Sentences with phrase «establishes narrative momentum»
- Library Journal «Though inventive and well crafted, the novel neither fully endears its characters to the reader nor establishes narrative momentum, playing at themes and romantic entanglements that are expertly introduced but often under - explored and discarded.
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Rather than collecting a bunch of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down in its own plot that it forgets to be funny.
Zoolander actually grossed an impressive $ 60M domestically on a meagre $ 28M budget, but that doesn't fit the narrative this featurette aims to establish: that the picture's avalanching cult momentum made a belated sequel inevitable.