Sentences with phrase «narrative arc of the story»

The central narrative arc of the story is the revenge tale, and Amsterdam's attempts to get close enough to Bill to kill him.

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Your summary story must be a story — that narrative arc of your career.

To understand Noah, and to give his character a story arc, Aronofsky and his co-writer, Ari Handel, spent 10 years poring over the Book of Genesis and the midrash — stories written by rabbis to fill out the Bible's narratives.

The most tantalizing result of Cohn's study (recently published in Cognitive Psychology) emerged when he showed subjects panels arranged so that they had a narrative arc but didn't add up to a meaningful story.

Based on the world - renowned manga and anime series Berserk by Kentarou Miura, Berserk and the Band of the Hawk closely follows the events of the most well - known story arcs from the iconic manga's narrative, focusing on the violent and heroic adventure of Guts, Casca, the Band of the Hawk, and Guts» Traveling Party throughout their perilous conquest against a sinister realm of demonic fiends.

Silent Hill: Downpour takes a page from previous titles by exploring a narrative that is independent of the main story arc, making the main antagonist the town itself.

But what's most surprising is that while it's Ewa's arc that occupies most of our attention, the narrative pulls a skillful bait - and - switch on us in such a way that by the end it feels more like Bruno's story.

In a film that sets up a stark conflict between Mildred and an incompetent police department, the sight of her gingerly cradling Bill's face as he shamefully apologizes complicates the narrative, prefiguring later arcs of redemption and self - doubt that expand the already enormous moral range of McDonagh's story.

With an approach that emphasises internal feelings and character journeys, over more obvious things like narrative structure and story arcs, this Brazilian - German film challenges audiences to explore a series of important issues in ways movies...

In the middle of shooting his third feature, Soft in the Head, he decided to steer the improvised film's narrative arc in a new direction, retreating to the roof of the apartment building where he was shooting to scrawl out story beats on a napkin alongside his producer and Cody Stokes, his director of photography and frequent collaborator.

Each of the play's many extended family members is crucial to the arc of the narrative, their secrets and lies and blind spots all converging into one operatically messy family story, yet when translated to the language of film, their individual presences greatly damage time and space.

Code Veronica has one of the more outlandish narratives in the series, and copiously piles in more twists and turns into a convoluted story arc that was beginning to sag under its own weight.

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool has a strange narrative arc — its buoyant early notes given over to a downbeat story of illness, and many scenes of bedside nursing.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy benefited greatly from characters being dropped from the story because they didn't fit the narrative arc of the project but in this case Jackson and his screenwriters raided Tolkien's notes and appendices from other stories to pad out what is essentially a very simple tale into a sprawling epic.

Despite some acknowledgement that the storyline has been contorted to fit a traditional narrative story arc, and the fact that we know where the story is eventually going to lead long before all of the pieces come into play, Belle hits the right notes at the right times to please fans of «hoity - toity» period piece dramas.

Falling into same the pratfalls of Ayer's previous effort, Fury, Suicide Squad is another case where story elements are continuously piled on in the hopes that a coherent narrative arc will emerge.

Delicately adapted from Willy Vlautin's 2010 novel, it follows classical narrative arcs of both the coming - of - age story and the great American road movie, yet with precious little of the romanticism and sentimentality that tends to accompany them: Haigh, rather like his stoic protagonist, keeps his eye quietly and pragmatically on the destination.

Twenty free blog articles each focusing in even more depth on one particular aspect of story craft, including narrative point of view, conflict, story arc, and so on.

-- Reworked narrative, character arcs & dialogue on four seasons of Facebook - based THE WALKING DEAD SOCIAL GAME — Designed narrative and wrote story / dialogue on two seasons of THE WALKING DEAD: NO MAN»S LAND (iOS / Android)

A: The «narrative arc» is a fancy way of saying that every story needs to have a beginning, middle, and end.

Another phenomenon mentioned in the story are books that are nothing more than compilations of Wikipedia articles and blogs on some important topic, slapped together without regard to narrative arc or even coherence, and sold as authoritative works.

A more advanced form of editing, known as developmental editing, involves just that — the development of your narrative and story arc.

Simon skillfully develops their separate stories into a narrative that spans 40 years, tracing the arc of their growth into parents and successful communicators.

Successful writers I know — whether they're published commercially or self - published — need to write and rewrite their books many times, usually with the support of a developmental editor, not someone who does spelling and punctuation but a creative partner who is able to identify and solve problems with the story, structure, characterization, dialogue, visual description, literary style, pacing, the narrative arc — with a first, second, and third act that engages the reader and reaches some kind of epiphany or denouement that entertains, illuminates and provides emotional satisfaction for the reader.

Get to know the story of Vito Scaletta in Mafia II and let it make his narrative arc that much stronger in this third installment.

The game's wider narrative arcs are unveiled today in a captivating Story Trailer, brought together with an eerie cover of (Don't Fear) the Reaper.

The narrative takes insight from Yoshitaka Murayama who was a part of Suikoden that combines some old and new story arcs together to make a decent handheld JRPG which reminds me of the old school titles like Chrono Trigger.

«While part of the story of Left Behind takes place during the main narrative arc of The Last of Us, I think some of the best and most touching moments of any game in recent memory occur during the prequel segments, as we follow Ellie and Riley as they sneak out of boarding school to visit an abandoned mall, getting one final chance to enjoy their friendship before Riley leaves to join the Fireflies,» Meyer wrote.

There are even some narrative differences between the two characters, with certain members of the supporting cast being more prevalent in one character's story arc than the other, and other small, appreciated changes.

The durational nature of these works, combined with their narrative arc, offers an intimate treatment of a controversial topic, indicating that migration is, at its core, a story about individual people.

In these shows, the narrative arcs of meta - stories are reinvented over multiple seasons by collaborative and ever - shifting casts of writers, directors and actors.

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