Sentences with phrase «story feels modern»

The story feels modern rather than nostalgic.

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Nonetheless it is remarkable to find these ancient authors employing all the modern devices of the literary craftsman, surprise and suspense, rapidity and delay, humor and solemnity, vividness, realism, untempered callousness, dramatic shift of scene — all permeated with their feeling for what is intrinsically interesting, what makes a good story.
That is the typical modern - minded attitude, and you are in good Christian company if you feel the same way about some miracle stories in the Bible.
No this answer just has too much of a modern feel to it and I know that the stories of political meddling goes back at least to the times of the greek city states.
In the end, I feel that Sadiq's story reflects modern London.
This format felt like a modern way to tell my story that fit the topic, and allowed readers to develop an intimate relationship with the characters along the way.
This film however, may have had the modern noir feeling, but actually had the old noir story line AKA slow, strange, and confusing.
It is hard sometimes to shake the feeling that this live - action Disney adaptation is relying too much on the 1991 animation, to the point that it almost feels like an extended version of that film; but even so, it offers a fresh and modern look at the classic story that makes it worth it.
If you like shooting terrorists but felt the story and campaign of Modern Warfare 2 was too darn stupid, this is the game for you.
To me, it really just felt like an old school Amblin sports movie, I would even maybe say it's Karate Kid of 2011, meaning it's our futuristic, modern take on that kind of story, those themes, in this day and age.
• Most scenes in modern blockbusters — superhero movies, comic book stories, FX - driven tentpoles, etc. — feel both perfunctory and dead on arrival.
Four modern women: Alice (America goddess), Lisa (Office Lady), Liyuan (beautiful housewife), Wenwen (hate married women Cock wire) to withstand the pressure of urban life, the feelings do not go well, everyone has their own depression, four due to heavy drinker and leads to some hilarious story of the encounter.
Even if the story is derivative, much of that old detective feel has been excised for a more modern approach in the movie adaptation, leaving it virtually indistinguishable from many other films in current release.
Dobkin, who directed Wedding Crashers and The Change - Up, will direct the film that is an action - oriented take on the classic Arthurian story, with a modern feel.
The story is simple, basically a modern telling of the «Dumb Waiter» the Harold Pinter play that I enjoyed but always felt needed one final act to truly impress.
It updates the story to the modern age, transports the setting from big city suburbia to the desert - based developments outside of Las Vegas, and shakes the narrative structuring up to avoid that lived - in feel.
Cheap Thrills feels like a modern day descendant of the story, but bloodier and more twisted.
The special is an all - new retelling of Buddy's delightfully absurd yet heartwarming story and blends the look and feel of the stop - motion animated Christmas specials of the past with the sharp sensibility of the modern - day classic holiday film.
The Spectacular Now is a coming - of - age story in the vein of John Hughes, set in modern - day Athens, Georgia, yet it feels timeless.
And a group of modern viewers keen on the alienating dark side of tech paranoia and its drastic, often damaging, fallout as depicted on Black Mirror might take, for example, the first story in the anthology, «Real Life» (directed by Ronald D. Moore of Battlestar Galactica and Outlander), and feel a little underwhelmed when it concludes.
A reboot of the 1974 kids classic, this modern take on the story of a lovable, homeless pooch named Benji updates the environment for 2018 but retains the original's sense of adventure and, thankfully, feel - good warmth.
Visually, it feels like a modern day manga reimagined as a teenaged girl's superhero story and everything melds together beautifully.
This movie musical transplanted the story of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to then modern - day New York City and includes memorable songs like «Maria,» «America,» and «I Feel Pretty.»
I feel like there is a sense of freedom in my storytelling because I can write modern stories and native protagonists without any restrictions.
THE ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB PICKED UP TO SERIES; 10 - EPISODE ORDER (PUSHED TO MIDSEASON 2015) STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Josh Schwartz (ep), Stephanie Savage (ep), Michael London (ep), Len Goldstein (ep), Nick Cassavetes LOGLINE: Set in the 1960s with a modern feel, it tells the real story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history during the height of the space race.
Despite the arrival on the scene of an actual exorcist, the story, shot with an austere, nearly - monochromatic colour palette, feels more like an addiction narrative than the modern Satanic - possession thrillers it's also modeled on, and Green remains marvellous in the performance.
As we launch Dark Universe with Danny's provocative theme before The Mummy and collaborate with a brilliant filmmaker like Bill to weave the story of a very modern woman in a very classic tale, we feel confident we're off to a tremendous start.»
The story feels like a modern update of films like Night of the Hunter and Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and the direction is like a cross of John Carpenter and Nicolas Winding Refn.
Everyone's Going To Die is a modern British story about coming home, getting by and the redemptive power of feeling you're not alone.
The strongest stories are felt to be those that are set in the modern day.
It is the familiar story of a modern woman wanting it all — career, marriage, family — but Hinojosa injects it with new life; she writes the way women talk to each other, words tumbling out, backtracking, laughing, and always full of deeply felt emotion.
Despite its early middle ages setting (around the middle 500s), the story and characters felt modern.
A heartbreaking story of family and marriage, a meditation on the unseen forces of nature and desire, The Unnamed is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human connection.
At first Amanda's story seems somewhat superfluous to the whole but her role comes clear as the novel progresses because it is through her that we see that the feelings of dislocation and generational alienation felt by the Inuit are not unique to them but a facet of modern life - except that the effect is obviously more extreme in a culture that has gone from hunter - gatherer to the internet in one generation.
