Aside from his accelerated healing factor, Deadpool's most important power is the ability to take the piss out of everyone and everything, even if they don't belong in
the same cinematic world as him.
Not exact matches
Performed by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air players in 1938, The War of the
Worlds, adapted from the H.G. Wells novel of the
same title, proves in retrospect that all the digital
cinematic wizardry in the
world can't trump the powerful simplicity of a solid story and terrific performances.
Overall, Valiant is for the most part charming enough, while never approaching
cinematic excellence that the ambitious design (the country's first CGI film, a
World War II setting, and a low budget) might have suggested and other studios (like Pixar) might have achieved with the
same elements in place.
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE
WORLD, adapted from the graphic novel of the
same name by Bryan Lee O'Malley, redefines the
cinematic linear narrative by frog - marching it straight into the psyche of the post-adolescent zeitgeist.
Nowadays, everyone wants to make a shared
cinematic universe in the
same vein as the
world that Marvel Studios has created for their comic book characters.
Michael Fassbender is leading the charge of «Assassin's Creed» (which will co-star Marion Cotillard), Tom Hardy is doing the
same with «Splinter Cell,» «Kings Of Summer» filmmaker Jordan Vogt - Roberts is attached to «Metal Gear Solid,» and next summer, one of the biggest game adaptations will hit screens with a
cinematic version of «
World Of Warcraft.»
But a decade into a
world full of expanded comic - book
cinematic universes, it's tough to introduce a new hero without hitting the
same standard beats: moment of personal crisis, discovery of incredible powers, assumption of heroic mantle, third - act crisis of faith, climactic battle, and trampoline toward a sequel.
As an indie author, you may not feel entirely comfortable moving from the more cerebral
world of words to the domain of
cinematic stimuli, but the
same techniques that work effectively in a book have an equivalent mode of shorthand expression in a video: empathy, surprise, mystery, atmosphere, danger, character, excitement.