Sentences with phrase «old trope of»

From the mind of UK - based indie developer Lawrie Games Ltd., comes a brand new adventure that may be orchestrating itself around that tired - old trope of recovering / regaining what one has lost (in this case, a remote control), but TRASH TV is not just another by - the - numbers side - scrolling indie platformer.

Whether appearing as the female leader of the Dark Army or the male Chinese Minister of State Security, he was always absolutely mesmerizing to watch, offering glimmers of insight but never full access to the character's agenda and putting a slyly subversive spin on the old trope of the «inscrutable Oriental.»

What surprises and delights here is that the old trope of cat and mouse, Spy v Spy is given a 360 degree turn and works so well that Killing Eve becomes your new obsession!

Unfortunately, Bravo relies on old tropes of «good» and «bad» guys and contrived awkward sexual interactions.

Certainly, the old tropes of historic publishing remain — the feel and smell of a book, the pleasure of holding it, the sense of tradition you get sitting by a fire with a novel.

When designing a kids room, it is easy to slip into the old tropes of blue, pink, and yellow.

Not exact matches

The widespread press coverage of U2charists has followed a familiar trope: «Stuffy old church updates for new day.»

Definition of PLATITUDE an idea or expression that has been used by many people Synonyms banality, bromide, chestnut, cliché (also cliche), groaner, homily, platitude, shibboleth, trope, truism Related Words conventional wisdom, party line, routine; inanity; generality, generalization, simplification; adage, proverb, idiom, saw, saying; old wives» tale, stereotype Near Antonyms profundity

While the trope of the «mom who breastfeeds for way too long» and «the bratty kid who breastfeeds for way too long» is relatively new (due, I am certain, in no small measure to increased rates of breastfeeding in the U.S.); around the world and throughout history, children nursed for way longer than one year old.

The truth is that those old tropes, which were weaponised by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and are borrowed now by eastern European fascists, are just extreme versions of a kind of rhetoric which is already very popular in the Brexit press.

Cameron was clearly evasive and relied on old tropes such as the union attack, which is anyway of questionable value.

Just as the rise of third - wave feminism tries to crush the idea that a woman's worth comes only from her ability to attract men, why do sugar babies appear to be running backwards towards old, sexist tropes?

Bowed down with the weight of the past, rushing through their stories to solemnly validate that heritage, they rob us of the moments in the present when those same old reliable tropes can kindle once again.

Skyfall is not without its weak spots — Bardem's master plan is ultimately a bit blunt and unartful, the script is not terribly good to women (wish they'd get rid of that old Bond trope for good), Whishaw and Craig regrettably don't kiss — but, all cards on the table, it's still a knockabout success.

Our intrepid hero, also a she, an older Asian woman to boot (something one NEVER sees on TV) on a worldwide hunt / chase for this evil Bond using only her wits and no weapons, special gadgets, or any of the usual tropes one sees in these sorts of

UnReal is simultaneously a very dark satire of reality TV and a soap opera that breathes new life into old tropes by placing them in this very familiar, modern setting.

It's a friendship free of the usual tropes, of young and old, experience and inexperience.

The tropes of the old school action shoot «em up simply don't cut it for most people anymore.

The story is female - centric, ripped from the headlines, and pits a fiercely loving mother and her vulnerable child against a predatory older man, all tropes of the type of TV movie that makes middle - aged moms cry into their chardonnay.

Where Austin Powers poked fun at the James Bond movies» familiar tropes and old - fashioned misogyny by imitating them to exaggerated levels, Spy's female focus allows for a different and more knowing kind of parody, while also giving McCarthy her most nuanced role to date.

Even the film's petty villains — a pair of fellow female students narcissistically absorbed in their own beauty in a failed effort to age up that tired high school trope — are mean simply for the sake of being mean, not driven by any pathos or motivation beyond Deanna being... older, I guess?

On the one hand, the premise and story are a clever adoption of old fairy tale tropes (the pauper princess, heroic warrior savior, evil quasi-relatives, completing three trials, etc.) dressed up as modern big - budget sci - fi.

The film starts off gloriously enough with a brilliantly filmed action piece set in Mexico City's Day of the Dead parade, but Mendes and crew soon settle into a muddled, anti-climactic mishmash of old tropes and familiar ideas.

Attenborough's heartfelt admiration for the man's philosophy of resistance through peace is indisputable, yet it is expressed exclusively in conventional coffee - book epic tropes that render it a swollen underdog tale, with Gandhi as the exotic center of a huge, guest - star cast of Hollywood Yanks (Martin Sheen, Candice Bergen) lending liberal cred and old - pro Brits (Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard) supplying Imperial villainy.

