Sentences with phrase «narrative thrust»

- Publishers Weekly «The search for this killer feline serves as the narrative thrust for John Vaillant's fascinating exploration of the deteriorating relationship between humans and these menacing, now seriously threatened creatures... Whether read as an adventure story or as documentary about delicate ecosystems, The Tiger is a powerful book.

Two Days in the Valley has a narrative thrust to it and had an energy that we were looking for.

A spare and entirely unsentimental tale of five teenagers who one by one stumble into the clutches of a backwoods family of cannibalistic inbreds, the film has a far less traditional narrative thrust than Night of the Living Dead.

The key to the narrative thrust, and the window to Damon's hugely engaging and accessible performance, is Watney's decision to keep speaking to his mission log; playing to the camera to keep his spirits up, his indomitable nature and goofy wit shine through.

Garcia's obvious patience in telling this story does become increasingly problematic, however, with the movie's lack of narrative thrust never more evident than in its disappointingly stagnant midsection - as Garcia emphasizes the exploits of two relatively uninteresting figures (Johnson's Joe and Mia Wasikowska's Helen).

There's little doubt that Think of Me, for the most part, comes off as a typically subdued character study, with Ambrose's gritty, consistently captivating performance initially compensating for the expected lack of plot and narrative thrust.

One does not have to think hard to line up a lengthy list of small - budget comedies and dramas whose primary narrative thrust revolves around the trials and tribulations of a dysfunctional brood.

Here, a son — and now king — shaken by the loss of his father, must return to his homeland to be shaped into a true leader, where the general narrative thrust wouldn't be out of place shuffled in with some spare «Macbeth» passages.

If that sounds like a bizarre or boring premise for a major motion picture, Pitt and Hill, along with screenwriters Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, invest the film with humor, humanity, and a propulsive, if familiar, narrative thrust.

Mission evaluation goals crop up as you play, and each campaign builds in narrative thrust around a selection of mysteries - mysteries that aren't fundamentally that mysterious, if we're all being honest, because you know they're coming from the off.

So good is Cable that you wish the film would've allowed more room for growth with his inclusion into the story and while he plays a key role in proceedings, you still can't escape the feeling that the film would've grown as a whole had Brolin been allowed more spotlight, ditto for Dennisen and Reynolds budding mateship, that despite forming the core of the narrative thrust is never properly built up, making Wilson's mission as a whole less engaging than it could've been.

You'll need to adjust to the pacing, since the script by Melissa Mathison (E.T.) has no narrative thrust.

«The Imitation Game» feels competent and mostly involving, but never quite deeply connects beyond the race - against - time that is the narrative thrust of the movie — the longer the code breakers can not solve Enigma, the more lives of allies and loved ones are lost.

More pragmatic souls will grow restless over both its lack of narrative thrust and monotonously drawn - out scenes.

The film may take Greg's perspective for its narrative thrust, but there's no way to escape Tommy.

It's a character - based piece, but the structure is carefully considered with a clear narrative thrust and an unusual style.

There were two main narrative thrusts to the evening, one looking backward, one looking ahead — looking ahead was also looking outward, to a more inclusive film industry.

There are some nice narrative thrusts — the bit involving literally painting the town red — but Eastwood, with editor Ferris Webster and director of photography Bruce Surtees in tow, would direct a far superior Western, The Outlaw Josey Wales, three years later.

Not exact matches

They reversed the trend of apocalyptic narrative: instead of thrusting the decisive change out of the plot into the consummation, they brought the symbols of the end into the midst of the crisis of the story by applying them to Jesus.

Particularly inflammatory has been Jewett's rather casual aside that Paul was misled by his rabbinic training to misunderstand the truly egalitarian thrust of the creation narrative.

i understand the limited, temporary, singular validity of those decrees and I appreciate the redemptie thrust of the biblical narrative which culminates in Christ and His redemptive death 2.

Although the historicity of the whole gospel narrative is under serious scrutiny, and has been for a long time, the thrust of the story I believe, orbits around the themes the cross represents.

That is the real narrative of great leadership, it's the Corbyn narrative and it's markedly different to the: «First they send you to Oxbridge, then they give you a plum Special Adviser job, then they parachute you into parliament, then you become leader» narrative which would be thrust upon us by Oxbridge educated Special Advisers.

lacks the straightforward narrative or melodic thrust of The Wall, but it isn't as somnolent as The Final Cut, and if the songs don't call attention to themselves, they nevertheless form a long suite that works as a sustained mood piece.

That forward thrust, that sense of both character and audience not knowing how he'll react, or what he'll do next, gives the film an exciting narrative drive.

That is the main thrust of the narrative and it distinguishes what could be a feature - length toy commercial or just another Batman movie (albeit one performed by interlocking toys animated in a way resembling stop - motion).

In narrative mode, Jackie & Ryan casts Katerine Heigl as a former songstress and single mom with some serious issues, while Magic Mike XXL reprieves the original's abundance of pelvic thrusts, supported by a skimpy but sentimental jockstrap of a script.

The screenplay by Ellen Brown Furman hints at the political machinations behind the operation and the personal toll of such clandestine work, but the thrust of the narrative is the investigation itself.

Of the script, Ellroy said, «I saw that they had done a good job of compressing my story while maintaining the overall dramatic thrust of it, and I saw that they had contained the narrative structure of the three men.

TEW 2 has the narrative premise of Assassin's Creed, the story thrust and environmental inspiration of the first Silent Hill, (man heads into horribly transformed town to find his young daughter,) the stealth combat, item crafting, and enemy design of The Last of Us, and the light puzzle solving and overall tone of Resident Evil 4.

He invented the modern short story by changing the thrust of the narrative from mere relation of events to the revelation of character through incident.

Although I was always familiar with the broad thrust of the stories, I frequently had to piece the narrative together from fragments of a story obtained over an extended period of time.

The Collectors and Reaper threats are always lurking in the background, but never really thrust the larger narrative forward until the very end, which lends more time to Shepard and their crew to hang out and scour the galaxy for volunteers at their leisure.

Internationally acclaimed Texas - based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock is best known for his ongoing narrative and theatrical installations that thrust the viewer literally and figuratively into his personal, idiosyncratic, and, at times, heretical weave of words and images.

The symbolic thrust of her Lemon Hill project resonates in the new paintings shown in Architectures of Resistance with their open - ended iconography — a rebuttal to standard historical narratives.

In «Family Portrait» Bartos's accomplishes the rare feat of thrusting the female gaze onto a complicated, personal, narrative that leaves a nagging residue of unease long after you leave the gallery.

It seems that the thrust isn't so much about historical revisionism, but rather sustenance of a modern day narrative.

Further, we have attempted to replicate the thrust of the various arguments as they were articulated rather than synthesizing them into a homogenized narrative.

That project featured a single participant thrust into a thriller narrative.