Sentences with phrase «into old tropes»

When designing a kids room, it is easy to slip into the old tropes of blue, pink, and yellow.

UnReal is simultaneously a very dark satire of reality TV and a soap opera that breathes new life into old tropes by placing them in this very familiar, modern setting.

Not exact matches

The story is female - centric, ripped from the headlines, and pits a fiercely loving mother and her vulnerable child against a predatory older man, all tropes of the type of TV movie that makes middle - aged moms cry into their chardonnay.

Sheridan again displays flair in his writing, breathing life into old crime movie tropes with three - dimensional characters

The film starts off gloriously enough with a brilliantly filmed action piece set in Mexico City's Day of the Dead parade, but Mendes and crew soon settle into a muddled, anti-climactic mishmash of old tropes and familiar ideas.

Find reason there for the caricatured white trash pastiches serving as Maggie's family (and additional pathos in Maggie's need for a father figure), the boxing - trainer archetype, the old fighter Scrap (blind in one eye and living in a tiny room at the gym), the evil Drago Eastern Bloc nemesis, and the rags - to - riches sports story into noble - cripple tropes that worked in 1962 with Requiem for a Heavyweight.

Directed by James Whale in between Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, The Old Dark House (1932) injects a touch of camp and a jigger of sexual frankness into the gothic tropes of a creepy manor in a thunderstorm.

This gets a place on the list by being much, much better than I thought it was going to be, and for successfully pulling off an American version of the old kids» book trope, kids - go - into - countryside - and - discover - magic.

Mica Levi's aforementioned score is a stunner, repurposing old sci - fi musical tropes — booming bass, dissonant strings — into something modern but timeless.

As Horacia puts two and two together at a key point late in the film, Diaz gives his own spin on a hokey, century - old visual trope by placing the entire scene out of focus; his heroine only comes into sharp definition as she walks away, toward the camera.