Sentences with phrase «dramatic irony»

Few films are simultaneously hilarious and harrowing, and even fewer rely on dramatic irony for both effects.

The original film turned suspense levels to 11 by playing with dramatic irony, showing the audience the location of the three strangers far more often than the characters are aware of it.

From his very first film, the director has written and edited his films with some pieces out of order, creating dramatic irony, shock value, heightened drama and more.

But part of what makes the game great is the persistent dramatic irony.

Opening with archive newsreel footage of Long Beach as a place of fun and hope before juxtaposing the burnt - out crack - house dead wonderland of the Long Beach of just a couple of years ago (a conceit carried out with far more grace in Stacy Peralta's Dogtown and Z - Boys), the picture quickly reveals itself to be infatuated with a certain kind of dramatic irony in which the stock characters are unaware that they are clumsy allegorical pawns in a metaphorical landscape.

The pain and hilarity arrive in earnest during the last half hour, as Sparling first engineers one of the cheapest bits of dramatic irony in cinema history, then follows it up with a sublimely idiotic twist that combines the dopiest instincts of M. Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks.

When preparing to teach 7th graders about dramatic irony and iambic pentameter, a teacher will naturally wonder, will this be too hard for them?

After early scenes establish his character as neurotically health - and safety - conscious, dramatic irony comes a-callin» when Gordon - Levitt starts experiencing acute back pain and his doctor says he has a rare, aggressive form of cancer.

-LSB-...] Here we come to a central dramatic irony in the manager's story.

From here, the story cunningly uses the device of dramatic irony wherein the audience is aware of things a character (or characters) is not.

These resources provide opportunities to: - Compare interpretations of act 1 scene 5 - Analyse language, form and structure of two interpretations - Analyse dramatic irony - Practice structuring exam responses - Explore context - Explore how different audience may interpret the scene

Sahota effectively employs dramatic irony, where the reader is privy to both the whole canvas and smaller details of the characters» lives, which are eloquently painted, and can therefore see train wrecks coming before they actually do.

You won't be able to use dramatic irony without busting out of the POV but you can add mystery and disquiet.

Through some expert dramatic irony, the audience is left to witness how the two unwittingly insult each other — Celica by questioning Alm's capability to lead based on his birthright (the same question hurled at him by the pompous, antagonistic aristocracy), and Alm by retorting that the royalty of Zofia is dead, gone, and unable to lead the nation (unaware that he is speaking to a lost princess).

Case in point: the previous season ended with Barney's surprise romantic Playbook play to win Robin's hand in marriage, resolving months» worth of dramatic irony about what he was doing with her coworker, and serving up the narrative fulfillment we'd all been waiting for.

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It feels almost cruel the way the film plays with dramatic irony in the editing room in a way only a spontaneously unfolding documentary can; Hart will talk about how he views Vince as a father figure and how he trusts him implicitly — the filmmakers have no reason to doubt this when it was shot, but including it at the end is one of the many great instances of bitter foreshadowing they manage to employ.

Screenwriter and first - time director Menno Meyjes» Max is an intelligent and utterly compelling hypothetical question in which scholarly musings and dramatic irony come together to create a powerful, thought - provoking experience.

The auteur specializes in building up characters to break them down, and no one in his 1997 exploration of the pornography business is exempt from his deconstructive impulses: Few directos balance the hilarious and harrowing so seamlessly, and even fewer rely on dramatic irony to achieve both.

For the careful reader, foreshadowing creates a particularly effective form of engagement, ultimately moving into the territory of dramatic irony, where the reader knows more than the characters in the story.

It is a masterpiece of dramatic irony; for while ostensibly Jesus is on His trial before council, king and governor, we are clearly aware that the real prisoners in the dock are Caiaphas, Herod and Pilate, the priests and the blind mob, as well as the traitor Judas and the disloyal disciples who denied and deserted their Master.

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So, going back to point one, Dramatic Irony, he be feeling exactly as.

After listening to Harold's complaint that he feels like a character in his own life, Hilbert notes sagely, «Dramatic irony: it'll fuck you every time.»

From its first draw of blood onward, it bolts down a foreseeable slasher - movie trajectory, laying on thick the dramatic irony while constantly inventing new reasons to punish its characters for old iniquities.

Red Sparrow does little with these generic tropes: The training sequences largely consist of speeches by Matron and some cold nudity that is (intentionally) non-erotic; when spies meet they immediately know what the other is so there is no dramatic irony.

Dramatic irony is achieved when Dr. Knock ultimately becomes a victim of his own success.

Dramatic irony, showing the audience the killer before the character sees him, is a technique many older horror films used to create fear and suspense.

Moss - covered street signs, decaying skyscrapers, «metal vessels» with «strange insignia» you recognize as drinking mugs, etc.: they all heighten the dramatic irony, so you feel like you're constantly marching yourself into a deadly world you already, in some way, understand.

Sure, it works as a form of dramatic irony, he confiding in the audience and not the people around him, but there's a subtle wish underlining those sequences: If only the politicians we know to be corrupt and fallen could be so forthright with their motivations.

With Buchanan's heists in plain sight, the movie doesn't hold its dramatic irony for long.

One has to give a lot of credit to the Hong Kong film in which The Departed is based, Infernal Affairs, whose brilliant and easily digestible premise — where a cop poses as a criminal and a criminal has infiltrated the police department — creates such a wonderful instance of dramatic irony.

It's that dramatic irony — build up a champ only to consider tearing it down — which hits you like a punch to the gut when the movie hits the third act and makes it unlike any sports film in history.

The primary gag is one of dramatic irony.

Like with anything that is popular, the movie's plot has led to countless fan theories; ranging from aspects like the story was all in the head of Rod the TSA agent, that Get Out is a sequel to Being John Malkovich, the important symbolism of the deer, the dramatic irony of Chris picking cotton to lead to his escape, and much more.

All of the dramatic irony is gone.

At first, we think it's dramatic irony, as we know how this story concludes.

When used properly, dramatic irony, the circumstance under which the audience is aware of information that the characters are not, can be a powerful narrative tool.

That the film has chosen a person of such cheesy notoriety as its heroine may sound like the height of dramatic irony.

They also see what Deadpool is too self - absorbed to see for himself, which makes a shockingly perfect example of dramatic irony.

It's a fascinating puzzle writer / director Michael Haneke has laid out, but what's more intriguing is the way he uses that setup and the dramatic irony it holds to continually subvert our expectations.

A former Harvard Lampoon cartoonist and punk rock performer, Burwell made an auspicious movie debut along with the Coen Brothers for 1984's «Blood Simple,» a score that immediately showed the composer's talent for capturing clever, dramatic irony.

A single lesson to introduce the concept of irony to KS4 readers — includes Situational, Verbal and Dramatic irony.