflict, bending space and time in whatever way necessary to advance the plot toward inevitable cataclysm from which the heroes will cathartically, and absurdly, return.

Whereas the earlier sections suffered from an absence of dramatic conflict — Philippe is immune to doubt, averse to introspection and impossible to argue with — the Manhattan chapters hum with practical, tactical excitement.

Once the dramatic conflict grabs hold, it slams to a stop and starts to

How does this portrayal add to the dramatic conflict in this film?

Interestingly, the straightforward making - of piece claims the movie's trumped - up - feeling dramatic conflict — the investigation into Sully's conduct — happened to come after Sully published his memoir, which is why it has no basis in the book.

Perhaps this genteel approach may make the movie accessible to a wider audience, but the script often straitjackets the dramatic conflict of the story, which concerns a married Danish artist who undergoes gender - reassignment surgery in 1920s Europe.

It's a shame to say so, but perhaps it would have helped «The Way Back» if Peter Weir had relaxed his standards slightly, slipped in some dramatic conflict and made better use of that pretty Polish girl.

What's missing here is any sense whatsoever of dramatic conflict.

With multiplexes full of flat cardboard characters who represent the black and white extremes of dramatic conflict, it's a refreshing change to see a cast of characters of varying shades of gray.

The dramatic conflict is real because as Samantha begins thinking and feeling for herself, and grows closer to Theodore, he begins making the same judgments and pedantic criticisms of her that affected his previous relationship.

There are grace notes of the same sorts of themes — grief, loneliness and misplaced attraction — plumbed in something like 12 & Holding, another snapshot of cusp - of - pubescence turmoil, but the nitty - gritty of dramatic conflict and the acting here are not up to snuff, quite simply.

Anthony Russo: For us, that's the heart of any conflict in the movie, whether it be a dramatic conflict, or an action conflict.

Remember that there are two kinds of dramatic conflict — internal and external — and that a good story develops both.

Ethel Schwabacher's big red Antigone I (1958), for example — the first painting seen upon entering the exhibition — is a riot of offbeat color juxtapositions and tightly wrought gesticulation that carries the dramatic conflict of the classical tragedy beyond its narrative and into the wide - open realm of abstraction.

These build through the storyline until the final culmination of events that brings that dramatic conflict or issue to a tipping point.

Your samples should demonstrate an understanding of dramatic conflict and skill with dialogue.