Sentences with phrase «for fictional stories»

I was just reflecting back on past few months to understand where my inspiration for fictional stories are coming from.

For fictional stories, you'll need voice actors to bring the characters to life.

For fictional stories, ask them why they think the characters made certain decisions.

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If her children are off limits for the media or public to comment on, why was she using her government e «mail to write a fictional story about her child?

Read it if you're looking for a strange collection of fictional stories that don't make sense, contradict each other, and promote slavery.

Whether I was writing for school, a fictional story for my personal entertainment, processing through my teenage years on my Xanga / Myspace blog, or even in college in my English classes, I found myself feeling an overwhelming sense of urgency to spew every single occurrence, happening, decision, prayer and thought onto paper or onto a digital document.

Unlike Superman whose creation can actually be traced back to a couple of young Jewish men in 1938 for the purpose of providing a sellable fictional story line to Detective Comics, there is no such evidence in regards to religious belief; especially since in this case being that this is about a God who does not want to be made known but who would rather have us develop our faith.

Early Christians were not martyred for metaphors and fictional stories.

Ambersons tells the story of George Amberson Minafer, a spoiled young man coming of age at a time of upheaval in his fictional Midwest hometown (modeled on Tarkington's Indianapolis), and headed for a «comeuppance» as the world changes and his Gilded Age lifestyle collapses.

For my own children, in this video - gaming age, what those fictional children get away with is simply unimaginable, except as the stories themselves seed the imagination, and the lives of the characters work their way into the life of the real child, enlarging that child's world.

Ditto for Abraham and all the fictional stories surrounding him.

But, putting my bullhorn aside, I'd like to make a case for the imagined stories, the ones that can throttle our hearts and challenge our biases, and for the fictional characters who, if we get close enough, can become real.

Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?

Her ground - breaking, award - winning «Kids Making Healthy Choices» Smartphone APP for children, parents / caregivers and educators (iTunes) is based on her award - winning, illustrated fictional children's book, «Making Healthy Choices — A Story to Inspire Fit, Weight-Wise Kids» (Amazon).

The press flocked to the story and as bettors rushed to put their money down on an entirely fictional and ultimately absurd question Reizner gained national attention for the Hole - in - the - Wall sportsbook.

Guest Writer - Merilee Kern Children's health advocate, health industry veteran and two - time fitness champion, Merilee Kern, is the creator of the ground - breaking «Kids Making Healthy Choices» APP for children, parents / caregivers and educators (available on iTunes), which is based on her award - winning, illustrated fictional children's book, «Making Healthy Choices — A Story to Inspire Fit, Weight-Wise Kids.»

Fictional story books can provide the starting ground for all sorts of conversations.

Dave has actually been in circulation for — according to my fictional story here, but it is very real, there is actually a Dave out there somewhere; you know, Dave, we're going to find you, but we know from the statistics that this is true.

Also, if you want to better understand, why intermittent fasting works for women, read this fictional story.

German / Austrian director Michael Haneke has become notorious for making films that are, essentially, extended meditations on discomfort, in which the lives of his fictional characters are marred by unspeakable violence and the minds of the audience are jarred by self - reflexive story twists.

The fictional filmmaker earned praise from the critics, too: Roger Ebert said that «Smithee, a name I'm not familiar with, allows his story to unfold naturally,» while the New York Times added that Smithee «has an adroit facility for scanning faces and extracting sharp background detail.»

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

Only a few weeks ago, unhealthy Risen depicted a fictional story about a Centurion who was searching for the body of...

Based on the 2002 novel by Alice Sebold, it's the fictional story of a 14 - year - old girl who is raped and murdered in 1973, and watches from heaven as her parents and family deal with their grief and search for justice.

Look for the trials of a Mongolian colt and his human caregivers in The Story of the Weeping Camel, the survival of stray birds in San Francisco in The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, the ties that bind a fictional African family in The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 and the sibling relationship captured in the Japanese anime film My Neighbor Totoro.

Next is «It's Bugsy» (4 mins., HD), another one of those infuriating docs wherein the cast and crew fawn over some animal / fictional character (in this case, the bug - eyed gerbil that accounts for a good 40 % of Bedtime Stories» attempts at humour) as a big star who was great to work with.

