Sentences with phrase «short story character»

Writer Edgar Allan Poe's short story character «Hop Frog» was, in the classic film Masque of the Red Death, renamed Hop - Toad.

Burnett urges Salinger to turn a short story character, Holden Caulfield, into a novel, but he has trouble with it.

Not exact matches

OK, prepare to suspend your disbelief: The mystery - adventure drama is based loosely on Washington Irving's 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and follows the character of Ichabod Crane, who has woken up after sleeping for 250 years and is now partnered with police Lt. Abbie Mills in modern day Sleepy Hollow, N.Y..

Because the more novels and short stories I read, and the more times I feel an unspeakable connection to imaginary characters and their stories, the more convinced I become that every story is, in some mysterious way, my very own.

Jean Paul Sartre's character Pablo Ibbieta, in the short story «The Wall,» would have no dramatic impact, and the story would never have been written, because persons in Ibbieta's position would invariably have learned from God that the Ramon Grises of this world had moved back to whatever was the analogue for them of the gravedigger s shack.

Because Kirk believ ed that such an understanding was best apprehended and transmitted through imaginative literature, it is only right that his short stories and fiction best enable one to appreciate the character of his insight into the human predicament.

There are even two short stories — Ruth and Esther — which satisfy the criteria of the new criticism, their characters and plot developed and brought to a climax and denouement within a few chapters.

A narrative form of analogy frequently found in religious teachings is the parable, a short fictional story whose characters are taken from everyday life.

we are a football club first and a business second... or should be... this is how all dictatorships end... the colonel of the EPL lost his marbles 5 seasons ago on my estimate... he has become a character from a gabriel garcia marquez short story... or is that just some teenage midfield prodigy he is trying to bring in from the Mexican third division...

There are short stories, introductions to characters and even music videos.

In short: pop culture almost always depicts nursing a child (older than a very small infant, anyway) as a short - handed way to reveal something about a character or story beyond that character simply breastfeeding.

Pirx Crater is named for the main character in a series of short stories by Stanislaw Lem, who travels between the Earth, Moon and Mars.

For instance, several of the novellas and short stories were told from the point of view of secondary characters (most notably, Kiernan, but also Saul and his henchman Simon), giving the reader a glimpse into their lives separate from Kate.

Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the film at the festival, we know this is not true).

The story and characters in «The Incredible Mr. Limpet» seem like a good fit for a fifteen or twenty - minute short feature.

That said, the story is somewhat interesting (when I wasn't asleep, my girlfriend kept trying to explain it to me), but the characters fall short of being interesting or even remotely salvageable in character.

The game is pretty pale, its only good thing are the superficial presentation because it is good looking on the surface but falls short when you realise that the physics are zero to none, the character is too generic, lacks charm, cliché story.

Frances McDormand takes the difficult title character from Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer - winning collection of short stories out for a slightly different spin, but the result is less a challenge to Strout's vision than a broadening of it.

The combat system is fast and sharp, but also repetitive, and because there is so little in terms of story and characters, there are few reasons to replay the game once the short adventure is over.

Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 is not the best game in this series of fighters, graphically it's good for a Wii game, the sound is good, the voice acting is great, the controls are ok, there is a large number of characters to play as which is great and even some game exclusive characters, multiplayer is ok, the story mode introduces an new and unique story with some interesting characters but kind of falls short, and the difficulty can be down right frustrating at times, there is some good versus modes and a fun survival mode, all in all i would only recommend this to Naruto fans, and people who love fighting games.

Instead of giving us a lengthy story of a great character (Fetch) Sucker Punch offers an interesting albeit short campaign, packed with a bland and boring arena mode.

Originally created in the 1930s by short - lived author Robert Howard, the character of Conan the Barbarian has seen a number of incarnations over the years, including an upcoming filmed re-adaptation of Howard's original stories.

Is it alright to cut the other characters» stories short so long as Vanessa's receives closure?

A few unexpected minor pleasures: the time - travel flick Predestination, an adaptation of a Robert A. Heinlein short story that's one of those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minute.

Garson and Pidgeon reprised their roles in the 1950 sequel, «The Miniver Story,» and Maureen O'Hara and Leo Genn took over the characters in the short - lived, 1960 CBS TV series.

Rise of the Argonauts tells a great story with interesting characters, but fails to utilize Greek mythology well enough to reach its full potential, falling short as both an action game and an RPG.

Adapting a short - story collection by James Franco, Coppola preserves the episodic structure of the book, allowing her camera to move among the characters with a breezy sense of freedom: April (Emma Roberts), the intelligent yet vulnerable good - girl lured into an affair with her charismatic but creepy soccer coach, Mr. B. (played by Franco); Teddy (Jack Kilmer) who's in trouble with the law and in love with April; Fred (Nat Wolffe), Teddy's cocky, bad - influence sidekick; and Emily (Zoe Levin), the profoundly sad school slut who freely dispenses blow jobs in place of genuine connection.

«Split into chapters, replicating short stories, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is top - tier Noah Baumbach and it's really beautiful to see Sandler giving it his all and crafting such a warmhearted but damaged character,» we wrote in our review of the movie when it premiered at Cannes this year, «while Stiller — a Baumbach regular — is very funny as the youngest Meyerowitz, doing his best to distance himself from his father and siblings, but realising home is where the heart is.stories, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is top - tier Noah Baumbach and it's really beautiful to see Sandler giving it his all and crafting such a warmhearted but damaged character,» we wrote in our review of the movie when it premiered at Cannes this year, «while Stiller — a Baumbach regular — is very funny as the youngest Meyerowitz, doing his best to distance himself from his father and siblings, but realising home is where the heart is.Stories (New and Selected) is top - tier Noah Baumbach and it's really beautiful to see Sandler giving it his all and crafting such a warmhearted but damaged character,» we wrote in our review of the movie when it premiered at Cannes this year, «while Stiller — a Baumbach regular — is very funny as the youngest Meyerowitz, doing his best to distance himself from his father and siblings, but realising home is where the heart is.»

