Sentences with phrase «story tropes»

The influence of Saturday morning anime doesn't stop with story tropes.

Taking more from the story tropes of D&D than its gameplay, it tends to focus more on storytelling than player decision - making.

All of these are familiar story tropes in video games and beyond.

Cross Manage is a sports manga, its terribly utilitarian title referring to its hero, the reluctant manager of a high school girls» lacrosse team; it's the only series of its type in the digital Weekly Shonen Jump, and it doesn't stray too far from the most typical story tropes, often pausing the action to educate the readers on the rules and strategies inherent to the game being played.

In 2015 indie developer SWDTech successfully got funding for Pixel Noir, a pixel - art filled adventure that fuses detective story tropes with JRPG gameplay.

The term «Oscar bait» gets thrown around a lot during awards season, but historically there's a lot more to Oscar campaigning than story tropes.

The movie also both plays homage to, and parodies, many martial arts and action movie story tropes.

Along the way, we go through every terrible origin - story trope, including the sacrificial family member, the love interest who - can - look - after - herself - but - not - really, the hero being told how special he is, the cartoony but bland villains, etc..

Comparatively, Daley and Goldstein attempt to stretch a Frankenstein stitch of gags over the standard framework of a «conflicted family bonds together» story trope.

Not exact matches

At its center, Habibi is a love story, but the trope transcends sexual attraction.

For example, Buffy the Vampire Slayer dies and comes back from the dead not once but twice, and this heroine's story touches upon the same trope and informs the same moral intuitions and moral imagination in us.

Unless vivid tropes and a memorable script present Wiltshire's story, it can not become good news to members now secluded in their separate egos.

, which deconstructed horror tropes and told a profound story about racial appropriation, to the point where debates are still raging over which genre it best represents.

A common trope is given new life with «The Cook's Atelier,» a beautiful cookbook inspired by the story of a mother - daughter pair who dropp...

A common trope is given new life with «The Cook's Atelier,» a beautiful cookbook inspired by the story of a...

A lot of these birth stories have enough NCB tropes that it's easy to see that the woman bought into an existing belief system.

Driven largely by instinct and a cult of personality, the company's one - time dream team of «merchant prince» Mickey Drexler and «geek chic» creative director Jenna Lyons transformed the sleepy American catalogue business into a retail success story and cultural phenomenon, widely loved for its tongue - in - cheek take on classic, preppy tropes and famously embraced by former US first lady Michelle Obama.

She went on to name check the 1970 film Love Story, explaining the tartan and tweed looks, plus the boiled wool and synthetic leather coats, as experiments in collegiate campus girl tropes.

This trope, which happens a lot in the less idealistic revenge stories (insofar as revenge stories

Bowed down with the weight of the past, rushing through their stories to solemnly validate that heritage, they rob us of the moments in the present when those same old reliable tropes can kindle once again.

Unlike many lesser directors would have in his shoes, Jonathon Glazer keeps strictly with the alien's perspective, a decision which seems initially crude and even potentially sadistic and yet as the story (or lack thereof) evolves one can not help but recognize a series of uncomfortable tropes in human behaviour that for better or worse might define us as a species, under the gaze of an alien fly - on - the - wall.

The storyline - which follows alcoholic superhero John Hancock (Smith) as he reluctantly allows a struggling public - relations expert (Jason Bateman's Ray) to mold him into a traditionally heroic figure - has essentially been crafted to act as an origin story for the central character, yet screenwriters Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan brilliantly ensure that Hancock rarely apes the conventions and tropes that one has come to expect with such a tale (ie one doesn't entirely realize that they're watching an origin story until everything's been said and done).

The story itself is hard to recall, in large part because it was one of the least impressive aspects of a production that was more interested in offering a Mad Magazine - type superhero movie than meekly regurgitating the genre's tropes.

But part of the fun of both Westerns and pulp revenge stories is setting up the tropes to play with them later, so Wynonna Earp could just be getting a few things out of the way before the shenanigans really get started.

It's easy to forget, as I stated in my review, how well - written the first Shrek was, both as a deconstruction of Disney tropes and a genuinely insightful love story.

I suppose this relatively light historical piece is far from generic, but its subject matters makes for a familiar story concept, whose interpretation is also trope - heavy, with some refreshing elements that may very well have been underexplored for a reason.

