Sentences with phrase «opening narration with»

Not exact matches

Instead of beginning with an image derived from prophetic discourse, that of another voice behind the prophet's voice, and extending it by analogy to narration, prescriptive saying, wisdom literature, hymnic compositions, and so on, we are delivered from psychologizing interpretations of revelation to a sensitivity to the sense of the text, to the world - reference it opens up before it.

Riding in an open safari vehicle across a 100 - acre savannah, we get semi-close encounters with black rhinos, elephants, and giraffes that have plenty of room to roam (although we could do without the cheesy narration about heading off imaginary poachers).

Director Tom McGrath, who worked on the furiously antic Ren & Stimpy Show before helming the Madagascar hits, opens Megamind with its titular (anti--RRB- hero's narration, as we watch the blue - skinned brainiac with the billboard - size forehead plummeting to his death.

The film opens pleasantly enough, with voiceover narration by Emma Thompson accompanying an image of the Voyager I spacecraft, the furthest man - made object from earth, hurtling toward the edge of the solar system.

The screenwriter and Howard do let Lauda and Hunt's marriages slip by with minimal coverage, and the film opens with unnecessary narration and wraps up with obvious dialogue, but Morgan makes up for such issues with his precision in detailing the central relationship.

The film opens with a celestial prologue and narration providing a sense of cosmic comfort of someone watching over it all, of some divine authority in charge.

Fargo's fourth episode opens with Billy Bob Thornton reading Peter and the Wolf, a symphonic fairy tale told primarily through musical expression and voice - over narration.

The opening moments of the film are contagiously energetic, with multiple locations seamlessly edited together through narration, breaking of the fourth wall, and snappy writing.

Since «George Washington» (2000) opens with a teenage girl's dreamy, wise - beyond - her - years narration as the camera floats in slow - motion through waving fields of grass and glides along railroad tracks, you probably don't need to be told that first - time feature director David Gordon Green, then just twenty five and fresh out of film school, was a big Terrence Malick fan.

It opens with some prehistoric animation, while narration by Hart introduces the different types of men and establishes the light, playful tone that will feature throughout.

Adapted from Burroughs» first Barsoom book (A Princess of Mars), John Carter (as the film would ultimately be called) opens with narration shattering our misconceptions about Mars.

The beginning of the trailer opens with a foggy view of the Congo, the tribe led by Hounsou's Mbonga, and Christoph Waltz as the narration ominously states:

This time he alludes to the art - cinema context much more directly by opening with music from Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim and evoking the form of that film with offscreen narration (delivered by Baumbach himself) recounting the story in past tense and with old - fashioned devices such as irises and wipes and French New Wave devices such as fantasy inserts, fleeting flashbacks, freeze - frames, and jump cuts.

Even the movie's Fight Club - lite opening with McAvoy's downtrodden office worker's voice - over narration doesn't grate as much as one would expect.

This 1998 film opens with a contrast between Sam Elliott's timeless, lyrical narration and the subject of it, one slovenly Jeffrey Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) of Los Angeles.

When Amy (Mila Kunis) opens the movie with an immediate barrage of exposition - dump narration about the two kids she had young and the challenges she faces as a working mother, the clunkiness feels believable, in its way: She doesn't have time to engage in graceful visual storytelling, especially not with the soft - focus, washed - out cinematography.

The Shape of Water opens with a brief narration by Richard Jenkins» Giles.

Instead, audio interviews with the founding members, Liam and Noel Gallagher — brothers infamous for their out - in - the - open combativeness toward each other — and bandmates, relatives and associates, are woven together to form an engaging narration.

From Allen's vigorous narration opening with an explicit reference to the film being set in the 1930's to the general, ever - so - slightly starstruck perspectives of Bobby and Vonnie, there is a melancholy and a longing for the times and stars that seem just out of reach (notably, no movie stars are ever shown, apparently just off camera).

Filmmaker Richard Levine, working from his own screenplay, delivers an opening stretch that admittedly doesn't hold much potential, as the writer / director places an excessive emphasis on narration from both Tucci and Timlin's respective characters - with the seemingly ceaseless voiceover making it initially impossible to work up any interest in the characters and their exploits (ie neither Ted nor Angela are developed beyond their most obvious attributes).

The movie's opening narration reminds us that it was not a pleasant time (1882) and place (Arizona), with disease, starvation, and violence claiming many victims.

Submission by Cat McAlpine Submission opens with the sardonic narration of an exhausted novelist / professor.

Lastly there is the theatrical trailer and opens with a short narration by James Earl Jones.

It opens with an explanation of who the Clauses are, and a sloppy narration sets up the sibling rivalry.

The film opens with first - person footage, edited together with sickening speed, and title - explaining motivational narration from narrator and U.S. Olympic gold medalist Jonny Moseley.

The excessive narration by Bridges kicks off with an observation about how young people always declare their love in the rain because they saw it in movies; that idea would hold more weight if «The Only Living Boy in New York» didn't open up the clouds every time something remotely dramatic happens.

Users of assistive technology will also find several improvements to viewing PDFs or Books with a screen reader, including more explicit narration when opening, loading, and navigating books.

And with both versions, it isn't easy to stop the Angie McCartney segments: On the iPad, touching the text box collapses it but doesn't stop the audio; you have to tap the icon again to open the box, then close it, to make the narration stop.

But these handfuls of dazzling prose drown in the proliferation of thick, meandering, third - person passages that dominate the remainder of the narration, and with them perishes the gripping «whodunit» thread promised by the novel's opening pages.

Part Two opens with a first person narration: Peilan speaks and finally we hear her side of the story, starting with her early life in a small village in China outside Fuzhou.

This sample should start with narration, not opening credits or music.

As soon as the trailer opens with Max's narration I could instantly tell that Rockstar have not totally chucked out the Film Noir core that makes the Max Payne franchise unique.Which makes a lot of sense as one of Rockstars biggest releases this year has been LA Noir, which again follows a film noir narrative.

Here, he offered four tracks, including an opening theme with narration, a 20 minute medley of Ogre Battle themes, the bouncy piano - led «Spectrum,» and the concluding piece «Neo-A Planet's Death,» a reprise from Troubadour's Great Wall.

The event will open with a screening of Trinh's film and a lecture to follow on April 21, which refuses the conventions of narration and mean - making in its montage of scenes shot in Senegal.