Sentences with phrase «fictionalized take»

Featuring the perfect combination of strategic and real - time gameplay, it's easy to get lost for hours in Sega's fictionalized take on World War II.

One of the best movies of 2011 hardly anyone's seen, «Margin Call» is a fictionalized take on the collapse of a Lehman Brothers - type company at the precipice of the Great Recession.

Hangmen Also Die (Cohen, Blu - ray, DVD) is Fritz Lang's fictionalized take on a real - life historical event: the only successful assassination of a major Nazi commander by the underground resistance in occupied Europe.

Life is too short not to take every opportunity, in one's vocational and romantic callings, and thusly Miyazaki frames his heavily fictionalized take on Horikoshi.

Her character, modeled after James Carville, is a fictionalized take on a 2005 documentary that deta...

Those days come to life in Lords of Dogtown, a fictionalized take on the acclaimed 2001 documentary Dogtown and Z - Boys.

Not exact matches

Sakura Wars 4: Fall in Love, Maidens is set in Tokyo during a fictionalized version of the Taishō period, with players taking the role of Ichiro Ogami and

As those scenes progressed, the dialogue and situations between them felt far more fictionalized than his work with the CIA, NSA, or the scenes taking place in Hong Kong.

It's a fictionalized account (taken from the book «The Sewers of Lvov») of Polish Jews who lived through the Nazi occupation by hiding in the sewers beneath a ransacked Jewish ghetto, making for a drama that is every bit as grim as it sounds.

This evocative and quietly powerful glimpse into masculinity and Western heritage takes a docudrama approach to the story of Brady Jandreau, a young South Dakota rodeo cowboy playing a lightly fictionalized version of himself.

A linear and compellingly «fictionalized» account of how G - Man Elliot Ness took down gangland kingpin Al Capone.

It's definitely a more sci - fi tinged account than the fictionalized version, with clandestine visits from the «Men in Black» and mysterious, conveniently - timed deaths, though the piece is undone by two - cent re-enactments that are impossible to take seriously.

In this fictionalized version the part of Sánchez is taken by Joaquim de Almeida as Castillo, a man who had been president fifteen years back but is now trailing well behind Victor Rivera (Louis Arcella).

Red Dead Redemption 2 essentially takes place a century before the GTA timeline, but in the same fictionalized version of the USA.

«Frost / Nixon» plays a little with the timeline of the interviews and includes some fully fictionalized moments, including a pivotal late - night phone conversation between Nixon and Frost that never took place.

Inspired by Krystyna Chiger's memoir «The Girl in the Green Sweater» with references to Martin Gilbert's «The Righteous» and Robert Marshall's «In the Sewers of Lvov,» Canadian screenwriter David F. Shamoon takes dramatic license to fictionalize Socha's inner turmoil.

Meanwhile, director Roland Emmerich («Independence Day») takes a break from blockbusters for «Stonewall,» a passion project that is a fictionalized account of the riots between LBGT bar - patron protestors and police that gave birth to the gay - rights movement in 1969.

by Walter Chaw David Yates's The Legend of Tarzan is at once a long - overdue, if massively - fictionalized, biopic of George Washington Williams's time in the Congo observing colonial Belgium's abuses of the rubber, ivory, and diamond trades; and it's an adaptation, nay, updating of Edgar Rice Burroughs's first five Tarzan books, with heavy creative license taken but the spirit kept largely intact.

Mozambican novelist Mia Couto has taken this story as the basis for a fictionalized trilogy about «the last days of the so - called State of Gaza.»

Lester takes readers to Savannah, Georgia, in 1859 in a fictionalized account of the largest slave auction in American history, told in alternating voices of slaves, slave owners, and abolitionists.

It does not matter whether you are going to retell a story either real one taken from your own experience or fictionalized story; still you have to remember that the main aim of writing your informal essays is to please the reader and make him or her read your essay with great pleasure and admiration.

In Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, players discover a fictionalized future Bolivia, a few years from now, in which players must take down the Santa Blanca drug cartel by any means necessary.

2013's highest - scoring title — which was probably the favorite to take game of the year honors heading into the year, and didn't disappoint (at least score-wise)-- was Rockstar's latest GTA installment, Grand Theft Auto V. Set in a fictionalized Los Angeles, the game scored 97 on both PS3 and Xbox 360, making it the highest - scoring release since 2010.

Final Fight takes place in a barely fictionalized New York City that's awash in graffiti, garbage, gangs, and an unfathomable supply of metal barrels.

Set in a fictionalized Las Vegas (and its desert - and - mountains surroundings), you play as a team of roadway criminals determined set out to take down «The House» (a slightly more organized collection of criminals that run the city's casinos).

Being Modern Warfare, it's entirely fictionalized — and yet, every tragic event that takes place feels like it's just a minor extrapolation of reality.

Taking place in a fictionalized version of Tokyo, Persona 5 follows the protagonist and his friends as they discover their Persona powers over the course of one year.

Nioh takes you to a fictionalized version of the Sengoku period when Japan was in the middle of a civil war.

It's a military shooter that throws you and three AI or player teammates into a fictionalized version of Bolivia, where you're tasked with taking down the Santa Blanca Cartel (current members: 60.000.000 thugs and drug lords).

Watch Dogs 2 is set within a fictionalized version of San Francisco where Marcus Holloway, a hacker who works with the hacking group DedSec has to take down the city's ctOS 2.0, an advanced surveillance system.

The game follows protagonist William Adams, a Western samurai taking on supernatural threats in a fictionalized 1600s Sengoku period.

As with its predecessor, it was also later ported to the PlayStation under the name of Ace Combat 22 - and although the arcade version (as with its predecessor) takes place on Earth, the PlayStation version of the title apparently takes place on a fictionalized version of Earth.

NiOh takes places within the early 1600's during a fictionalized version of the Sengoku period, which was when Japan was in the midst of a civil war.

Invitation and collaboration are also at the heart of Gander's fugitive art — whether he's exchanging fictionalized newspaper obituaries with an artist - friend or taking pictures of people looking at pictures at an art fair — although arguably every solipsistic action he takes merely holds up yet another mirror to his ceaselessly voracious mind.

Performances and fictionalized, self - referential mythologies played a large role in their work — the group staged beauty pageants, boutiques, television talk shows, trade fair pavilions, and more, and their work often took on unconventional forms of media such as prints, magazines, posters, crests, and postcards.

In these, the artist has painted over snapshots taken in his garden in Los Angeles and then greatly enlarged the results, to create paintings that fictionalize both the original landscapes and the brushstrokes into commanding yet approachable artifice.

Red Dead Redemption 2 essentially takes place a century before the GTA timeline, but in the same fictionalized version of the USA.

To get an idea, take a look at a fictionalized biography I created for an actual client — a CEO, Global Operations.