This two story spacious luxury villa (350 m2 living area) has recently been redesigned by the renowned Javanese designer Hidajat and combines modern Asian, Balinese and Javanese and so - called primitive East - Indonesian Island interior design to give you 5 star exclusive feel in all its simplicity.
Darkestville Castle is a prime example of this, a point and click title that has the witty dialogue, fun puzzles and mad stories complete with modern graphics, but that doesn't ultimately feel any different from something like Monkey Island released all those years ago.
- Iizuka has received a ton of requests from fans to have their own original characters appear in Sonic games - while that couldn't happen, Sonic Forces» custom character recognizes that fan desire - the avatar was created with the idea of «making straight high - speed action» - this time the concept is that all three styles (Modern, Classic, Avatar) would be high - speed based - make selections for the face, mouth, body color, and gender of custom characters - each species will also have their own unique skills, such as wolves being able to pull nearby rings - you can't change custom characters in the middle of the game - there is some sort of feature that's unlocked after you've cleared the game once related to this - the new avatar style will have a speedy and rhythmic style like Modern Sonic, but also different vectors from Sonic - this includes differences in timing for pressing buttons, or the Wisps giving the avatar trickier movements - the story aims to depict heroes that would feel like Sonic - by controlling different characters, the devs hope to show a story that extends to explaining the world setting as well - the story concept has been «Hero Army vs. Eggman's Army» from the start - when wondering who should be made playable among the heroes, the idea came up for Classic Sonic - the character setting for the avatar is a civilian in an area occupied by Eggman who stands up and fights together with Sonic - during stages, you'll hear radio contact from partners like Tails and Amy - Sonic and the rest of the gang form a resistance to stand against Eggman's army, so they relay information from headquarters - boss characters like Chaos and Metal Sonic will appear in Eggman's army - details on the new character (Infinite) are being kept secret - the main part of the storyline is that Eggman gathers strong enemies in the past to form an all mighty army - some people might be wondering why Shadow is on the enemy's side, but they can find out more by experiencing the story - the team thinks Japanese fans are taking a liking to the serious story and character customization features - there were some struggles with the new engine in early stages, but now they've moved to a smooth development process - the team knew they wanted to bring the game to Nintendo's new console before they even knew it was the Switch - the Switch info came to them during the middle of the game's development - SEGA knew Nintendo fans would want to play Sonic's new game, which is why they personally worked to bring it to Switch - SEGA plans to show the game in Japan at Tokyo Game Show 2017 in September - the team is also working on providing new information, including news that would be unique to Japan
I love that classic arcade feel, and I understand the notion of playing a game for its own sake, or getting a high score; I don't need a compelling story or modern trappings to find joy.
Instead you are left feeling like this tacked on story was there simply to make the game feel more modern.
Rean, Alisa, Elliot, Laura, Machias, Jusis, Emma, Fie, and Gaius is undeniably one of the strongest main cast of characters to exist in a modern video game, and it definitely helped to suck me into the story and feel an emotional connection with every single one of them every time something major or minor would happen in the narrative.
Far Cry 5 being set in modern day America gives the story a creepy feel to it, being able to happen at any moment.
It is in Jesper Kyd's score, in the modern day sections with their introductions of Shaun and Rebecca, in the sense of mystery over the series» whole story and the impending threat faced, in the tough Assassin's tomb challenges... all of this makes AC2 feel as good as any Assassin's Creed has ever been.
So the real reason this IP needs to go away is not because I feel like everyone is tired of its» story or anything; it's because the FF department of Square Enix desperately needs to refuel creatively and see where most modern role playing gamers are at the moment.
The story itself — without any spoilers — is... good, but very much clichéd and feels stale in comparison to modern episodic adventure games.
While I can't promise finishing all three games with a review schedule which includes Skyrim, Modern Warfare 3, and Cave Story 3D, I probably won't feel like an actualized gamer until I put in a full tour with the FOXHOUND team.
Unlike the pair of Marsden Hartley canvases that greet you as the elevator doors open on the gloriously sunlit eighth floor, «Painting, Number 5» (1914 - 1915) and «Forms Abstracted» (1913), whose bright colors and crisp forms feel like a clarion call for the Modern Age, the story of the seventh floor begins with a chapter called «The Circus,» after Alexander Calder's fanciful diorama of 1926 - 31.
, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 2013 The Living, Kunstverein München e.V., Munich 2012 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Ghent, Belgium 2011 Come Helga, This Is No Place For Us II, Maureen Paley, London 2010 The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago 2009 Feelings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue) 2007 Large Concretised Monument to the Twentieth Century, Chiswick Business Park, London (Permanent installation) Come Helga, This Is No Place For Us, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 2005 Zoo Story: An exhibition of animals in art — for the young and young at heart, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York Pas de Deux, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne 2004 Dark Passage, Kunsthalle Zürich (catalogue) Family Badge, Antiquariat Buchholz, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne 2003 Donald Young Gallery, Chicago The Boiler Room, The Saatchi Gallery, London SHE, Maureen Paley, London 2002 Fleischvater, Modern Art, London 2000 The Agony and the Ecstasy, Maureen Paley, London 1995 Manliness without Ostentation..., the Agency, London 1993 I Have Every Vice in the World, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford Selected Group Exhibitions: 2018 Anna Fasshauer Michail Pirgelis Rebecca Warren, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Germany Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings, Tate St Ives, UK.
In the first major exhibition of his work in the UK for 35 years and the first retrospective of the artist since his death in 2008, Tate Modern celebrates his extraordinary six - decade career, showcasing major international loans that rarely travel and telling the story of a remarkable artist whose influence is still felt today.
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