Sentences with phrase «narrating character»

Readers are as close to the narrating character (the author) as they can be.

Like Knausgaard, Modiano uses a steady stream of minor but precise quotidian detail, including place names and secondary characters, to create both the narrating character's interiority and an atmospheric sense of place.

In the non-reading hours I worked or drifted to sleep with Hillary Jordan's six narrating characters chattering on gently in my head.

Not exact matches

Stillman's conceit is to take Jane Austen's story, in its screenplay version, and imagine it narrated by a character of his own creation — a pretentious fool named Rufus Martin - Colonna, Lady Susan's nephew - by - marriage.

The poets of antiquity did not simply narrate events, whether historical or fictional using standard prose, but rather placed the characters of the stories in an active and real - time dialogue.

Video segments and chapters alike begin with a story from the Gospels in which a character meets Jesus, told — especially with Weber narrating — so that we identify with the character and meet Jesus in judgment and grace.

Palacio demonstrates this by using five characters — August, Jack, Summer, Via, and Justin — to narrate their own version of August Pullman's fifth grade year.

The basic idea — you write a script, choose the characters and setting, insert sounds, gestures, camera angles and other refinements, and the system narrates your dialogue and animates the characters in 3 - D.

The game opens with a narrated sequence setting the scene of the player character, Peter York,

Linda, of all characters to choose from, narrates the story.

Narrated by Paul Robeson, the film employs a cast of familiar if not stellar character actors in a story of how certain enemies within the US have done their best to suppress their fellow citizens» rights to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and freedom from want.

Directed by Rees and adapted, with Virgil Williams, from the 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound is a true ensemble piece; the film explores race and class in the South through the story of two fated families, narrated by several divergent characters.

The story is centered around Kronk this time, the Emperor is narrating from time to time and pretty much all the other characters are present and correct.

Rees and cowriter Virgil Williams co-opt the novel's device of having six characters — three from each family — narrate their stories.

Ricci narrates in a self knowing tone, explaining why we feel sorry for certain characters and not others.

Narrated by each character in shifting turns, «Mudbound» presents a fascinating exercise in perspective and narrative focus, weaving in and out of the two families» stories and the constantly changing dynamics of dominance and dependence, all of it set against a backdrop of poverty and the unforgiving forces of nature.

Knaggs» character, a mute seaman, narrates the film's key sections with an internal voice - over monologue that is more hissed than spoken, leading the audience down all manner of strange psychological paths around the script's action; Knaggs» seaman ultimately rescues the hero from near - certain death.

Bonus materials carried over from the previous Blu - ray Disc release, include a documentary narrated by Ed Harris on the issue of space junk that is crowding near - Earth space, and a short additional scene that shows the other side of a radio communication between Sandra Bullock's character and someone on Earth.

Throughout the movie not only was he acting but he was also narrating through the character's journals.

In the movie, the narrative is divided into four acts with each character narrating a quarter of the story.

The film has three central characters who take turns narrating portions of their collective story in flashbacks: After being arrested for murder, Lila (Patricia Arquette) begins by saying, «I'm not sorry.»

And in this video, he narrates a certain scene when Daniel Kaluuya «s character Chris has this feeling of paranoia as he gets a lot of awkward attention from the various guests of his girlfriend's parents» cookout.

Possession is torturous viewing scored and narrated by Gabriel Yared's soaring violins that for as invasive as they are admittedly provide the only insight into the feelings of the characters for one another.

Thomas Was Alone is an atmospheric title, narrated by British comedian and actor Danny Wallace, in which players swap between different geometric characters to make their way through levels.

The former is very dry: Moland fixates on character motivation, which finds him taking the pretentious but no less easy route to narrating the movie.

As Bloodline opens with the first episode, we flash forward knowing something bad is going to happen, as Kyle Chandler's lead character, John Rayburn, narrates, «We're not bad people.

Written and directed by Adam Nimoy, son of the late Leonard Nimoy, the film is narrated by Zachary Quinto (who plays the iconic character of Spock in the Star Trek reboot) and features contributions from William Shatner, George Takei, Walter Koenig, -LSB-...]

