Sentences with phrase «image of a soap opera»

Not exact matches

For stagnant landscape shots, 48 frames per second works wonders, delivering strikingly crisp images, but the moment Jackson either moves the camera or cues a battle sequence, the footage takes on a video - like quality, almost along the lines of a soap opera, and it looks downright awful.

One can't help but imagine what a different filmmaker might have made of this lurid, plot - hole - riddled soap opera with a body count (including a perfect over-the-top image of bourgeois degeneracy: murder by wine corkscrew) or the character of Rachel, a bad drunk whose list of past humiliations includes an incident in which she stumbled into the Watsons» house in an apparent attempt to kidnap their infant daughter.

Like any coming - of - age teen soap opera, much of the film's appeal is in its vaunting of style over substance — coining whole ways of speaking, dressing and posturing for an impressionable generation brought up on Hollywood tropes — but Heathers embraces its style as an essential keystone to filmmaking, recognizing that even the most bloated melodrama can be sold through a well - manicured image.

Jockum Nordström draws, cuts and affixes childlike images of society as it often appears to us in historical soap operas about masters and servants.

Linzy's performances, and the visual language he draws upon in his still - and moving - image work, borrow from cultural artifacts that are rooted in the tropes of daytime soap operas, reality television, Hollywood drama and situational comedies.

Often, her videos would reconstruct television imagery using archetypal formats as quizzes, soap operas, and sports programmes and techniques such as the repetition of images and interruption of flow with text and music.

The wonderful images on the skate decks are described as soiled detritus, beautifully aged objects that include a bullet, a ketchup bottle, baby lotion bottle, a jar of Mayo and various toys that reflect McCarthy's interest in typically American themes such as Disneyland, B - Movies, comics and soap operas.

Meanwhile, critic and artist Walter Robinson paints a scenario straight out of a pulp fiction novel or TV soap opera with his new painting Randall and The River of Time and Aura Rosenberg takes us to the river's edge with her floor installation Dialectical Porn Rocks, a collection of creek rocks covered with erotic images from old porn magazines.