Sentences with phrase «emotional core of the story»

The special effects, courtesy of Weta Digital, are beautiful and the emotional core of the story is never lost as a consequence of the big budget sequences, only heightened.

They wanted to embrace the emotional core of the story.»

Westley and Buttercup truly love each other, Inigo thirsts for revenge, the Six - Fingered Man (Christopher Guest) is sadistic and cruel, and the cast never belittles the emotional cores of the story.

While Moaz employs some technical tricks that smack of over-direction — dramatic overhead shots, swiveling cameras — the emotional core of his story sends shockwaves.

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Chip: We believe that the best ideas have most of these traits: They are simple, core messages; they are unexpected; they are concrete, credible, and emotional; and they are stories.

It is as stupid a story as anyone has ever told, but it will be the core emotional message of the Brexit press campaign, enthusiastically promoted by Downing Street.

(Think Emily Blunt and a cigarette lighter...) The movie also finds its emotional core in that dilapidated old farmhouse, and, rather gracefully for such a hard - charging, violent film, slowly becomes a story about the cyclical effects of neglect and regret.

The core of the story falls into this portion, giving it quite the emotional impact for it's viewers.

Rapper - turned - actor Ice Cube ably provides the emotional core in this story of a neighborhood barbershop and its assortment of colorful inhabitants, which is a cut above standard hip - hop cinematic fare.

The point is to expose the raw emotional core at the heart of all love stories and pop music Ewan McGregor plays a songwriter who falls hopelessly in love with Nicole Kidman's dancer / prostitute.

But, as he tells Backstage, «the more that I learned how family - centric the celebration is and just the core tenets of the holiday — about this obligation to remember loved ones that have passed on, remembering them every year in a joyous way, putting things out that they loved in life and passing their stories to a new generation — it just seemed full of potential to tell a unique but very deep and emotional, funny, colorful, musical story.»

The chemistry between these two actresses really worked and this story was the emotional core of the film.

«None of this story is literally true to my mom and I, but there is a core of emotional truth,» says Gerwig, who intentionally composed an opening scene showing Marion and Lady Bird side by side, with the same straight, shoulder - length haircut, having the same teary reaction to the end of The Grapes of Wrath audiobook, which they listened to on their mother - daughter driving tour of local colleges.

Where Avatar falls a little short is in the romance between Jake and Neytiri, which while compelling doesn't resonate as strongly as the emotional cores of many of his previous films, whether the traditional romantic love stories of a Titanic, The Abyss, or The Terminator (or even True Lies); or his dual epic sequel tributes to maternal love, Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are once again the centerpieces of Wright's film, who portray vastly different characters than before and provide the story with a strong emotional core than before.

50/50 is the story of a guy's transformative and, yes, sometimes funny journey to health — drawing its emotional core from Will Reiser's own experience with cancer and reminding us that friendship and love, no matter what bizarre turns they take, are the greatest healers.

The story's emotional core is hollow, and the movie's potential for any thoughtful development of the central concept is rendered nonexistent — both thanks to its reliance on action and plot over all else.

At the core of the film is a story about the physical and emotional abuse disgraced figure skating champion Tonya Harding endured throughout her life from her mother and her husband, but the film also explores the very traditional, staid world of competitive figure skating, while also offering a scathing indictment on the behaviour of the media.

Too many kooky supporting characters are given the spotlight for reasons unknown, and while they might be funny at times, the constant asides do detract from the dramatic momentum of the emotional story at its core.

The first half may move at a snail pace narratively, but it uses those hours of open world exploration to build an emotional connection between the player and the core cast of characters, a connection that helps make the game's big story moments all the more powerful when they arrive in its second half.

Four of the original MCAST scales were thought of as capturing secure base script knowledge in children's stories, as they fit well the description of the core elements of the secure base script (Psouni and Apetroaia 2014): Proximity (seeking contact and closeness by both child and caregiver when a difficulty arises), Sensitivity (caregiver's physical and emotional response to the child's distress, orientation to the child's behavior and state of mind), Assuagement (degree to which child's distress is moderated, both as a result of appropriate caregiver actions and because the child accepts the care and soothing — from the child's and from the coder's perspective) and Warmth (inferred caregiver emotional warmth in dealings with the child).