Although he is the first - billed actor in the cast, it is the character of Zero, played by Revolori as a teenager and F. Murray Abraham as an older man, who narrates most of the film and whose character technically has more screentime.

Willis» character is a P.I. named Steve Ford, who runs a small agency with a young partner named John, played by Thomas Middleditch, who narrates because somebody's always narrating in a private - eye movie, one assumes the thinking went.

The movie is narrated intermittently by Katara, though she need hardly have bothered: Nearly every character self - narrates with redundant promiscuity, announcing what he intends to do, then describing what he is in the midst of doing, and finally recounting what he has just done.

This is despite an opening bit, narrated by Ricky Jay no less, that would seem to indicate a fun and light - hearted romp, as the title characters (played by Mark Ruffalo and Adrian Brody) are established as cunning siblings with a penchant for engaging in almost ridiculously complex con games.

Narrated by Sarah Paulson's conjoined twin characters, FX horror anthology's new season promises an eclectic cast of characters who aren't welcome anywhere

The entire film is narrated by Kuzco (often in an interruptive but certainly not unwelcome manner), who acknowledges convention, underscores his character flaws, and makes for an amusing, cynical viewing companion.

(It's narrated by one character, but seen mostly from the other's point - of - view, for example.)

The most clumsy thing, and the most perplexing, is that Allen undercuts all suspense by having the film narrated by a character who is in danger.

Set in 1950, which doesn't stop one character from catching the 1933 movie «Flying Down to Rio» at the local bijou, Woody Allen's «Wonder Wheel» is narrated by a budding dramatist working as a Coney Island lifeguard.

The actors also jump in and out of character, especially Gosling, who is narrating the story.

The dystopic teaser co-stars the actor Tessa Thompson, whose character is abducted by a figure in military uniform, and who later embraces Monáe on a beach; it cuts then to Monáe lying on an examination table as a series of haunting and cryptic flashbacks play in rapid succession and she narrates: «They drained us of our dirt, and all the things that made us special.»

In other words, he tries to make us worried that someone might get killed... and yet assures us of the character's survival by having that person narrate.

Though the actor is terribly miscast in the role, he's hardly to blame for some of the script's more perplexing decisions — like having his character narrate the story as if he's a detective in a film noir, or the fact that he barely speaks a lick of Japanese despite being the military's expert on the local culture.

But Blood Wars «screenplay (by Kyle Ward, who co-conceived the story with Cory Goodman) is clunky and uneconomical; for a film that runs 90 minutes, it frequently stops dead in its tracks so characters can narrate the action, or highlight their shallow thoughts and emotions to the point of absurdity.

Narrated by Sam Elliot and starring an ensemble cast of some of the best character actors in the business, «The Big Lebowski» tells the story of two very different Jeffrey Lebowskis, one of whom is described as «the laziest in all of Los Angeles County» — a genial deadbeat who insists on being called The Dude (Jeff Bridges).

, «Timon: Behind the Legend» mockumentary Narrated by Peter Graves, Timon & Pumbaa's Virtual Safari 1.5, Deleted Scenes, «Hidden Mickey Hunt» (Use Your Remote To Find and Tally Hidden Mickeys Throughout the Film), «Find The Face» Game (Match Each Silhouette With The Disney Character's Picture), Music Video: «Grazing in the Grass» by Raven.

Although Kirke is our POV character, narrating the first trailer and bringing us into the story, Gerwig is the focus.

By now, we are accustomed to the smart - assed commentary that disfigured mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (Reynolds) offers as he narrates his life story, but it's still odd to see our main character blow himself to bits in the opening scene.

Consider asking students to narrate a map of a character's journey, create a timeline, sketch diagrams, animate a recording of the water cycle, or explain the results from a class poll.

We see children imagining these characters, but rather than narrating about them or telling about them they're actually performing them through their talk.

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Research the background of your subject matter, build a storyline around it, develop your characters, and let them narrate the facts.

Designing Digitally, Inc. is looking for Voice Over Talents to work on a variety of projects ranging from narrating eLearning projects to voicing characters for Training Simulations and Serious Games.