Sentences with phrase «emotional arc of the story»

Autistic children blinked right through those moments, suggesting they were not following the emotional arc of the story, but they responded sharply when an object suddenly moved.

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Although trimming a source material's story for time constraints is an understandable and widely accepted practice in filmmaking, cutting the already trim depths of emotional arcs of Ana and Christian that were presented in the final novel for its movie made the overall adaptation untitallating and unfulfilling.

If viewers don't feel connected to a character because of a lack of development, it's difficult to have a response to emotional beats in their story arc.

Like Jolie, the writers also do a good job of compartmentalizing each piece of the story so that it feels like a fresh chapter with renewed interest, while also keeping the focus on the emotional / spiritual arc of Louis as a consistent throughline, so that the movie's climax (which is much more metaphoric and spiritual than literal) has significant impact and satisfies in an iconic and moving way that is hard for any film to pull off.

Its uplifting story arc may be formulaic but the strength and honesty of the performances give it surprising emotional heft — especially from Damon as a troubled math genius in the role that marked his arrival as a major, serious actor.

There isn't much of an emotional arc to the story — we don't care enough about any of these people, ever after learning so much about them, to care who wins.

It's just not the same build - up, the situations aren't as dire, and whatever emotional content we might bestow upon the story arcs of Thorin and Bilbo feel like chicken - feed compared to those who've been injected into the piece to supposedly give some resonance.

The story doesn't make much sense, and doesn't really create any kind of dramatic arc or emotional punch.

Rockwell — in his best performance to date — has the biggest emotional arc, changing his ways in the course of a story that appeared at its peak the minute it started.

Because there's so little time with them together as a couple, I needed to have some bedrock that's incredibly strong and could support the love story side of the movie, and support Rooney's emotional arc, and also that would in a way define for the audience the way in which the movie was going to function.

«Look, we have to tell the story and the story has to be built around the emotional arcs of characters,» he told the audience at Wizard World Cleveland.

Because of that structure, critique groups are often better with writing craft issues on a smaller scale (clarifying sentences or paragraphs, scene goals, immediate motivations, dialogue passages, etc.) than on a story - sized scale (character development, plot flow, story goals and motivations, themes, emotional arcs, etc.).

Successful writers I know — whether they're published commercially or self - published — need to write and rewrite their books many times, usually with the support of a developmental editor, not someone who does spelling and punctuation but a creative partner who is able to identify and solve problems with the story, structure, characterization, dialogue, visual description, literary style, pacing, the narrative arc — with a first, second, and third act that engages the reader and reaches some kind of epiphany or denouement that entertains, illuminates and provides emotional satisfaction for the reader.

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