Sentences with phrase «story scenes which»

The story is very minimalistic as you play through a few story scenes which lasts a few minutes in - between the action parts of the game.

Not exact matches

Unlike the iPhone, which burst onto the scene and quickly began transforming Apple's revenue landscape, the App Store has been more of a sleeper success story.

Such moments, nonetheless, appear» implicit though undramatized» throughout the Old Testament, and the story of Noah has at least two: Noah's own never - expressed response to the Lord's commission, and the late scene when Shem discloses Noah's drunken stupor to his brothers, who engage in a tortuous maneuver to cover their father's nakedness (which only alerts him upon wakening to what has happened).

It argues that an author could portray, for example, a rape scene — even a scene in which a woman enjoys rape — in constructing a story that is ultimately and thoroughly feminist.

It is like a play in which the scene and the general outline of the story is fixed by the author, but certain minor details are left for the actors to improvise.

It has been observed that where we have more than one version of a scene, the different versions generally agree rather closely in the report of what Jesus said, but use more freedom in telling the story which provides the occasion for it.

Symbols and images of this kind cluster thickly in the scenes of the «Christmas story» which in Matthew and Luke is the prelude to their account of the public career of Jesus: visits of angels, prophetic dreams, the marvelous star in the east, the miraculous birth greeted with songs from the heavenly choir, all the appealing incidents so familiar in the appropriate setting of Christmas carol and nativity play.

The fusion of the two ideal figures of Messiah and Servant of the Lord in the historical person of Jesus is dramatically represented in the scene which in all gospels prefaces the story of his public career.

As for specialties in the individual narratives, Matthew alone records the sealing and guarding of the tomb and he alone introduces an earthquake; Luke expands the story of the revelation on the road to Emmaus, which Mark's addition suggests, and introduces the meal of broiled fish partaken of by Jesus to prove the reality of his resuscitation; John alone, at the end of the century, narrates at length the conversation between Jesus and Mary Magdalene and records the scene between Jesus and Thomas and the appearance by the Sea of Galilee.

Back in January, Donald Miller wrote a blog post in which he explained that living a good story means envisioning climactic scenes in your life — reaching the top of Mt. Hood, renewing wedding vows, crossing a finish line, sharing a meal, meeting your sponsored child.

That is why the story comes to have the aspect of a judgement - scene,» in which sentence is passed upon a series of typical figures, not unlike ourselves.

Sometimes the motifs were those of late antiquity, but they were predominantly drawn from the Hebrew scriptures and include such scenes as Daniel in the lion's den; Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego being delivered from the burning fiery furnace; and the story of Jonah, which ends in triumph and which the early church took as a foreshadowing of the death and resurrection of Christ.

The story of continuity also ties to perceptions of impunity — no one in Burundi has thus far been prosecuted for political murder -, to lack of progress on questions of justice and memory, lack of trust in the newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission (which interestingly only appeared on the scene months before the election, in December 2014), and perceptions of corruption, abuse of office, the sense of being «used» by those in authority (people speak of being their «bridge» to other objectives).

He will spend only two days on set, he doestnt care about the length of the story line, he won't allow you to shoot his scenes at night and he decides which actors and actresses you feature in the movie.

Which is ironic, because UnReal is a fictional story based on the behind - the - scenes of a fake reality show that's similar to the Bachelor.

We experimented again with stories, ideas, technical skills and a huge amount behind the scenes last year - which I am guessing is evident, though of course, the backstage stuff always seems like a mystery, I am sure.

The first date sets the scene from which your story will unfold, so it's probably best to avoid old haunts for obvious reasons.

Beatriz's back - story unfolds in between scenes in which she all but recoils, appalled at what these people are celebrating, at their lifestyles and at the amorality of their choices.

Lost Scenes — There are three deleted scenes, all of which are in storyboard format and acted out in a split screen by the story Scenes — There are three deleted scenes, all of which are in storyboard format and acted out in a split screen by the story scenes, all of which are in storyboard format and acted out in a split screen by the story teams.

Most notable were his roles in The Bay Boy — a 1930s coming - of - age story set in Nova Scotia — for which he won a Genie Award in 1984, and the Rob Reiner drama Stand by Me (1986) in which he played a scene - stealing bully.

Director August once had a knack for telling stories of adolescent bonds, and he makes good use of one childhood flashback and a scene in which Bafana and Mandela blend into one person.

Without fail, the dullest installment in any superhero movie franchise is the origin story, during which audiences anxiously awaiting The Big Bad Guy have to suffer through, yaaaawn, scenes of childhood trauma, romantic tragedy, and other expository effluvia, by which point the closing credits are fast approaching.

If the guard is not precisely self - aware, he does make the act of torture (and murder, which becomes a natural extension) into a scene you might recognize, not only from other movies or stories about torturers, damaged souls in need of punishing or saving.

Oh sure, the «estranged dad vs. embittered daughter» material is supposed to be the meat of the meal, which is why we're treated to so many extra scenes of people chit - chatting by firelight, but the dramatic push should come from the kidnapping story, and that chase just gets shoved into the background whenever the characters feel like conversing — yet again.

The opening scene, in which Martha Wayne's necklace shatters, is a perfect example of the director making something that is impractical to the story but no doubt looks «artistic».

The Extras The Franco brothers and screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber join Wiseau and Sestero (appearing via telephone) for an audio commentary, which exists for two main reasons: Wiseau giving the true story about things that happen in the film and Franco pressing Wiseau for more behind - the - scenes information about himself and The Room.

