Sentences with phrase «of archetypal characters»

While the artist's third solo exhibition retains the diaristic backbone of her anxieties, indulgences and dreams, Morgan enriches her palette of archetypal characters with allegorical scenes.
He goes on the road for a cross-country journey, where in his aimless adventure he encounters a host of archetypal characters in many different states.
With its linear, mission - centric plot and collection of archetypal characters, «Hostiles,» which Cooper adapted from an unproduced manuscript by the late screenwriter Donald E. Stewart («Missing»), bears more than passing resemblance to such towering John Ford classics as «Stagecoach» and «The Searchers,» an affinity underlined by the sweeping landscape and kinetic action captured with keen sensitivity by cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi.
A wickedly funny, irreverent comedy, featuring a malapropism - peppered performance by Jennifer Coolidge and an impeccable cast of archetypal characters, Austenland hits all the right notes of the Regency era and our curious infatuation with it.
The cast of archetypal characters includes a Hooker With a Heart of Gold (Raymonde), a Wise - Beyond - Her - Years Teenager (Diana Hopper) and even a Young Woman Who Is Obviously Gorgeous But No One Can Tell Because She's Wearing Glasses (Olivia Thirlby).

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This is nonsense and it's been promulgated by both the mainstream media and the financial web, both of which sometimes opt for a cleaner story with pret - a-porter viewpoints and archetypal characters.
Hagrid is typical of how astutely Rowling fills every available archetypal niche, conjuring up characters, creatures and magical spells with effervescent delight.
The characters are incredibly archetypal; a madman megalomaniacal baddie and a downtrodden cop who deals with the death of his son by investing himself completely in his work (at the expense of tending to his family).
Individual characters are beautifully drawn, each distinctive yet archetypal, the product of writers, actors, and directors at the top of their game.
The archetypal example may be Max Ophuls» La Ronde, which followed a series of sexual contacts, leading to new characters and stories every 10 or 15 minutes.
These are archetypal characters, to be sure, but Fox and Seyfried are very good in expressing the intensity of teen - girl friendships.
As a result, Inherent Vice loses its personality and becomes a plodding travelogue of period seediness and archetypal character.
The performances prove to be one of the best parts of Collide because you can tell every character is embracing the mediocrity and trying to have fun with their archetypal roles.
The patience the film shows in exploring the dynamic of the Granite Mountain Hotshots as an ever - shifting but carefully balanced ecosystem allows for even the most archetypal characters here to feel fleshed out and genuinely human.
Desplechin's latest, My Golden Days, represents a three - point return: to Roubaix, previously the setting of his family ensemble piece A Christmas Tale; to the rap and college rock 1980s of his youth; and to the archetypal characters of what's still one of his best films, My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into An Argument, the freeform, three - hour hip relationship drama to end all hip relationship dramas.
Character progression allows for plenty of ways to play each of the three classes and keep them from being too archetypal.
In a Valley of Violence begins like many oaters we've seen in the past and the archetypal characters that therein show all the hallmarks of cowboy picture platitudes; Paul (Ethan Hawke) is a self - effacing drifter who appears more like a peacenik than the dangerous army deserter we suspect him to be; Gilly (James Ransone) is a murderous intimidator; Mary - Anne (Tessa Farmiga) is a virginal ingenue; Marshal Clyde Martin (John Travolta) is the conflicted reprobate law man; and so on.
It is a cyclical film (beginning and ending with the founding of a town) with archetypal characters (father / son aggressions, mother / daughter deceptions), and it is told like Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, through image and an almost instinctual understanding of the stories inherently related by a time and a place.
A richly detailed period gem boasting the British Raj's exotic setting and a gripping «whydunit» spun around an intriguing cast of archetypal mystery characters
Hendricks makes unflinching use of the archetypal noir story — flawed character in a flawed world wants more, gets less — but she does it in a voice that's all her own.
I may not have the fortune of purchasing every writing craft book out there, but my self - study into writing means that I at least know what I'm looking for: If I feel the need to play with a new structure for outlining a novel, or feel, perhaps, that my story needs a different archetypal character.
Yet, 37 years later, PAC - MAN is still one of the most archetypal characters in gaming.
[62] Destructoid editor Jim Sterling criticized the story for its archetypal characters and immature dialogue, stating that the game fails to understand the essence of Aliens.
The rest of the team may fall into the archetypal roles easily enough; hard - ass second in command, snarky sniper, etc, but I had such a huge soft spot for Jorge, feeling this was the best new character they had introduced in the series for an age.
Indigo Prophecy had a lot of interesting ideas for merging narrative with interactivity, but most definitely suffered from archetypal characters, an over-the-top storyline, and, often, awkward dialogue.
In Stygian, you will create your main character from scratch, with access to several archetypal backgrounds, each with its own origin story, skills, traits, and belief system, the last of which determines how your character replenishes lost sanity as well as presenting unique dialog choices.
The gameplay involves choosing one of four archetypal characters (to fit different play - styles) and then going off and shooting things, collecting loot (in the form of weapons, shield mods and grenade mods) and cash, and completing missions (which generally involve shooting things).
On one hand Jones looks to Buddhist practices and meditation as a source of energy in the creation of his work yet everywhere we look we see Wolverine masks and Black Flag logos (originally designed by Raymond Pettibon in the late 70's) which conjure a kind of brash male ego enterprise (the rocker, the comic book character) The use of these two archetypal symbols feel earnest.
What / Why: «A group show of artwork inspired by archetypal themes — fundamental types of characters or situations embedded in the collective unconscious of all human beings»
In Cindy Sherman's famed Untitled Film Stills series, most of the 69 photographs depict the artist as a archetypal character known from the movies: a housewife, a femme fatale, a working girl, and everything in between — all evoking the ways the cinema has the tendency to objectify women.
Here his subjects are friends, acquaintances and archetypal characters of that period, portrayed in relaxed and happy situations: people chatting on a sofa, lovers lying in bed or a man chilling in an armchair, like in Renato e Poltrona (1965).
It will also include works featuring the blue man, a recurring character in Bickerton's paintings who is loosely based on Gauguin and whom Bickerton describes as a «parody of the archetypal 19th - century anti-hero».
Organized loosely in three intersecting sections that represent recurring archetypal characters in Sarabia's oeuvre — The Migrant, The Mystic, and The Greater Fool — the exhibition aims to problematize the chronological format of the traditional survey show while highlighting the complex relationships and networks that have facilitated Sarabia's expansive practice for almost twenty years.
These archetypal characters play up or down certain characteristics of her autobiography.
The objects and bodies of the Tobias tableaux are often drawn from archetypal folk figures of their Transylvanian heritage, including the notable character Vlad the Impaler, as well as Romanian political lineages of dictatorial urbanization and Socialist architecture.
The Lion and the Unicorn is a short film in which three archetypal characters debate points of view on nationalism, trade and finance, natural resources and politics.
Through his illustrative storytelling, Trenton Doyle Hancock has developed the Mounds and the Vegans, a distinct set of mythological characters that the museum describes as «two diametrically opposed universal forces that play out the archetypal battle between good and evil.»
The character played by Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory was the archetypal conspiracy theorist: able to accumulate lots of information, but inclined to over-associate and to marshal the facts accordingly.
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