Sentences with phrase «straightforward retelling of that story»
Noah, the film, may be inspired by the biblical character and events — but it is not a straightforward retelling of that story.
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Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella is, for the most part, a straightforward retelling of the fairy tale, and the Walt Disney Pictures imprimatur ensures that the filmmaker forgoes the more violent moments in the Brothers Grimm version of the story (no one cuts their toes off here in order to fit into Cinderella's glass slipper; to see that, you'd have to turn to Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods).
As a straightforward retelling of Turner's own unfussy tale, «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool» possesses the benefits of forthrightness, but that also lends it an air of banality: What is surely one of the unique love stories of its generation is robbed of its strange, even bizarre beauty.