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