Other witnesses said pressure to bend stories to authorities' liking was considerable.
From its truly global parentage to its time-bending story told by three directors using two separate production crews, the movie is unabashedly strange.
The star of the "Matrix" trilogy is not the first director forced to bend his story line to Chinese political will.
An interesting and certainly beautiful location for a movie, to be sure, but the contrivances made to incorporate it can easily bend a story until it breaks.
Her head shaved, her face grave, she's silent for much of the series, but she bends the story toward her, through fearless emotional transparency.
In Making Shapely Fiction, Jerome Stern explains that, "Unreliable narrators are untrustworthy characters who try to bend the story for their own reasons".
(Though it should be noted that many of these opponents bent the story to imply that all Iran nuclear sites would be self-monitored, and not just this particular site).
If you've got a really cool scene which you want to incorporate, don't bend the story to make it fit in.
And then there are the stories where reality bends and warps, stories that seem to explode off the page.
Below are a few activities known to cause disc injuries that you may want to work into your story: Sharply bending or twisting, especially when holding a heavy weight.
One story "bends" to become a comedy; the other "breaks" into tragedy.