Writer - director - star Michael Rosenbaum indulges in countless old - hat genre tropes in Back In The Day, a tale of an average Joe who goes home for his high - school reunion, pals around with buddies, and tries to rekindle a romance with his ex.

If director Bruce McDonald proved anything with acclaimed genre darling Pontypool, it's that he's not afraid to think way outside of the box when it comes to deconstructing old tropes.

Screenwriters - by - committee Keith Sharon, Alfred Gough, and Miles Millar, patching together an abominable iteration of the same old Lethal Weapon tropes, have conspired to get De Niro to immediately make 15 Minutes again (but as an alleged intentional comedy) and to continue Eddie Murphy's typecasting as an animated jackass.

The horror - film tropes resurface only intermittently in their later films: a hand bursting out of the ground, recalling the final shot of Carrie, during the prison break in 1987's Raising Arizona (a shot also used in The Evil Dead); the wood chipper that in Fargo (1996) is put to the grisly use that Marty had intended for his incinerator; Anton Chigurh's slasher murders in No Country for Old Men (2007); and, most acutely of all, in Barton Fink (1991), a film about a writer's worst nightmare, writer's block, complete with sweating wallpaper, expanding plumes of blood, and a hellfire climax.

Directed by James Whale in between Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, The Old Dark House (1932) injects a touch of camp and a jigger of sexual frankness into the gothic tropes of a creepy manor in a thunderstorm.

While I'm a little skeptical of the decision for a vague Eastern European accent from Chastain, at least it's something different than the old «an English accent will work for any foreign story» trope that's been going on forever.

Everything feels studied, a pastiche of old noir tropes and current pop sensibilities.

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.

This gets a place on the list by being much, much better than I thought it was going to be, and for successfully pulling off an American version of the old kids» book trope, kids - go - into - countryside - and - discover - magic.

This is another game that tried to skewer some old video game tropes of reveals and it felt like Capcom has finally become aware of how ridiculous it can be as a company.

Once inside, they discover there's much more to the bunker - including a very pasty old slender man, as well as the horror trope of «they must face their most private secrets.»

Maybe this is why the filmmakers have jettisoned most of the old fogy Gene Roddenberry tropes and pitched their cybertent with the under - 25 set — the Twitter Trekkies.

He elevates the character above what has been written for him — a series of quips and witty ticks built upon an old school hitman trope.

(In a clever subversion of an old trope, this film offers a small - town diner where a table full of gossipy old men — with Bruce Dern as their ringleader — pass judgment on everyone's comings and goings.)

This raunchy look at growing up in a broken home hits all of the classic tropes with panache — living in the shadow of an older sibling, an absentee mother, nursing a crush on the high - school bad boy and the student - teacher friendship.

This is the same old Cinderella trope located firmly within the «Family Guy» generation, the film's hip acknowledgment of genre conventions (the absurdity of talking animals, the modern irrelevance of royalty) nevertheless failing to capitalize on that newfound consciousness in any meaningful way.

Screenwriters John Ronson and Peter Straughan (who very loosely based the character on Frank Sidebottom, the comic persona of the late U.K. performer, Chris Sievey, amongst other musicians) are aware of the thin line between madness and genius, but rather than exploit that tired trope, they use it as a jumping off point to explore issues as inherent to both art and life as identity, voice, creative output, and that age old question of what it really means to sell out.

The film's plot also feels like a derivative and Goth - infused mash - up of the age - old werewolf vs. vampire trope, mixed with the bullets and leather stylings of The Matrix (as it happens, Underworld's 2003 theatrical release was sandwiched by the two Matrix sequels).

As Horacia puts two and two together at a key point late in the film, Diaz gives his own spin on a hokey, century - old visual trope by placing the entire scene out of focus; his heroine only comes into sharp definition as she walks away, toward the camera.

Blame and One Percent More Humid repeat the tired trope of female students having affairs with their older male teachers, a familiar storyline on just about every teen - oriented TV series, though their emphasis on the strengths and dangers of teen girl friendships was strong.

If these costumed super heroes are truly the gods of our time and the films that they are in each summer are our contemporary mythological canon, then these films should reflect our current understanding of each other, including visual representation of women and minorities, instead of parading out old narrative tropes and stereotypes as if they were steadfast truths.

It's refreshing to see a film about an older man and younger woman that doesn't involve some sort of icky, Woody Allen-esque romance, because although «The Intern» isn't technically a romantic comedy, it features many of the same tropes reworked to fit Ben and Jules» platonic relationship.

Bransford says he doesn't believe the old trope that students must master a battery of content - specific facts before they can have a prayer of learning higher - order skills.

Nowadays that trope is just old hat to most readers of zombie books.

It has a lot of shojo manga tropes, but handles them in a way that they don't feel old or tired.

That's why the first pages of this hit on some of the oldest genre tropes.