Sentences with phrase «folktale into»

Some efforts have been done to translate Balinese folktale into English, but these efforts quite off the track to preserve and increase the knowledge of Balinese of their own traditional folktales.

Meanwhile, Ghibli's latest animated release turns an old folktale into something truly epic.

Reader's Theater: Presenting Asian Folktales Transform Asian folktales into Reader's Theater scripts.

Not exact matches

It made its way into homes and towns through folktales and cultural rituals.

To make one of the most inventive and unnerving horror films in recent memory, writer - director Robert Eggers conducted extensive research into folktales from the witch - hunt era of 17th century New England.

As it draws to a close and the forest's sinister forces begin to reveal themselves, our characters descend deeper into hysteria, and the true breadth of the story and these actors» talents bubble to the surface for a superb, ensemble - driven folktale that chills to the bone.

An impressive shot establishing Pumpkinhead as he strides into the skeleton of an old, broken - down church in blue half - light suggests more than the triumph of practical effects on a low budget and tight shooting schedule: it suggests that the film's simplicity could — should — be read as pagan folktale, complete with cautionary spiel, brutal exposition, and a surprisingly strong moral grounding.

Songs are carefully selected to have appropriate levels of syllabication, vocabulary, imagery and subject matter that lead into history, myths or folktales.

One line from «Let It Rock» — «working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer» — led right into a mini-lesson on folktales and heroes like John Henry, and we compared working and living conditions from the past with today, which is California State Social Studies Standards 2.1

«Several Norwegian folktales are seamlessly integrated into the fast - paced, lyrically narrated story, which features a protagonist as stalwart and fearless as any fairy - tale hero.»

Red Rabbit is likely a reference to Br «er Rabbit, the wily trickster from the Uncle Remus folktales, or Eshu, the sly god of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, here transformed into a fierce and furious creature, perhaps the artist himself.

Simon Starling's film Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima) critiques Moore's advocacy of nuclear energy by inserting him into a Japanese folktale about deceit and betrayal.

Translated into English, the title means «The Peacock Feather» and is named for an Italian folktale that reminds us of the artist's ancestry in Sicily.