His desperation to smooth the choppiness of the story and format is palpable in the short - selling of the Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) character (and Aragorn's horse who, without much in - text warning, becomes a key character) and the desire to infuse heterosexual romance (with both Arwen and Miranda Otto's Eowyn) into Tolkien's sexually sterile universe.

Shot in black - and - white, with a spare, minimal production design making it an expressionist piece projecting the barren interiors of its broken characters, Nebraska, though not the adaptation of the identically - named collection of Ron Hansen short stories I initially hoped it was, at least possesses the same wintry, intellectual mien.

While Insidious: Chapter 3 is short on story and character development, it turns out to be quite long on jump scares.

Ellery Queen Mysteries (E1)-- Ellery Queen is both the pseudonymous author of and the main character in the scores of novels and short stories that made him the most well - known detective in American fiction.

The rest of the film is made up of short vignettes that take us through 1950s Hollywood, introducing a lovable set of characters that roughly blend into the main story.

The movie feels less like a cash grab than a thoughtful continuation of Dory's personal journey, staying true to what makes the character unique (her short - term memory loss) without being hampered by its limitations, all while finding creative ways to progress the story and further develop Dory as a character.

Sure, star Taylor Kitsch comes up short whenever he has to bring a little gravitas to the story of war and romance, but he's charismatic in the many light - hearted moments, and from Stanton's years at Pixar (where he helmed Finding Nemo and Wall - E), he's learned how to build stories and characters carefully, and to fill the screen with images that delight the eye.

It was like picking up a book with a cover showing all of your favorite characters, only to discover it was just a short story anthology.

With 14 supporting roles on screen for the most part it could have easily fallen short, factors of how much screen time to give each character without allowing them feel too intrusive on the story or the flip side, falling out the story.

Although the trailer (and the film's new title) focuses on a theft of this cash, Lehane's original short story is about Hardy's character, Bob, finding an injured pit bull puppy in the trash and resolving to take care of it and protect it from its abusive former owner.

But with its theme of a character realizing that all isn't what it seems like in his perfect little world reminded me most of Dark City (although it is an entirely different movie altogether) and some science fiction short stories.

Director Gracey, choreographer Ashley Wallen, songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (of «La - La Land») and cinematographer Seamus McGarvey («Atonement,» «The Avengers») think about each number as a self - contained short film, with its own «story» and little marks that the major characters have to hit in order to progress.

Also ported over are features on the history and development of «Tarzan,» among them segments on the Deep Canvas Process, Production Progression Demonstration, three publicity trailers, From Burroughs to Disney, an Early Presentation Reel, a short feature on the Research Trip to Uganda, six segments on creating The Characters of Tarzan, a three - minute bit on The Making of the Music, Building the Story and Storyboard to Film featurettes, 10 minutes of deleted and alternate scenes, and a couple tidbits on the international / intercontinental aspects of «Tarzan.»

Of course, that doesn't excuse the fact that «On Stranger Tides» has just as many problems as the last two films, because while it may be the shortest movie in the series, it still feels overly long at 137 minutes and packed with subplots and secondary characters that aren't really necessary to the story.

In another standout track, Small Fry's writer / director MacLane shares his influences (a day of fast food research in Portland, working in a ball pit) and the stories behind all of the short's characters, i.e. the fictitious movies and TV shows where Neptuna and others come from (more thought went into that than you might have guessed).

What plot there is centres on Brooke's efforts to launch a restaurant - community centre - store called Mom's and Tracy's clandestine use of Brooke as a character in a short story, but for the first half at least we just hang out with the two girls as Tracy comes under the thrall of Brooke.

Unfortunately, like many other origin stories that've been crafted for famous literary characters in the past (one recent movie example being Pan), Victor Frankenstein falls short at offering fresh insight on its namesake and / or showing the Frankenstein mythology's themes and ideas in a creative, new light.

The film also takes shots at celebrity / fame culture, but pushing aside the earlier predatory male character in favor of a «women eat each other alive, but literally» story makes it fall short for me.

Although the film is short at 86 minutes, even that seems too long — there is fully half - an - hour of scene - setting during which the story makes no progress before the two main characters find themselves on the island, and once they arrive there significant chunks of the time is filled with their rolling in the sand or with musical numbers designed to let Madonna strut her stuff.

Cahill falls short in this regard, beating the spirituality vs. pragmatism drum too loudly stretching the one - dimensional characters so thin you begin to wonder where the story is going with all the scientific jibber - jabber and rudimentary existential debates.

The series, with the exception of the final two episodes, functioned as narratively complete short stories with a definite Zane Grey - cum - Edgar Rice Burroughs - cum - Philip K. Dick feeling (pulp as masticated by an apocalyptic culture, the only one that has experienced an atomic weapon attack)-- building as it progressed a bebop quintet of characters with hero Spike, mentor Jet, buxom femme Faye, spirit guide Ed, and animal sidekick Ein.

The initial character stories are nice, offering an opportunity to adjust to new characters with a bit of light - hearted backstory in preparation for the cinematic story experience launching in June — though the stories in the game are actually very short, lasting between three to five fights each.