The story is full of exhausted tropes and needless obfuscations.

Her feature - length debut, 2013's «It Felt Like Love,» focused on the bumpy trajectory of an introverted teenage woman exploring her urges with dangerous results; with the markedly similar «Beach Rats,» Hittman brings the same tropes to the plight of a young man in a film that has the precision of a great short story and the uneasiness of body horror.

It's good, it wants to tell a story, it has decent special effects, some occasional b - movie gore, the usual tropes of a story, all done in... I don't know, good taste?

Despite my complaints about its reliance on indie tropes, I found myself enjoying the funny quirks each character carried as well as how the story resolved.

Peyton Reed «s Marvel origin story didn't feel like most comic book movies because of its crime caper tropes.

The US debut of Belgian filmmaker Michaël R. Roskam (2011's Bullhead), The Drop, based on Dennis Lehane's short story, melds European sensibilities with the tropes of an American crime picture.

A fascinating true - life story of reclaiming art stolen by the Nazis gets flattened into familiar, feel - good tropes

The story is female - centric, ripped from the headlines, and pits a fiercely loving mother and her vulnerable child against a predatory older man, all tropes of the type of TV movie that makes middle - aged moms cry into their chardonnay.

Penned by Max Landis and directed by Josh Trank, while «reinvention» would be too strong a word, «Chronicle» does a nice job of twisting the standard genre tropes into a pleasantly refreshing, highly entertaining story that features no costumes, no villains, no score, and even at less than 90 minutes, a fair amount of substance.

Right at the dawn of the current fairytale - movie era, this story of a princess who is banished from an animated wonderland to present - day New York manages to comment wryly on a lot of the genre's tropes without undermining them completely.

With a story that cutely plays with the tropes of both Pokemon as a series and pulpy crime stories in equal measure, it's difficult not to be sucked in.

Ra.One takes all of the tropes of Bollywood and meshes them into a modern story in a way that is engaging and propulsive.

A trope is a common pattern in a story or a recognizable attribute in a character that conveys information to the audience.

Tropes vs. Women explores the reoccurring stories, themes and representations of women in Hollywood films -LSB-...]

However, it's somewhat unusual for a buddy cop film to make these tropes textual, not as meta - commentary but solely to be upfront about going through the motions of «story» and «character development.»

Director Craig Gillespie («Lars and the Real Girl»), writer Steven Rogers and a breakout Margot Robbie in the title role do a phenomenally entertaining job bringing all this to vibrant life, mixing biopic and documentary - style tropes, direct address, and split screen for a movie that sometimes seems as if it can't believe it's telling a true story, either.

It's an overplayed trope that we still see plaguing games and other media, and it's sad when a developer loses the chance to tell a truly meaningful story.

The use of certain tropes in the narrative are also glaring given the film's inertia — when Dovid starts to read a succession speech from a piece of paper, only to go off - script in a fit of frustration — one can't help but wish that Lelio had taken more time to craft his love story adaptation by thinking through the enormity of every small artistic decision.

The «Rocky» film franchise made the favorite Hollywood trope of the underdog story most memorable over its seven films.

On the one hand, the premise and story are a clever adoption of old fairy tale tropes (the pauper princess, heroic warrior savior, evil quasi-relatives, completing three trials, etc.) dressed up as modern big - budget sci - fi.

Satirical Story with Divergent Paths and Multiple Endings Playing off common anime and video game tropes for social satire, the player's choices determine how the story progresses, leading to one of many unique endStory with Divergent Paths and Multiple Endings Playing off common anime and video game tropes for social satire, the player's choices determine how the story progresses, leading to one of many unique endstory progresses, leading to one of many unique endings.

It's a story of same - sex love, set in 1983, but Call Me by Your Name avoids so many doom - and - gloom tropes of the genre; Chalamet's Elio is confused and out of place, but there's never any sense of harm that would come to him by embracing his true feelings.

Speaking of tropes, that's where the «based on a true story» bit comes in.

A sad story resistant to its own sadness, a meta - biopic gleefully subverting some overdrawn tropes and playing others completely straight, A Futile And Stupid Gesture is at odds with itself.