Sentences with phrase «stories as fantasy»

So I would write my stories as fantasy, children's literature, not intended to be taken as factual.

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You've made great stories in history, and the only way to keep those stories alive is to blur the ones between fantasy and reality as you have done so well with in the past.

Lewis, who reportedly wrote the series as part of a deal with J.R.R. Tolkien (who is supposedly to have written a time travel story as his end of the agreement), uses the trilogy to write a fantasy from his own unique perspective.

Of course, we may be wrong to think that we truly remembered those long - lost almost - humans: Perhaps instead they were only speculative imaginings to explain old bones and arrowheads, fossils and mysterious cave paintings — just as our own stories about Neanderthals are also, mostly, fantasies.

If you ever attempt (and a few have) to use any of the stories mention in the bible as a test of scientific theory and then use them in court for defense, by invoking the angel Satan made me do it, or God said so, then who are you to say «He's lying», in short mold the fantasy into your reality.

In Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1975), C. N. Manlove has argued that the use of the supernatural — and I would include magic — is not simply a possibility in the fantasy tale; it is a driving force in the story and takes a central role in the development and shaping of characters as well as plot.

The fantasy story must be significant in its own right and not, as in allegory, always subservient to the interpretation — a situation that casts reins and boundaries upon the imagination.

As much as I love to escape into the encompassing world of a new book or story, I am also ready to jump into the fantasy world of my own lifAs much as I love to escape into the encompassing world of a new book or story, I am also ready to jump into the fantasy world of my own lifas I love to escape into the encompassing world of a new book or story, I am also ready to jump into the fantasy world of my own life.

There is another reason to believe there is some truth to this story as well, because a few weeks back when our Spanish right back was asked to pick his fantasy XI, one of the big surprises was the inclusion of Deeney up front.

Juventus general manager Giuseppe Marotta has dismissed a move for former Liverpool forward Mario Balotelli as a «fantasy story».

As your child creates increasingly complex story lines, her play becomes rich with fantasy — often including good guys versus bad guys.

Such stories have been dismissed as fantasy.

These results fit with several previous studies showing that preschoolers more easily apply knowledge learned from realistic stories to the real world, as opposed to information encountered in fantasy stories.

It's not the plotline of some fantasy epic, but the real story of prehistoric Europe in the years after modern humans conquered the continent — as a new genetic analysis has just revealed.

That raises an intriguing question: Is there truth after all in the many stories from many lands of other humans, extralarge or extrasmall, living in the mountains or the forests, which have been dismissed as myths and fantasies?

The mountain ranges overlooking the Los Angeles basin that cradles the city, and the Pacific Ocean beyond, have served as the settings for cinematic fantasies ranging from Westerns to the classic detective stories of Raymond Chandler.

She writes science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories for adults and children, and is known as a prominent voice for the asexual community.

The network behind Adult Friend Finder is extensive too allowing members to enjoy other sites such as porn sites, live webcams sites and forums in which members can share their stories and fantasies or encounters with other members.

The fantasy doesn't so much comment upon or enlighten Parvana's story — save for general notions of courage — as much as it interrupts it.

In the end, it chooses the wrong path which leads the story to become more preposterous as it goes on as fantasy becomes more the rule than any reality.

Sure it starts out as a bit too much fantasy from the writers, but woah, does one ever get sucked in a story as easily as here.

Not as good as LOTR but a decent fantasy story.

The only praise that I can give the film is that setting most of the story in Gnarnia was a good idea, as being in a fantasy land means that most anything can happen.

It's also a love story that's as marred as those old Western fantasies: an innocent teen (Kodi Smit McPhee) is chaperoned by a shifty outlaw (Michael Fassbender) as he seeks his lost love (Caren Pistorious) in a vicious new continent.

It's not as if fantasy, science - fiction, or detective stories hadn't existed before 1900, but so many of the expectations and conventions that genre fans take for granted today were only created and codified after the turn of the century.

Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchette bring the legendary story of «Robin Hood» to life as only Ridley Scott can and Colin Farrell falls into a love that blurs the line between reality and fantasy in «Ondine» on DVD this week.

The story is standard as far as fantasy RPG plots go: find friends, fight villain, save the day.

Despite its rudimentary story, rarely have I ever felt as connected to a fantasy world's plight than I have with Tethu and his merry band of mishaps — all thanks to the intricate bonds you form with your allies as they level up both behind the counter and in the heat of battle.

An East - meets - West action - fantasy story done up in the style of a B - movie grindhouse flick, «Big Trouble in Little China» stars Russell as Jack Burton, a chauvinistic truck driver who gets caught up in a mystical adventure when he accompanies his friend, Wang Chi (Dennis Dun), on a routine trip to pick up his fiancée at the airport.

