Sentences with phrase «opening prologue of»

The series: The Substance of Style, is in 5 parts, ending with a fully annotated playing of the sublime opening prologue of The Royal Tenenbaums.

Not exact matches

Genesis opens with «In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth» and John, whose Gospel recounts the history of the Logos that «became flesh», echoes this at the start of his prologue «In the beginning was the Word...» With that phrase «In the beginning» John ties together the two events the Creation and the Incarnation.

Yet as soon as these closing verses of the prologue are connected to the opening words of the evangelist, the body of the gospel that follows must necessarily be included because the subsequent content of Jesus» life elucidates the disclosure of 1:18 b as well as the discrepant eschatologies that are conveyed by the two numerical schemes of verse 17.

Consider this one, which opens the prologue: In Warsaw in the fall of 1939, a pair of Nazi soldiers were harassing a Jewish child on the street.

It's the kind of opening — derived straight from the prologue of the novel — that sets you wondering about what, exactly, you're about to see.

The prologue before the opening credits, set before the main story, is a microcosm of everything that happens after: Jack, trying to settle down with a woman, is ambushed by faceless killers that he quickly and impressively dispatches before walking away from the whole situation to start over somewhere else.

The character has no franchise potential, as the film opens with an epilogue - as - prologue about Poe's death, but maybe Cusack and his director, V for Vendetta's James McTeigue, were still hoping for that same kind of pithy, indelible hero.

* It doesn't help that The Shadows origin story is quickly glossed over through the combination of a rushed opening prologue and an ensuing text crawl.

We see his reasons in a flashback which leads to a deliciously on - target lampoon of a James Bond opening musical number (song courtesy of Celine Dion) complete with Deadpool - inspired fake credits that act as a commentary on the prologue.

His latest is no exception, a fastidious visual ballad prefaced by an exquisitely - detailed prologue that provides some quick but necessary exposition, reminiscent of the breathtaking, «meet the family» opening to his 2001 commercial breakthrough, The Royal Tenenbaums.

There is, in fact, more filmmaking savvy in co-writer and director Ryan Coogler's prowling opening shot, introducing us to young Adonis Johnson in a 1998 LA prologue, than there was in all of the»76 original.

Yet when it drops you into Afghanistan, it's already quite clear that this prologue was not a sign of things to come, as it opens up and gives you free reign to flex your tactical espionage muscles.

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.

Also removed: a prologue in which medical scans of Lake's brain were accompanied by voiceover narration explaining his condition, a tip of Schrader's hat to the stomach X-ray opening of Kurosawa's Ikiru (a film, and filmmaker, one doubts Schrader's backers have ever heard of).

Starting with the pros, the opening act is a mini Poe Dameron adventure reminiscent of the prologue of The Force Awakens.

Things kick off with a brief prologue before you find yourself in different - yet - not Willamette shopping mall, the first hub of many open areas you'll visit.

scenarios and unearned jump scares, the picture opens with a nice fairytale prologue and a nifty «12 years ago» introduction that hints at the promise of a murderous Tooth Fairy.

It opens with a prologue, featuring a trio of miniature garden gnomes called the Goons (all voiced by Kelly Asbury), who spend the entirety of the scene arguing over which story about the lawn ornaments they should tell.

by Walter Chaw Director Joe Carnahan replicates a heart attack in the prologue of Narc, and David Von Ancken, in the action - packed opening to his feature debut Seraphim Falls, simulates a mildly hysterical bout of narcolepsy — but more on that later.

In fact, during its opening stage - setting prologue, a card makes clear that the film's depiction of the conversation between Democratic Unionist leader Reverend Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) and Sinn Féin politician Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) that led to a peaceful end in 2006 to Northern Ireland's Troubles conflict is director Nick Hamm and screenwriter Colin Bateman's fanciful imagining of historical record.

The film opens on a quick recap of the big early events of Genesis through the fall of Man, leading into a quick prologue wherein Noah as a young man sees his father murdered by descendants of Cain.

Taking place a couple of years before The Conjuring's 1971, Annabelle opens with some recycled prologue footage before settling on its main focus: a young married couple from Santa Monica, California.

Extras include an alternate opening that recaps the events of The Exorcist through freeze - frames and Burton voiceover — a 2 - minute prologue whipped up for the TV version of the film; teaser and theatrical trailers for Exorcist II: The Heretic; and filmographies for Blair, Burton, Boorman, and screenwriter William Goodhart.

