Sentences with phrase «unnecessary framing devices»

There's a case to be made that the success of a biopic depends almost entirely on the director having studied Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story like a road map of cliché pitfalls to be avoided: Don't lean so hard on formative childhood traumas, watch out for unnecessary framing devices, etc..

Fidelity to Fitzgerald's novel is never an issue, though the screenplay by Luhrmann and usual colloborator Craig Pearce adds an unnecessary framing device to further distance the viewer from the emotional experience at hand.

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In an unnecessary and unenlightening framing device, Berge speaks directly to the late Saint Laurent as the couple's extensive art collection is being boxed up for auction.

Logan Lerman voices Robert Conroy, Stubby's master, and Helena Bonham Carter offers voice - over duties as Robert's older sister, Margaret, though the framing device of the sister's narration, spelling out the emotional beats, is rather unnecessary.