A Royal Affair loses its steam a bit in the final act, as the political shifting behind the scenes doesn't mesh too well with the love story that takes center stage, but it's all part of the required setup that brings us to that explosive climax which is well worth any minor complaints along the way.

Thanks to a layered performance by Franco and director Rupert Goold's willingness to let him play silent moments for maximum tension, «True Story» continually surprises you with scenes in which suspense creeps into casual scenes and makes them something else.

It's a nice backstory and the scenes in which Cranston uses his mind - manipulation powers to make people forget things adds nice layers of gray to the story.

Having never read the book I'm rating it as just a film and it's really a film that starts well then gets predictable then got silly and confusing, The story was not new but it had a different take on it, It wasn't acted very well but it had some good intense scenes that were done well, With a good cast the story should of been told more deeper and we never really know how it all started which was quite annoying, I did like the ending but the scenes before that completely ruined the film as they didn't make sense or were done that well, It's not a bad film it's just poor for what was on offer.

The story of what went on behind the scenes was as interesting as what ended up on the screen — if not more so — as the world learned when Greg Sestero, a star of the film and compatriot of Wiseau, pulled back the curtain in his 2013 book The Disaster Artist, in which he chronicled his life as a friend to Wiseau and the ridiculously lengthy and taxing production of The Room, while also trying to shed some light on the legend of Tommy Wiseau.

A series of disconnected scenes alternating between two story lines, neither of which is cogent or concluded.

But no movie can maintain that kind of momentum, and while the earlier scenes of Hook's frightened negotiation of streets which may harbour saviours or killers maintain a certain tension, the plot loses focus a little when he finds refuge in the flat of a former doctor and his daughter, and the story turns its attention to the political motivations behind the hunt for the fugitive by both the British army and the IRA.

the story was stupid because the situation are unrealistic and do not correspond to past event which create a realistic scene.

Part of the story is fit for a comedy, but this film isn't funny at all, which includes the scenes where it seems like it's trying to be.

Filmmaker Joseph Lovett, himself a gay activist who produced one of the first major investigative stories on AIDS to be broadcast on American television, interviewed a number of men who survived the»70s for his documentary Gay Sex in the»70s, which offers a sometimes witty and sometimes rueful look back at the discos, bathhouses, underground clubs, and gay - friendly resorts which dominated the social and sexual scene of the day, as well as the stories of the men who sought to declare their new identities through sex.

In The Killers (1946), Brown played Nick Adams, who in the Hemingway story on which the film was based was the narrator but who wound up with little more than a bystander part in the film's opening scene.

While Bucky wasn't featured in the primary story of Black Panther, he did surface in a post-credit scene, which opened with a group of Wakandan children huddling around someone in a tent.

The first section in «Behind - the - Scenes» is «Story», in which you can watch the original theatrical trailer for Treasure Island (2:12).

While some scenes can meander, Leigh's process once again yields a compassionate narrative in which subtle glances and asides tell the story as much as the plot itself.

It's a film which does just enough to make you believe that what you're watching is a real, human story, but with every scene, plants the seed of doubt as to whether Elle is some kind of psychic projection or the physical manifestation of a damaged mind.

In one scene, there is a character named Izzy (Page, To Rome with Love) who tries to bring down someone close to her whose company is involved in a major pollution scandal, but these moments don't ring as profound without anything to ground her character, and the way that this story thread evolves feels manufactured, which is evidenced by the lack of genuine emotion when the episode concludes in a traumatic way.

While the subject matter is the stuff that good films are made of, and the quality of the direction and acting are worthy of admiration, where The East fails is in the contrivances involved in the farfetched plotline and the unevenness in the thriller elements (such as a scene in which the cell dresses up to the nines to infiltrate a party for pharmaceutical bigwigs that would feel more at home in a Mission Impossible movie) that undermine what could have been a chilling and realistic story of corporations run amok.

In the hands of a lesser actress, the scenes involving Rampling's character might have seemed faintly superfluous to the story and the climax to that storyline, in which Newman brutally confronts her after discovering who she really is, overtly nasty.

The story arc takes us from Bloom nervously ducking under his first crime - scene tape to happening upon The Big Story, which, like earlier roadside accidents, is calculatingly milked for maximum pastory arc takes us from Bloom nervously ducking under his first crime - scene tape to happening upon The Big Story, which, like earlier roadside accidents, is calculatingly milked for maximum paStory, which, like earlier roadside accidents, is calculatingly milked for maximum payoff.

And there are a couple of effective moments: an early scene, in which we see an advancing «army» (about four men to be honest) of zombies in the WW1 trenches is well done, and it's a shame Halperin didn't concentrate on this aspect of the story — had he done so he would have beaten the first horror movies (to my knowledge) to be set in the Trenches by some sixty years.

Even with scenes cut, the game still focuses heavily on a story of dating a nymphomaniac which is hardly family - friendly material.

For starters, there are well - illustrated comic scenes that help explain the story as you progress which I thoroughly appreciated.

«Now that the cast has their powers, the series can include fight scenes on a more regular basis, which will at least make its incoherent story feel less tepid.»

In the early going, the story alternates between scenes of wayward kids partying and moments in which a friend knocks on Sara's door and blankly informs her that her latest make - out partner has hung himself; by the end, it's just one scene after another of people screaming at each other.