It's not as if fantasy, science - fiction, or detective stories...

2016 brought an eerily similar story when director Alex Proyas» $ 140 million fantasy action film Gods of Egypt - starring Gerard Butler (who barely attempted to alter his Scottish accent), Danish Game of Thrones actor Nikolaj Coster - Waldau, and Australian Brenton Thwaites as the three male leads - opened to a domestic weekend of just $ 14 million.

It's an intensely subjective style, and one that has produced the theory that the revenge story is in fact Walker's fantasy as he lays dying.

Rango, a CG - animated project for Paramount starring Johnny Depp as the lead, due for a March 2011 release (also based on a script by Logan); Clue, based on the Hasbro board game (the second time the game has been adapted, Tim Curry starred in the 1985 version); and a story based on an article from the Wall Street Journal «about the online fantasy role - playing world and its debilitating impact on the real lives of players,» according to the trade.

This time he alludes to the art - cinema context much more directly by opening with music from Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim and evoking the form of that film with offscreen narration (delivered by Baumbach himself) recounting the story in past tense and with old - fashioned devices such as irises and wipes and French New Wave devices such as fantasy inserts, fleeting flashbacks, freeze - frames, and jump cuts.

From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.

But then Jackson isn't interested in a faithful interpretation of Tolkien's novel as much as backfilling a prequel story to The Lord of the Rings, transforming the novel's story of legacy and destiny warped into greed and hubris, a grand fantasy adventure with dragons and trolls and Shakespearean dimensions, into the initial stirrings of the evil Sauron and a war that will engulf the world and all the races.

It's a story long overdue from the Disney / Pixar animation giant, and its beautifully done, even as it detours into a bizarre fantasy of magic gone wrong and the Queen transformed into a mama bear.

A bold new action - thriller from director David Ayer (known for such box office hits as Suicide Squad, End of Watch and Training Day), Bright follows the story of two LAPD police officers played by Smith, a human named Officer Ward, and Edgerton, an orc named Officer Jakoby, who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister, fantasy underworld filled with violence and dark forces at work.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficstory of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficStory (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

But as the story progresses it becomes apparent that fantasy and reality are somehow intertwined, and Bastian has begun a parallel quest.

The otherworldly elements in Del Toro's work are always utilized to illustrate underlying truths of humanity, and in the final speech of the night, the filmmaker encouraged kids to embrace genre and fantasy as a mode to «tell stories about the things that are real in the world today.»

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.

Brandon Nowalk reviews Arabian Nights, which he describes as the blind men's elephant: miniseries and short story cycle, documentary and fantasy, proletarian and prohibitive.

As surprising as it is to say this, «Beautiful Creatures» is basically any teen fantasy story but with better characters, a better script, and a story that the audience can get somewhat involved iAs surprising as it is to say this, «Beautiful Creatures» is basically any teen fantasy story but with better characters, a better script, and a story that the audience can get somewhat involved ias it is to say this, «Beautiful Creatures» is basically any teen fantasy story but with better characters, a better script, and a story that the audience can get somewhat involved in.

The story - telling keeps sexually charged as its source material, and while it uses this as a discussion platform for sexual politics and gender as performance fantasy elements wait eagerly in the wings, unseen but felt.

This year's big winner is Guillermo del Toro's fantasy love story The Shape of Water, starring Sally Hawkins as a lonely woman who falls in love with a fish creature at a secret lab (read my review).

While the director tags along with Foley and his compatriots on a few desert - mountain excursions, one of which results in a bland confrontation with border - smuggling mules, these sequences add little other - side - of - the - story context to Cartel Land, mainly because Foley comes across as little more than an anti-government extremist infatuated with fantasies of defending his beleaguered nation from invading hordes.

I don't mean the fantasy of the museums coming alive: I mean the narrative contortions they painfully attempt in order to get Stiller's Larry Daley back into the story, and in order to get some of the more beloved exhibits — such as Owen Wilson (Marley & Me, The Darjeeling Limited) and Steve Coogan's (Tropic Thunder, Hamlet 2) miniature warriors — from New York to DC so they can be part of the new action.

There's also an obvious fantasy element to the story that, although it reportedly isn't as strong as the stuff in the book, could make this a lot more interesting than it looks.

What's interesting as you work backwards through films we've made about traveling to Mars is: the further back in time you go (and therefore, the less scientific knowledge about the planet with which the filmmakers would have been working), the more Mars ceases to be a cold, inhospitable ball of red mud and becomes a brash, romantic fantasy world onto which stories more and more achingly mythic can be grafted.