Sentences with phrase «on classic tropes»

Crossing Souls is a serviceable action - adventure fueled by 1980s nostalgia, but its dependence on classic tropes isn't enough to make it remarkable.

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And also because we were able to put our own spin on a classic holiday trope.

I only saw one instance of what's become a classic goat yoga trope: a goat climbing up on a person in child's pose.

Driven largely by instinct and a cult of personality, the company's one - time dream team of «merchant prince» Mickey Drexler and «geek chic» creative director Jenna Lyons transformed the sleepy American catalogue business into a retail success story and cultural phenomenon, widely loved for its tongue - in - cheek take on classic, preppy tropes and famously embraced by former US first lady Michelle Obama.

Sticker Star's lavish tapestry of neat touches keeps you pushing forwards in spite of the wonky puzzling and boring combat, and its vibrant, buoyant world marries so well with the script's deliciously wry take on Mario's classic tropes.

Rudolph, a gifted stylist who operates mainly as an independent, can be regarded as a child of Hollywood: he was the son of studio director Oscar Rudolph, and his style is predicated largely on a nostalgia for classic Hollywood tropes.

There is, in fact, more going on beneath the sheet to make the ghost look substantial, to have discernible body language, but Lowery's use of such a classic childhood trope somehow makes his striking images indelible — a familiar image used to upend a genre.

Though the «sex equals death» rule isn't as prominent in modern horror movies that defy those decades - old tropes, «It Follows» is very much a retro homage to «70s and «80s genre classics, from the «Halloween» - esque synth score, to the striking similarities to «Nightmare on Elm Street,» both in Jay's perpetual helplessness and the film's dreamlike atmosphere.

With the mystical overtone of Ingmar Bergman overlaid on a framework that is unabashedly Sergio Leone by way of John Ford, Quentin Tarantino ably deconstructs the tropes of the classic western while boldly evoking the metaphysical overtones of the ci - mentioned Bergman and the violent intensity of the ci - mentioned Leone.

The film takes all the tropes of the classic gangster movie and, whilst never skimping on the violence or seediness, presents something slicker, more complicated.

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.

There is little in the way of nostalgia, or classic video game tropes on display in this Kaiju - infused Japanese key art for Rampage.

It's essentially a blend of «John Wick» and classic Western tropes in that Ethan Hawke plays a man who seeks vengeance on an entire town of deplorables after the death of his dog.

His early works were amazing takes on classic horror tropes, like vampires and zombies and werewolves.

Lauded for its largely unique contribution to the horror game genre, it eschews jumpscares for mounting tension and creative takes on classic horror tropes.

This classic game trope shows up right when you expect it as you are on the final stretch to fight the big bad.

Shooting opposing players does kill splat them, creating a small burst of your ink and sending them back to their respawn point — so there are classic shooter tropes still — but the emphasis on the environment makes Splatoon unique, fresh and perfect for a younger audience.

In these titles the themes, tropes, and icons of classic games take on an almost mythic quality.

Based on disturbing events Mars witnessed while visiting a relative at a mental hospital, his new work explores the dark crevices of the mind, approaching this classic horror trope with sensitivity and nuance.

Artist's Response: The grass is always greener on the other side Saturday 12 June 2010, 1.00 pm, New Galleries, IMMA Mark Joyce, the Irish painter and IADT lecturer, will speak in the context of his own practice, exploring classic tropes found in manifestos of artists and composers in the Modernist period and how this may have informed Morton Feldman's relationship with the visual arts.

Not just a classic Hollywood blockbuster and a landmark sci - fi movie, T2 presents a twist on the trope of machines that kill: the idea of a guardian machine programmed to protect humans rather than destroy them.