Sentences with phrase «other fictional stories»

The writer did not know the physiology of marine life, and created this story, which ended up in your book of other fictional stories.

So does Harry Potter, so does Iron Man, and many other fictional stories, but their use of real events or people does not make them accurate.

Not exact matches

Read it if you're looking for a strange collection of fictional stories that don't make sense, contradict each other, and promote slavery.

On the other hand, if you told that same thousand people to write a fictional short story, you'd get a thousand different stories with virtually nothing in common.

Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

The visual storying telling between the fictional book and the reality are clear, but it's when the two begin to reflect each other metaphorically and physically, that it becomes blurry.

They are very much related and feed into each other as the film addresses the differences between past and present and the fine line between reality and fantasy with one fictional story even serving as a metaphor for another.

Other than that, «Bulletproof» is your standard vulgar, mindless, action - buddy flick, albeit with a love story at its center — something that might have marked the movie as a landmark among the kind of fictional relationships that date back to «Huckleberry Finn,» if it weren't trying so hard to deny its identity.

It is a fictional story loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom, the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey, as well as other outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston and Captain Beefheart.

Stitching together story elements from «A Star is Born,» «Sunset Boulevard,» and others, as well as characters inspired by real - life silent film stars John Gilbert and Charles Chaplin (and others), and recycling music wholesale from later films (most notably, Bernard Hermann's score for «Vertigo»), «The Artist» bears an unmistakable resemblance to Woody Allen's «Zelig,» another nostalgic movie that wove together real - life incidents with fictional recreations.

Colm Tóibín puts this bit of knowledge to use in his short story «Silence», when he has fictional character Lady Gregory share a secret with James as they sit next to each other at a dining table.

One solution is to choose to write about one of the two historical figures, set your story in his or her time period and then create a wholly fictional character patterned on the other figure.

On the other hand, whether creating a character or writing an emotion into a fictional story, Ms Ballon cautions, it is important to be emotionally removed from them.

The story unfolds through the adventures of a young fictional character named William Johnson who is apprenticed first to one, then to the other and not only makes discoveries of historic proportion, but transforms into an inspiring hero only Crichton could have imagined.

The fictional and real children in these stories reach out to others to offer companionship and solace or to share memories of their lost homes and, in doing so, sustain their own optimism.

This book features three short fictional stories of WWII on the American homefront, an angle on the conflict that hasn't received as much attention in our popular culture as other aspects of the war have.

The imaginative practices of Dungeons & Dragons, which allowed a group of players to create dramatic stories around a tabletop using dice to resolve combat and certain tasks, immediately spawned successors — both in fantasy settings like Chaosium's 1978 classic RuneQuest, and in all kinds of other fictional worlds.

Apart from this it could also include references from other games to work on a fictional story.

And when we do it right, that's what elevates games beyond what other fictional mediums can do — it allows us to create stories where people are immersed as active participants as opposed to just a silent audience.»

Other remarkable works include the installation The Unfinished Conversation (2012), a portrait of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall; Peripeteia (2012), a fictional drama on the lives of individuals in two 16th century paintings by Albrecht Dürer, and Mnemosyne (2010), which tells the story of migrants in the UK, questioning the idea of Britain as a promised land, where financial worry and casual racism can instead be real threats.

A problem could arise with biblical literalists, but one could address that by suggesting that some fictional stories have great value in teaching some lesson or illuminating some aspect of the «human (or other sentient being) condition», and also address actual historical events in the translation of the bible — or one could be more abbrassive and ask «do you believe deaf people can't be saved» (see one of Paul's letters, and the history of the Catholic Church)-- oh, you don't — so when you said you were a literalist, you were speaking figuratively?»

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