Sentences with phrase «framed device»

Balls» Budget response showed an improved ability on the Labour benches to deploy damaging framing devices against the coalition, with the shadow chancellor branding yesterday's housing policy a «spare home subsidy».

The opening sequences of The Hobbit frame the backstory to the dwarven quest into which young hobbit, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is drafted — the fall of the dwarven city of Erabor to the dragon Smaug — and framing device of the new trilogy: the older Bilbo (Ian Holm) deciding to write the memoir of his big adventure.

The ironic distance derived from the film's framing device and fourth wall — breaking helps emphasizes the drab ordinariness and the utter acceptability of such cruelty.

This framing device can't quite be called foreshadowing: the details Lena lays out are too solid to be shadows.

Discounting the hokey framing device of host Robert Mitchum wandering through an attic full of Huston memorabilia, this two - hour plus film is a remarkable chronicle of a remarkable man.

He gets off on the wrong foot from the get - go by opting for a faux - documentary framing device that has his characters» present - day incarnations speaking directly to the camera.

(The framing device is a mistake.)

Yet Werwie also opened up about the framing device of the film, which he believes allows Kloepfer's perspective and beliefs to actually rule the story.

That could have been easily remedied if Verbinski had just removed the pointless framing device that features an elderly Tonto recounting the story to a young boy at the San Francisco fair.

Consider the Greek tragedy framing device of Mighty Aphrodite, the trip to Hell in Deconstructing Harry or the musical sequences of Everyone Says I Love You (which features a brave Julia Roberts churning out a song in a voice only a mother could appreciate).

First, they'll just be a couple of cameos used as a framing device, so that Professor X and Magneto are looking back at the events of the new movie.

Then, in an obvious gimmick, he couches his weak story inside the framing device of a faux - documentary.

Though Nickerson is the one recounting the tale of the Essex's demise, the movie includes moments from Chase and Pollard's perspectives that Nickerson's 14 - year - old self (played by Tom Holland) simply wouldn't be privy to, which makes the whole framing device pointless.

From this framing device, we jump back to Colby, Texas circa 1869, where the railroad has finally come, with, according to tycoon Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson), the promise of progress.

In an unnecessary and unenlightening framing device, Berge speaks directly to the late Saint Laurent as the couple's extensive art collection is being boxed up for auction.

In the aforementioned framing device, Ben Whishaw, playing a far too soft and obsequious Melville, shows up at the inn of pickled, traumatized Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson, typecast) one dark and stormy night seeking raw material from the former Essex cabin boy for his upcoming novel about whalers.

Ironically, the flat effigies of Mickey and co. that decorate the pop - up books in a framing device have more charm than the moving 3 - D counterparts do.

Taking over for Davis Guggenheim, the directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk largely abandon the framing device of Gore's lecture (which he and his international team of trainees continue to give regularly) in favor of a nimbler, more on - the - go approach.

«Maybe he is the most demanding man,» Alma says to an interlocutor, during a fireside chat that acts as a quasi — framing device.

Scheherazade, as in the folk tales, is both character and framing device, doomed to tell stories for a thousand and one nights in order to postpone her execution at the hands of her husband the king.

Despite a tacked - on framing device that mostly falls flat, Kevin Hart: What Now?

He keeps returning to the present - day, less - than - inspired framing device in which an old woman, dying in a New Orleans hospital as Hurricane Katrina approaches, listens to her daughter (Julia Ormond) read Benjamin's journals.

It seemed like a distraction, but as the movie progressed I understood that this framing device was its own sub-story and had its own complexity, namely the older Tom coming clean to the decisions that still haunt his soul.

When the framing device scores the biggest emotional pull, you better start rethinking your rip - roaring high - seas adventure.

For some reason, the V / H / S series persists in using a framing device that is, on its own, one of its shorts.

A question concerning the framing device: how is older Tom retelling events he had no participation or witness to?

As these two men are allowing themselves to become more vulnerable and sharing their demons and doubts and worst fears, I started to realize that this framing device was weirdly more compelling than all the whale action.