Inventing characters is a lot of fun but I don't think I'm capable of creating a fictional character that could possibly be as dimensional, idiosyncratic or fully realized as the actual people I read about in the newspaper every day — which is another way of saying that when you're telling a true story, life itself has done most of the work for you.

While I do think, from a story standpoint, it's a shame that Garrigan wasn't limited to being a mere witness to the events of the Amin era, as he was portrayed more in the book, instead of a constant catalyst for Amin's rage, considering he is a fictional character, we'll just chalk up his constant missteps as dramatic license taken by the screenwriters in drawing out Amin to commit some of the most heinous acts of torture shown in film this side of a Mel Gibson directorial effort.

Covering the sports beat at the fictional Denver Times, his writing is wearying his editor, Metz (Alan Alda), who waits patiently for the young man to land a great story.

It recounts a fictional meeting of Herman Melville (played by Ben Whishaw), an aspiring writer with a fascination for fish stories born out of his own ocean experiences, interviewing the last living survivor (Brendan Gleeson) of the Essex, hoping to reveal the real events of the ship's fateful voyage.

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

The story of a fictional metal / cock rock band told through talking head interviews that chronicle their iconic ups and downs, Spinal Tap is our best, early glimpse at the team who'd go on to make Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind and Best in Show.

It's kinda funny — for a film based on actual events, plot twists and turns unfold as if part of a complex fictional story of political intrigue.

For the first thirty seconds or so of «Director's Viewfinder: Creating a Fictional Family,» Levy relates the same story he did on the start of his commentary track.

They are very much related and feed into each other as the film addresses the differences between past and present and the fine line between reality and fantasy with one fictional story even serving as a metaphor for another.

BH Tilt has just unveiled a brand new trailer for Birth of the Dragon, a fictional feature based on the true story of the legendary Bruce Lee.

The story opens with Captain America, played by Chris Evans (for the fifth time), leading a counter-terrorist mission in a fictional African country.

The bulk of the story takes place in the fictional town of Hawthorne, Nebraska, where Dave and Woody stop on the way to Lincoln to reunite with Woody's living relatives and old acquaintances — all of whom take his fantasy of good fortune for fact.

The story has its share of little twists, but it's ultimately a story about T'Challa, ruler of the fictional nation of Wakanda, a technological marvel that has stayed hidden from the world for centuries.

Rather, the bulk of the film is comprised of fictional stories that take place among many hotel guests and employees of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where Bobby Kennedy was to make his acceptance speech for winning the 1968 Democratic primary.

Including the filmmaker, whose previous fictional treks behind the camera — the Alzheimer's love story Away from Her, for instance — have hardly been conventional.

Only a few weeks ago, unhealthy Risen depicted a fictional story about a Centurion who was searching for the body of Christ after it mysteriously...

Julianne Moore and Ellen Page are unconvincing in this hammy fictional version of a true story about a lesbian couple fighting for their pension rights

The story of the fight for women's right to vote is definitely a cinematically rich one but Sarah Gavron's film focuses on the fictional character of Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) instead of the real women on the dangerous frontline of the fight.

As Susan reads the fictional story over the course of a lonely weekend, she reminisces about her relationship with Tony and the unforgiveable betrayal that led to their divorce, haunted by the novel's thematic undercurrents of resentment and rage that play out like retribution for her own sins.

For every Adrián Beltré success story (he was signed to the Dodgers at age 15 and transitioned well), there are a dozen Dominican players like the fictional composite Miguel «Sugar» Santos — a talented pitcher hacking it out in the U.S. minor leagues.

«Detroit» director Kathryn Bigelow and «The Florida Project» director Sean Baker explain how they were drawn to the space that blends fictional narratives with stories rooted in facts for their films.

Sword Art Online: Lost Song is planned for a 2015 release on PS3 and PS Vita, and will feature a brand new story set in the fictional virtual world.

Here is the official press synopsis: «A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

Infinity War also, some way in, turns out to be not entirely an Avengers story, but also an outing for another superhero team, whose world is governed by rather different conventions of fictional reality and comic register: the rather spoofier sci - fi collective Guardians of the Galaxy, whose third movie this effectively also is.