Sentences with phrase «of narrative device»

A leading theory for the un-killing of these Avengers is linked to some sort of time reversal; the kind of narrative device that's a common refrain in comic book story lines.

Now, this is more of a narrative device than a cause - effect relationship, especially for Cincy.

All of these narrative devices are nicely packaged into the game's mechanics, making for an immersive experience where your actions will affect the overall outcome.

Not exact matches

With millennials consuming more and more of their media through mobile devices and social platforms, executives at Indigenous Media bet that Snapchat users would warm quickly to the idea of following a narrative story posted in regular installments to social media, as opposed to the traditional theatrical experience.

In the past, poets had a much wider array of devices to shape their poems and delight attentive readers: argument, narrative, allegory, extended metaphor, metaphysical conceit, to name a few.

The biographies, basic and concise, provide lesser - known and engaging elements of each saint's life, though they serve primarily as narrative devices that possess greater value for Campbell than for her readers.

In a catalog I recently edited of devices and instruments for congregational research, only a small minority of the hundred or so entries is designed to explore a congregation's narrative identity.20 Most doctor of ministry programs continue the tradition: perusal of the theses and essays these programs produce strongly suggests that projects that employ contextual, mechanist, or organicist methods are more likely to be accepted than those that delve into congregational culture and story.

But from the perspective of saving species, it's a MacGuffin: a plot device that may impel the tired conservation narrative forward but is hardly a pragmatic strategy for preserving biodiversity.

The recurring fairy - tale narrative device might fool viewers into thinking FABLED has more of a story than is actually there.

If the old - style gameplay and a little rust on the narrative devices does not scare you, Modern Warfare Remastered could be a good alternative to the most reknowned shooter of this year, hiding behind a decade of history a fun and quick gameplay.

But you can recognize the crudeness of the movie's narrative devices and still have an awfully good time.

It's a tried and true narrative device: throw a bunch of disparate people into the story pool and see how they swim.

It is pretty predictable, and once the case of mistaken identity narrative device settles down, you can pretty much figure how the next forty minutes of the movie are going to play out.

This show has a lot of traditional narrative devices that do not necessarily play out in traditional narrative ways.

Part of what makes L'Avventura so impressive is that Antonioni developed a cohesion of narrative and stylistic devices that had only haphazardly surfaced in his earlier films.

Every few episodes there is a narrative device that threatens to drastically shake up the comfortable, familiar setting of the show.

I realise that at this stage of the book, Bilbo is a narrative device rather than an active character, but there is still a lack of that ordinary Hobbitness that made the previous two films so heart - warming.

It has to be said the movies refusal to take itself to seriously gives it a boost of revitalisation and fun as it runs through its otherwise tedious narrative, one monotonous plot device at a time.

From the use of the framing device, insertions of historical footage and animated interludes, to the staging and blocking of the murder scenes, everything serves a purpose that helps build a narrative that's at once lucid and unspeakably nightmarish.

It kind of worked, bringing a nice relationship between the two characters and Farrell acting as a narrative device for the audience to explore McClane's character a bit more.

Oddly enough, none of these devices have the Brechtian alienation effect of taking us out of the action in order to induce critical reflection; rather, they are shortcuts that propel us further into the naturalistic narrative.

No less important, this film relies on a variety of storytelling devices and narrative forms, such as narrative painting, the gothic tale, the incest story, the letter, the dream, the flashback, the omniscient narrator, and the horizontal wipe.

While Lampoon is a thing of the past, Wain keeps A Futile and Stupid Gesture fresh with its zany narrative devices, while speaking louder to the modern - day anti-establishment.

Following a single father who works as a human billboard in Taipei, and his left - to - their - own - devices kids, with the presence of their mother represented by three different actresses, the film has the barest thread of story (Tsai has admitted that he no longer has any real interest in narrative), and seems determined to provoke less patient audience members into walking out, with a series of shots that last upwards of ten minutes without all that much movement in them.

The parallel narratives are a delightful device, and Gwyneth Paltrow, in the most outstanding performance of an already impressive career, dazzlingly displays how wonderfully and subtly she brings characters to life.