From the use of the framing device, insertions of historical footage and animated interludes, to the staging and blocking of the murder scenes, everything serves a purpose that helps build a narrative that's at once lucid and unspeakably nightmarish.

Instead, Miles Ahead uses a framing device that presents its story as if it's a piece of music that Miles is playing for Rolling Stone reporter Dave Brill (Ewan McGregor).

The music of Tupac is used as narration or some sort of thematic framing device.

In the movie's inspired framing device, music - hall phenomenon Dan Leno (Douglas Booth), Lizzie's mentor and best friend, stages his own re-creation of her trial with upsetting results.

The framing device serves largely to establish who the main actors are channeling, and the juxtaposition of the personalities with their new forms is where most of the film's humour is derived from.

Structure-wise, Leitch uses a debriefing between Lorraine and her senior Eric Gray (Toby Jones)-- together with extraneous Chief C (James Faulkner) and CIA representative Emmett Kurzfeld (John Goodman)-- as the framing device to tell the story in flashbacks.

Beginning with a pointless and irritating framing device, an old Tonto (Johnny Depp) tells a young boy dressed as the Lone Ranger about the real Lone Ranger, John Reid (Hammer).

It seems like Depp was never told «no» to any of his ideas, and the film has to indulge the actor's notion that audiences wouldn't be able to get enough of his character, so we're also forced to endure him in the useless framing device.

Framing device: tracing the genesis of storytelling techniques that took Hollywood into modernism (and beyond)

One thing I decidedly did not like was the framing device of Nick Carraway writing the story from a sanitarium, where he has gone to recuperate from the «morbid alcoholism» (I think those are the words we see on his diagnostic papers) brought on by the tragedy to which he was witness.

In fact, the script is kind of clunky — there's even a bit where Tarantino starts narrating his own screenplay, not as an essential framing device but because he apparently loves the sounds of his own voice.

-- matricide, using the conversation as a framing device to flash back to his youth and reveal the bond between Norma Bates (Olivia Hussey) and her son (played by Henry Thomas).

Some of the framing device is honestly a little bit flawed, considering that Judy could easily look over Rodentia, seeing even as a small rabbit she towers over the inhabitants of that particular area.

But Cay's heavy involvement, combined with a framing device that incorporates both Cays, turns Savannah into a dull vanity project for the Southern highborn.

Using the character's written confession (in a location far from his beloved farm) as a framing device robs the story of any real suspense and, worse, fails to enrich the events on screen with emotional or moral substance.

A trite framing device, in which the travails of these people are cross-cut with the progress of the Voyager satellite through space, seems to suggest that their interactions are emblematic of present day human society in general.

And so it felt like any framing device would take that away; we would lose that.

There's a case to be made that the success of a biopic depends almost entirely on the director having studied Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story like a road map of cliché pitfalls to be avoided: Don't lean so hard on formative childhood traumas, watch out for unnecessary framing devices, etc..

In key scenes (Sahmi's meeting with the General, the montage sequence showing Houshang's attempts to raise money using repetitive framing devices, and several of Parviz's key scenes, which often function like dramatic monologues) the performances appear often to be slightly stylized and theatrical, offering, I believe, a degree of distanciation (in the Brechtian sense), somewhat in the manner of, say, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

There is a framing device, which is an interview that Jackie conducts with a journalist (Billy Crudup), and which allows the audience a bit of insight into the personal life of one of the world's most famous people.

For the new film, Osborne («Kung Fu Panda») and screenwriters Irena Brignull («The Boxtrolls») and Bob Persichetti have taken the generally more effective tack of nesting Saint - Exupery's story within an elaborate framing device set in the kind of modular modern metropolis prophesied by Jacques Tati's «Playtime,» full of technology and free of wonder.

After seeing the packed narratives within narratives of part one, Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One seems, as Miguel Gomes himself suggested, a very different film, connected to the first by the framing device, theme and some of the performers (assuming different roles in the new installment) rather than through narrative continuation.

The idea of a Scientology - like «religion» is used only as a narrative framing device — the film itself poses much more thought - provoking questions.