Sentences with phrase «telling fictional stories»

«On our first date, I was trying to impress my now - wife by telling her fictional stories about all the places I'd traveled.

Directed by Ridley Scott, G.I Jane tells the fictional story of the recruitment and training of the first woman Navy Seals.

Iranian filmmaker Ghobadi examines the underground music scene in his country by telling a fictional story that's based on «real events, locations and people».

Based on research and interviews by the screenwriter Paul Laverty, this movie tells the fictional story of Daniel Blake, a middle - aged widower in the North East who can't work or get benefits after a near - fatal heart attack, and the story is told with stark and fierce plainness: unadorned, unapologetic, even unevolved.

The trouble began last fall, he said, when «Won't Back Down,» a film telling a fictional story of a parent trigger effort, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis, was being released.

B.A. Shapiro's new novel, The Muralist, tells the fictional story of two Abstract Expressionist painters.

Maybe we can get closer to the truth by telling a fictional story instead of an obsessive search for strictly factual events.

Not exact matches

Not because a book of what we feel are fictional stories tells us so.

On the other hand, if you told that same thousand people to write a fictional short story, you'd get a thousand different stories with virtually nothing in common.

Ambersons tells the story of George Amberson Minafer, a spoiled young man coming of age at a time of upheaval in his fictional Midwest hometown (modeled on Tarkington's Indianapolis), and headed for a «comeuppance» as the world changes and his Gilded Age lifestyle collapses.

The «history,» whether fictional or real, whether told as a story or a confession, does not have the precision and purity of poetic «perspectival individuality.»

Perhaps most of our stories are told today through media channels - fictional stories, news stories, advertising stories.

I am a proud member of the first camp, seeing epic and eternal themes in the books as worthy of discussion and the violence as a part of the fictional world that tells the story.

In it, I tell the humorous (and fictional) story of how I sought to become the world's greatest fisherman.

They told stories about fictional heroes all the time.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

After failed attempts at a fictional account, a lunch with the writer Gay Talese — who urged Villano to tell the story as nonfiction — provided the push he needed.

A: Of course it's a fictional story, but we had a profiler check all the facts we know about Ötzi and his death, and he told us everything could have happened the way we tell it.

It's not that the film is hard to follow, it's just that writer - director - star Ben Affleck took the «everything and the kitchen sink» approach to telling the two - hour - plus story of fictional mobster Joe Coughlin, and it didn't work.

It perhaps explains why Epstein and Friedman resort to a fictional telling of an important story, but the complexity of the debates that Deep Throat and Lovelace's story provoke is lost in their simplistic film that's made enjoyable by good performances and incidental pleasures.

This entirely fictional movie tells the story of the miraculous landing of a commercial Jet after a mechanical failure sends it plummeting to the ground.

Mafia 2 Mafia 2 tells the story of Vito Scaletta, a gangster who tries to climb through the ranks of the Mafia from the fictional Empire Bay city.

Inventing characters is a lot of fun but I don't think I'm capable of creating a fictional character that could possibly be as dimensional, idiosyncratic or fully realized as the actual people I read about in the newspaper every day — which is another way of saying that when you're telling a true story, life itself has done most of the work for you.

The visual storying telling between the fictional book and the reality are clear, but it's when the two begin to reflect each other metaphorically and physically, that it becomes blurry.

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

The story of a fictional metal / cock rock band told through talking head interviews that chronicle their iconic ups and downs, Spinal Tap is our best, early glimpse at the team who'd go on to make Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind and Best in Show.

In this case it's another genre — fictional, serial story - telling — one a good distance away from journalism, memoir, and essays.»

Set on a fictional island off New England in 1965, the film tells the story of two 12 - year - old outsiders, Suzy (Kara Hayward) and Sam (Jared Gilman) who run away together.

And that is especially the case given the demand that female characters — and actual human women — be constantly likable has a way of limiting the stories we can tell about fictional women, and imposing restrictions on the opportunities and chances granted women in the real world.

«I'm deeply keen to make sure the African story is told with specificity,» says Gurira, explaining that creating fictional African nations and peoples, while common, doesn't sit well with her.

Here is the official press synopsis: «A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

The film tells the story of The Wonders, a fictional light - rock band of the mid-1960s who bear an intentional resemblance to The Beatles.

A great mini play set in 1940 that tells the story of one family's experiences during an air raid in a fictional town.

Children will explore the world of make believe as they retell fictional stories, and exercise their imaginations by building and telling their own stories.

Charlotte Rains Dixon shares the essential conditions for writing success; and Rachelle Gardner shows us how we might be stressing ourselves out by interpreting the facts into an incorrect fictional story we tell ourselves.

For novels, fictional anecdotes in nonfiction, and true stories told in a narrative style, I highlight areas where you can «show, not tell,» use active voice rather than passive, and weave in more sensory details and point - of - view characters» observations, thoughts, and feelings.

This collection of remarkable poems, in which fictional Harlem residents tell their stories, is read by 13 outstanding narrators, whose vivid portrayals amplify vintage sepia - toned photographs in the accompanying paperbound book.

Abdul - Jabbar and Obstfeld introduce 16 mostly lesser - known African American inventors through a chatty and informal fictional story told by young twins, who learn that many items in a typical American house — the ice - cream scooper, the microphones in cell phones, and more — were invented or developed by African Americans.

In some of the stories Pietrzyk does seem to talk directly to her husband but whether it's the fictional spouse lost by the character or the real - life equivalent the author lost, it's impossible to tell.

Meloy juxtaposes the «fictional» Liars and Saints with the «real» A Family Daughter to tell a story that stands alone in either book but, when combined together packs «a seismic wallop».

Weatherford has constructed a fictional verse memoir to tell the first - person life story of the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday.

Accompanied by drawings created by real - life prisoners of the Terezín concentration camp, these gripping poems tell the heartbreaking stories of multiple fictional characters.

The story is largely autobiographical although it is difficult to tell which elements are borrowed from the author's life and which ones are fictional.

That said, if you do not understand why players tell non-diegetic stories, you are at a disadvantage when it comes to understanding how to construct those stories that occur within the fictional worlds of games.

So while the game is a RTS, there is plenty of great story telling moments, particularly with the use of «hero» units which adds an extra layer to the game due to their special powers and really makes you relate to these fictional characters quite well.

Antoniades tells me that he was inspired by the movie Fargo for this idea, which famously opens with the message «This is a true story» despite being an entirely fictional tale.

For those of you that don't know about this game (fat chance, though), this reboot tells the story of Lara Croft, a young archaeologist that along with her crew, are ship - wrecked on a mysterious fictional island named Yamatai.

They dive into the fictional world and tell the story of their hero, Little Fox, who goes through, adapts and overcomes the challenges of change.

A film within a film, «Looking for Oum Kulthum» portrays a fictional Iranian artist in exile and her quest to tell the real - life story of the legendary Egyptian singer Oum Kulthum.

«As sound maps do, it also features field recordings which are accompanied by voice narrations that tell fragmented stories about a woman who was born and raised, and has lived her entire life on this fictional island.»