This film moves along haphazardly and half - heartedly, rarely following through on any of its structural or narrative devices.

Utilizing a cut - and - paste animation style with a photographic edge to recreate scenes from Hicks's life, usually to cheeky effect, American turns some 90 minutes of interview footage into a smooth, illustrated, altogether agreeable narrative that is chock - full of anecdotes and achieves a genuine intimacy without resorting to hero - worship (only the occasionally lame visual, such as the whitewashed depictions of tripping during Bill's mushroom blowouts at Kevin Booth's ranch, weaken the device).

After seeing the packed narratives within narratives of part one, Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One seems, as Miguel Gomes himself suggested, a very different film, connected to the first by the framing device, theme and some of the performers (assuming different roles in the new installment) rather than through narrative continuation.

The idea of a Scientology - like «religion» is used only as a narrative framing device — the film itself poses much more thought - provoking questions.

The storyline is sort of held together by the framing device of Murphy's narrative, but while it does a job it's still a bit of a folksy irritant.

Haneke has no use for the usual grab - bag of worn out narrative devices.

Szifrón avoids a lot of elements one expects from anthology films these days; no framing device, no wraparound story, and no narrative links between segments.

Not all of it works: Recurring ghostly appearances by the dead Orlando are a hoary narrative device, and Aretha Franklin's «(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman» is a slightly jarring soundtrack choice.

Again, it's as if LvT is arguing with himself over narrative devices and the strength of his own storytelling.

They both know it, and it forms the basis of the Junior Jedi Psychic Hotline that is the most interesting narrative device in Rian Johnson's competent next entry in the Star Wars saga.

Complaints about production values, narrative devices, visual metaphors were subdued when African directors began following the principles of the Third Cinema movement and rejected the Hollywood model.

There aren't big gaps of plot development or brute force narrative devices.

Amnesia is one of those old go - to tropes in gaming: an oft - used narrative device, conveniently paving the way for some nice scene - setting while also justifying drawn - out tutorials.

If the revealing of twists through repeating what we have already seen through a new lens sounds like a passé plot device, The Handmaiden «s use of that narrative structure is so precise and absorbing to convince you otherwise.

We haven't even mentioned the narrative device used to tell the story of «Moby Dick» s inception, as the author of that classic American epic, Herman Melville, is himself too a character in Howard's whale tale.

The Kubruckian overtones of Interstellar make it an intriguing fit for Chris Nolan's storytelling style and mise - en - scène (re: visual composition); plus, wormholes present an obvious narrative device for jumping around in time (as he's inclined to do, regardless).

The framing device that depicts unresolved black urban violence suggests a narrative lapse, yet it's very different from the patronization of political media - makers today.

In a nice touch, he uses the latter - day testimony of Bulger's old partners as an effective narrative device: the feeble revenge of underlings grizzled, used, arrested, utterly spent.

Taken collectively, these artifacts are the mother of all MacGuffins - plot devices that drive the narrative, but may or may not have much to do with the true message of the story.

The film Ratter stays very close to the real life applications of «ratting», the entire narrative is shown through the victim's hacked devices making us, the viewer, also a voyeur and accomplice.

This is the kind of storytelling and getting into a world and the reality that you can achieve by following a story over time and just telling it in a way that uses the same storytelling devices that a narrative feature would use.

But in Nightwatching this is not merely a stylistic device but intrinsic to the narrative, which is concerned with the creation, interpretation and impact of Rembrandt's famously theatrical Night Watch painting.

In a tonally bizarre framing device that never feels right, the film uses John Holmstrom (Josh Zuckerman), founder of Punk Magazine, as the audience proxy into the venue's happenings, and it also uses his publication's cartoonish aesthetic as narrative punctuation.

The twists and turns of the narrative are largely predictable — and more than one plot device is lifted wholesale from the «Mission: Impossible» series — but the character shading and vast political subtext provides for a dynamism that few superhero films have attempted.

Those hooks can be a number of things: a compelling premise, the narrative and storytelling devices, relatable characters, an addictive gameplay mechanic, you name it.