Sentences with phrase «elaborate framing devices»

In the game on which the manga is based, the enemy the player must engage most frequently is the environment itself, and the artist's translation of this element into menacing backgrounds and elaborate framing devices is beautiful to behold.

For the new film, Osborne («Kung Fu Panda») and screenwriters Irena Brignull («The Boxtrolls») and Bob Persichetti have taken the generally more effective tack of nesting Saint - Exupery's story within an elaborate framing device set in the kind of modular modern metropolis prophesied by Jacques Tati's «Playtime,» full of technology and free of wonder.