Sentences with phrase «on elaborate sets»

Thankfully, the film seems to rely as much on elaborate set design as it does on CGI, giving the dream world a welcome tactile quality.

Though the scenes of him living in his mother's basement, acting out fantasies on an elaborate set that he had constructed, wear as thin as the fantasy segments and feel more like a running joke that's run out of gas, De Niro is creepily convincing.

Not exact matches

Soccer players develop more elaborate skill sets when they play on a smaller field.

Don't let these intros drag on, or turn into an elaborate set - up of the «industry context.»

Those lawmakers accused Apple of setting up an elaborate system overseas to stash cash and avoid tax payments on at least $ 74 billion in profits between 2009 and 2012, facts that were uncovered in a Senate investigation on Monday.

He also has an elaborate set of materials available on the Internet.

There is something slightly surreal about sitting in a visiting room, having negotiated a set of elaborate security measures, including fingerprint scans, airlock doors and German shepherds, and watching a group of prisoners — including one of the country's most notorious inmates — hold up cardboard props and don mop heads for wigs, to the occasional shout of «Come on, daddy» from the audience.

He even acts out various stories in the living room (with elaborate sets, including couches on their sides and piles of cushions to jump into off our counter — not something a mama would think of regularly).

At the same time, preteens lavish lots of time and concentration on individual interests, which might include books, music elaborate construction of model - building sets, mature tools, sewing kits and paints.

But after his early April arrest on charges linking him to an elaborate bribery and conspiracy scheme involving five other lawmakers, another Republican set his sights on the seat.

In the following article we will set out the arguments for wealth taxes and elaborate on the main proposals that emerged from the report, on replacing council tax and inheritance tax, and introducing a land values tax and lifetimes receipts tax.

Mr. Rangel declined to elaborate on his comment about Mr. de Blasio, maintaining that he wanted to focus on the affordable housing press conference he was set to attend.

May is expected to put the mandate for Brexit at the heart of her election campaign but she was reluctant to elaborate on her plan beyond her formal document setting out her desire for more control over immigration, leaving the single market and removing the UK from the jurisdiction of the European courts.

It's easy to set up and you can make it as simple or as elaborate as you like... plus the magnetic quality to it means that you can take it in the car on long journeys to keep the back - seaters amused!

You can have your profile set - up and ready in a couple of minutes depending on how elaborate you want to be.

When a lucrative government contract is set to be awarded by honest government worker Jim Hawley (Tom Selleck), a low - life businessman (Barry Sullivan) attempts to get his hands on the contract by setting Hawley up for an elaborate blackmail scheme.

As The Disaster Artist (both the book and the movie) details, he made all sorts of bizarre, incompetent decisions, like shooting his movie on 35 - millimeter and digital film simultaneously at prohibitive expense, building elaborate and pricey sets for locations he could have filmed on for free, and firing crew members without cause at the drop of a hat.

For «Mission: Impossible,» director Brian De Palma (an odd choice, considering all the gory films in his mostly R - rated filmography, most famously «The Untouchables») also has three elaborate action set - pieces — a suspenseful caper set at a posh party, an intense break - in at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and a ridiculous but nonetheless thrilling chase on top of a bullet train that is speeding from London to Paris.

As the show goes live on national TV with Queen Latifah hosting and elaborate production design, the realization sets in that the bigger spectacle does not translate to a bigger event.

When there is no elaborate CGI action set piece on screen to wow the audience that is when the cracks really begin to show.

Plunged into a coma, Stu is dropped into a Freudian stew of elaborate set - design and partially - successful live - action integration called Downtown, helpless as Monkeybone takes over his flesh body, bangs his angelic gal Julie (Bridget Fonda), and parlays Stu's modest cartoon into a marketing monolith bent on pushing nightmare - inducing toys (ushering Monkeybone into the poorly - attended «Club Halloween III»).

And they pick up a wild - eyed 13th colleague (Iseya) on the way to setting an elaborate trap for Naritsugu and his 200 - strong entourage.

For her a source of inspiration was the film's elaborate hotel lobby set, created by production designer Adam Stockhausen, a previous Anderson collaborator and recen Oscar nominee for his work on «12 Years a Slave,» in a former department store in the storybook German town of Görlitz, near the border with Poland and the Czech Republic.

The sets Austerberry designed feature diverse, elaborate buildings, based on where the characters are located.

While it ticks all the boxes of what many deem to be a typical costume drama, e.g. upper class backdrop, domestic intrigue, suppressed lust, elaborate sets and, of course, costumes, The Young Victoria (2009) is a more valid commentary on the burden of extreme wealth and duty as barrier to happiness.

