Sentences with phrase «serve as a plot device»

Nothing is more boring than cardboard characters that just serve as plot devices.

«For every author who meticulously examines the latest developments in physics or computing, there are other authors who invent «impossible» technology to serve as a plot device (like Le Guin's faster - than - light communicator, the ansible) or to enable social commentary, the way H. G. Wells uses his time machine to take the reader to the far future to witness the calamitous destiny of the human race.»

Sometimes in these types of games, females characters are either secondary, unimportant in the grand scheme of the narrative, overly sexualized, or merely serve as a plot device to galvanize and progress the main male character's actions or motivations.

Not exact matches

Some entertaining performances came out of it, but ultimately, putting a belt around a part - timer hijacks much more worthwhile angles, important plot development, talent development, and a key plot device that would serve as a facilitator to the aforementioned.

Actually she serves for Bertolucci more as a plot device than as a person.

It doesn't help that Ms. Janney's character is the least developed in the movie; though her back story is briefly sketched in, she serves mainly as a plot device in what is ultimately a film about masculinity and its discontents.

Thankfully, the love story is not the driving force of the movie (more of a plot device) unlike so many other movies (e.g., «Titanic» where telling the story of the sinking ship served as the backdrop for the love story between the two main characters).

Skyward Sword, which serves as the prequel to the entire Zelda timeline, has Link pursuing Zelda after a tornado whisks her away from Skyloft, but we do see her being trained by Impa and establish that she is the reborn spirit of the goddess Hylia before she ends up sealed in a crystal and reduced to plot device for the rest of the story.

But now the Assassin's Creed franchise has shifted away from the intriguing contemporary science fiction plot — with revisionist history serving as both a backdrop and a foil — and onto an out of control metanarrative using «the real world» as the barest of framing devices.

Any other facial tattoo would have worked as well to serve the plot device.»