Sentences with phrase «flashback story structure»

Besides using an ill - advised flashback story structure that gives away the movie's ending, some of his editing and film techniques just kill the action dead in its tracks.

This post-Casablanca re-teaming of Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and director Curtiz, has Bogie as a French patriot, Michele Morgan («Port of Shadows») as his love, and a complex flashbacks - within - flashbacks story structure that carries him to Devil's Island and back.

Not exact matches

Avowals of literary ambitions and familial devotion, stories of death and faith, and a bold dramatic structure — based on flashbacks and leaps forward in time — set the vagaries of work and love on the firm footing of destiny.

Told mostly in flashback over a period of four frenetic days, «Michael Clayton» has an unnecessarily complicated structure and a surfeit of back stories.

Charting the fortunes and (mostly) misfortunes of Paul Giamatti's eponymous anti-hero, principally his three failed marriages, Lewis and novice screenwriter Michael Konyves have fashioned a busy, baggy flashback structure that races through some key plot points as it leaves others dangling, and never makes good on its literary opening gambit to tell the story as Barney's autobiography.

One of the significant devices used in the structure of the film is the flashback to the story of how Tom and Violet first meet.

It's a great looking movie with and the story has an interesting, if not as original as Roger Ebert seemed to think it was, structure, with Fiennes's story told in flashback to Binoche until it reaches the beginning point of the film.

The story, as structured by Hawke, plays like a series of extended flashbacks within flashbacks, and that's a very smart strategy, because it keeps the rambling scenes poised and alive.

The constant flashbacks, folding the narrative unto itself, and Cregar's imposing, Wellesian presence (not to mention that Vincent Price voice) are the real story here, delivering a structure that's never less than engrossing, plus a heavy who's genuinely menacing every time he appears on screen.

Better construction may have started with the family together and then giving little flashbacks into their days, or maybe had it been structured like a Christmas anthology film we could give our full attention to each story in its entirety.