Outcast opens during the Crusades with a prologue that sees Gallain (Cage) and Jacob (Christensen) fighting together and killing in the name of God.

The opening cinematic and prologue gave me a glimpse of the background of the game's female protagonist, Aloy, as well as the world she resides in.

Dawn of the Dead opens gangbusters, its prologue — which segues into a title montage scored just right to Johnny Cash tune — the most nihilistic - feeling bit of cinema I've seen since the first broadcast of The Day After, and right in line with our apocalyptic cinema environment.

It's not really a handicap if you've not seen the first film, as the pertinent details are recounted in a lightning burst of prologue exposition, leading up to how our gormless hero Reiji opens the film dangling naked from a cage full of large sweaty men in towels being airlifted by helicopter across Tokyo.

The prologue, which — even after it's related in the opening scenes — plays out multiple times in a series of flashbacks, has Arthur's father Uther Pendragon (Eric Bana) defeating the evil mage Mordred during a siege on Camelot.

The film opens with the stakes immediately high in a prologue that sees James Kirk (Chris Pine), captain of the starship Enterprise, and «Bones» McCoy (Karl Urban), the ship's chief medical officer, running from some angry aliens through a lushly red forest.

Looking at its gameplay, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain and its prologue, Ground Zeroes capture the spirit of the Metal Gear series despite worries arising from director Hideo Kojima's announcement that the game would be open world.

There's a gruesome edge to it in the opening, a prologue with David Arquette and Sid Haig as cutthroats who run into the savage tribe, and in the final act, where the tribe's sadistic brutality is shocking even this age of cinema violence.

After a sort of «Previously on Harry Potter» prologue and a quietly intense opening, the film plunges into the Gringotts heist and barely pauses for breath.

The film opens with a lucid prologue tracing the roots of America's racial tensions in the continued segregation between inner - cities and suburbs, creating a police state with whites marginalising blacks.

Alvarez opens with a creepy, cunning prologue featuring a decidedly Whedonesque reversal, before settling in for the main affair: This time out, the five victims - to - be are not out in the woods for recreation, but rather to support the effort of one among them (Jane Levy, from TV's Suburgatory) to kick her heroin habit.

Unrated Opening Sequence (6:07)-- Unrated version of the Borneo prologue pulled from an old VHS tape.

It becomes clear, then, that the entirety of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1's opening two - thirds could've easily been condensed into a five minute prologue, with the movie unable to overcome its pervasively worthless feel until well past the one - hour mark - after which point filmmaker Lawrence offers up an admittedly exciting stretch detailing the rebels» SEAL Team Six - like efforts to free several prisoners.

The English language debut of Norwegian writer - director Tommy Wirkola, who got a little bit of notice for his gruesome 2009 zombie Nazi horror comedy Dead Snow, Hansel & Gretel opens with a prologue presenting the fairy tale made famous by the Brothers Grimm.

Molly's Game opens with an absolutely dynamite prologue that introduces us to Molly Bloom on one of the least enjoyable days of her life.

The movie opens with the separate introductions of four magicians, who, at the end of the prologue, come together to form a group called the Four Horsemen.

After a nightmare of a prologue in which the man sees a blood - filled sea (and symbolically loses his hat), the movie opens with Churchill preparing the wording of a speech.

opens with an absolutely dynamite prologue that introduces us to Molly Bloom on one of the least enjoyable days of her life.

For someone like me, unfamiliar with the SpongeBob universe, the movie opens with a beautifully scripted live - action prologue that introduces the pirate Burger Beard as he steals a mysterious book from a booby - trapped island shrine (shades of Raiders of the Lost Ark).

The opening prologue highlights the best part of the Wolfenstein series and why it is always so enjoyable.

In the opening scene of Black Panther — after an animated prologue that features a pocket history of tribal strife, regal succession, the slave trade, and world war — we are transported to Oakland in 1992.

The camera is virtually never still during the opening sequences, which form a present - tense prologue placing the remainder of the film firmly in the realm of memory.

The dash of the new Prologue concept is quite large, flat and open.

The majority is set in London during the 1840s, but the prologue opens even earlier, at a ball on the eve of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo.

While I prefer to do developmental edits on completed manuscripts, I have done partial developmental edits on specific sections of a manuscript such as opening chapters and prologues.

The novel began with a prologue about a hunter, followed by opening chapters from Pru's point of view.

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