A Venetian setting, two masked balls, an elaborate themed menu, Salma Hayek said recently that she thought spending $ 2 million on the occasion would be ridiculous.

(1962), and «Vertigo» (1958) scheduled to be screened all on the same day, prepare yourself to be transferred back to a day of dancing, elaborate sets, and eye - dazzling colorful visuals.

By structuring the script and elaborating upon his characterization in such a way, Reitman subtlety sets up parallels that may have eluded us on first viewing but also do not stand out as complete emotional reveals.

A story about a single mom with a smart son and a normal son isn't «big» enough on its own, so it sets up the whole plot about «Well, what if the smart son realized the girl he had a crush on was being raped by her stepfather and set up an elaborate plan to kill the stepfather?»

Essentially it goes through each major sequence and elaborates on different components like stunts, effects, location challenges, and various experiences on the set.

Though the film's first end credit proudly proclaims «Filmed entirely on Zoetrope Studios» as if revealing you to be the victim of an elaborate hoax, you needn't be a Nevadan native or frequenter to spot the unreality of the setting.

Populated with henchmen, heroes, and femme fatales, punctuated with elaborate action sequences, and set against a backdrop of Weimar - era European decadence, DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER had an unmistakable influence on all the espionage thrillers that followed in its wake.

Much of the action still exists in the overheated claustrophobia of the Weston household, yet footage of the rolling Oklahoma fields, characters in cars, and other exterior shots distract as opposed to elaborate on a setting that's meant to be suffocatingly insular.

From Jordan Raup's Sundance review found on The Film Stage: «Aster displays proficient skill in eerie tone - setting, elaborate production design, and the type of scares that will leave a pervasive imprint on the mind.»

It's also hard to not see the missed opportunities on screen sacrificed for elaborate set pieces.

With The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson seems to be not so concerned with history, but with the history of cinema; we can see references to Kubrick and F.W. Murnau, and the plot descends into an elaborate caper full of bizarre character studies, wondrous sequences (including a superb cat - and - mouse chase where Gustave and Zero zoom down a precarious mountain atop a toboggan in pursuit of Willem Dafoe on skis), and meticulously - designed, glamorous sets that are reminiscent of the traits of classical Hollywood films and murder - mysteries.

Set the tone for an online culture that accepts all ideas and encourages teachers to elaborate on how they are using this new information to make a difference in their classroom.

In Washington, Congress passed a new law setting forth an elaborate process to individualize instruction for certain disabled students and many civil rights statutes creating protection based on race, gender, national origin, religion, age and disability.

The emphasis of a Town Meeting is on the learning process rather than a polished performance, formal costumes, or elaborate set design.

This may entail explaining (a) my particular tasks within the school setting, (b) the reasons I chose to pursue graduate studies in school psychology, or (c) elaborating on what my supervising school psychologist does to help students achieve their best behaviorally and academically.

As for wheels this red Huracan shows a set of exclusive Ares Design rims, ultra-light forged wheels at 20 inch up front and 21 inch at the rear... being a simple, five spoke design I guess some customers will want to have something more elaborate on their Huracan.

The Audi virtual cockpit is set in a free - standing housing and presents all the information on its 12.3 - inch display with elaborate and pin sharp graphics.

But, you should write a motivating description and possibly elaborate on how the book will be relevant or beneficial in school settings or at home.

These details weren't mentioned in this paranormal romance book, but they served to elaborate on the setting and give some «behind the scenes» details to my readers.

However, Leofric is less certain of the man's guilt and comes up with an elaborate plan to reveal the true killer.Set in Angeln on the Jutland peninsula, homeland of the Angle people, Leofric: Sacrifice is a Dark Age short - story set against the Germanic migrations that lead to the creation of the new Angle, Jute and Saxon kingdoms in the east of Roman Britain - the Angle - Lands.

Hundreds of years before European explorers set foot on the Americas, the American natives were already creating their own lavish and elaborate cities.

For a game with so much going on at nearly every moment, and set on such elaborate stages, Warhammer Vermintide 2 has a solid and reliable framerate and very few technical hiccups.

I found myself often setting up some elaborate traps, it not working, then moving on to setting up something easy to kill them quickly.

Like Dear Esther, Proteus is a first - person exploration game set on an island, but that's where the similarity ends: you won't find an elaborate spatial narration, ultimately linear like a Disneyland ride; you won't traverse a beautiful photorealistic landscape, ultimately dead like a Hollywood set.

It's some of the most elaborate table setting a game can manage, and Origins» Egypt is on track to do exactly that.