Sentences with phrase «opening scene establishes»

A marvelous opening scene establishes the frantic pace maintained by the film's posh partyers.

The film's opening scenes establish that he's welshed on many debts and unlikely to hit a big payday with any of the third - rate tin cans he puts into the ring.

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Characters now established, onto the opening scene.

After a lyrical introduction that layers wistfully reflective voiceover over a spun - sugar cloudscape, the film's opening stages are less concerned with setting a scene than they are with establishing a vivid and unshakable sense of trauma — zeroing in on isolated images of slaughter, human and otherwise, in disorienting darkness.

The film opens with the obligatory but mercifully brief happy family scenes where Pitt's character, Gerry Lane, is established as a stay - at - home Philadelphia dad who doesn't seem to do anything more strenuous than make pancakes for breakfast.

Soundtracked to the trembling, ethereal echo of a classical women's choir, the opening scenes swiftly establish the peaceful, slightly alienated conservatism of life on the British island of Jersey — the director's own home territory, and duly evoked with expansive, non-touristic sweep by cinematographer Benjamin Kračun in sharp strokes of seagrass hue.

There is a mystery at the heart of the movie — it's established in the opening scenes, when we see Orlando visiting a sauna and then puzzling over some missing paperwork — but no crime, other than that of being a sexual minority in an intolerant time and place.

But there's not a lot of suspense about where the movie might go, even for the uninitiated, because the out - of - order opening scene blatantly establishes that Wimbledon will come down to these two contenders (lest one fear they have to pay any attention to any of the matches leading up to the finals).

The Silence of the Lambs opened up the Best Picture categories genre requirements, Miramax established itself as a major player on the indie scene with Best Picture squarely in its sights, and Steven Spielberg went from being official Oscar bridesmaid to one of its all - time favorites.

The Shape of Water establishes that it's taking place in a surreally magical version of our world (circa 1962) from the opening scene of its heroine, Elisa Esposito, floating in an aquatic dream.

Apart from the opening scene, which incorporates special effects to help create a massive dry dock that serves as a prison (the prisoners hauling a ship into it with lines as thick as tree trunks), and a few brief establishing shots, which include dramatic rises and falls of the camera through space and time as each new stage of the story begins, Les Misérables keeps us in close — sometimes very close — proximity to the actors.

This opening is the most eloquent and lucid scene in the film, for it establishes that director Jess Franco no longer has a responsibility to be eloquent and lucid.

In the opening scene, an impressive twenty minute long - take, Marqués - Marcet establishes the comfortable rhythms and routines that couple Alex and Sergi (Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer, who won a special jury prize for their performances) have carved out in their small Barcelona flat.

From the opening scenes, Reed establishes a tension: strangers ominously eye their movements through the airport and a young boy on a bicycle, an otherwise unobtrusive figure of innocence playing in the streets, tails their taxi and makes lazy figure - eights outside their home, a lone building jutting out of the rubble and ruins of their sector of the city.

Mostly unrelated to the central story, this opening scene teases viewers into the narrative while establishing tone.

The ultra-stilted, aggressively flirtatious opening scene between Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams immediately establishes that we're in a world as far removed from nuanced realism as possible, which makes sense given the cutthroat - corporate - advertising milieu in which the film takes place.

The opening credits and scene establish the tone for the rest of the film.

From its opening scene, The Golden Circle throws us immediately into a meticulously choreographed action setpiece, with Eggsy (Taron Egerton), now an established Kingsman agent, fighting his former Kingsman colleague Charlie (Edward Holcroft) in a speeding taxi through the streets of London.

From the opening scenes, an irresistible glow is established.

This opening scenes quickly establish the tone of the film as a whole — mixing sadness and comedy to approximate something like life itself.

As Lady Bird's mother, Laurie Metcalf is alternately ferocious and loving, a dynamic established during the film's shocking opening scene: After finishing a book on tape in the car, mother and daughter switch instantly to screaming at each other, prompting Lady Bird to open the car door and roll out.

These opening scenes, in no rush to get to the meat of the story, establish a world that's wholly authentic in its fluorescent flickers and khaki sporting reporters.

Those who haven't been keeping up with the Cosmic Cubes and Rainbow Bridges of the Marvel Universe might be scratching their heads for a few minutes during a rushed opening scene that establishes what passes for the plot of the film, but things are quickly and neatly explained.

The film opens with Lady Bird and her mother (Laurie Metcalf) on their drive home from a college trip, and their complicated relationship is quickly established in this scene.

In these dialogue - free opening scenes, set to a score that buzzes like a plague of locusts, There Will Be Blood establishes itself as a film of Darwinian ferocity, a stark and pitiless parable of American capitalism.

Ayer establishes Wardaddy's coldblooded instincts in a shocking opening scene where the America soldier rises from a corpse - covered German battlefield to ambush a German soldier riding on a white horse.

The opening cinematic immediately establishes this as he waxes poetic over the grace and power of the militia's undeniably badass titan pilots even as we are treated to a series of horrifying scenes of staggering violence emblematic of man's inhumanity to his fellow man in wartime.

After about a five - minute opening cut - scene showing off the kind of people and landscape the game takes place in they show a bit more with a hurried blessing - baby naming - ritual, again establishing the primitive take on how religion and beliefs run a society, the story skips a few years and you start the game off as a six - year - old Aloy.

You must establish your reputation in the underground racing scene and subvert their activities city - by - city throughout a fully - open world

You must establish your reputation in the underground racing scene and subvert their activities city - by - city throughout a fully - open world United States.

Established Hamptons Artist Anne Raymond opens her East Hampton Studio to present a behind - the - scenes look at the monotype process and the making of contemporary abstract paintings.

To mark the opening of this final scene, Nairy Baghramian has invited the art and film historian Manfred Hermes to present a lecture linking the two parallel exhibitions at the Museum Abteiberg, thereby establishing a connection between the films of Sigmar Polke and OPEN DRESS.

First Cut also refers to the part of the process in film editing that establishes the structure and flow of a narrative, where the scenes are roughly organized though open to change.

After the established galleries I needed a geographic and spiritual change of scene, so it was off to Time & Space gallery in Sai Ying Pun for the opening of Sole to Soul, an exhibition by New York - based artist August Krogan - Roley.

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