Sentence examples for movie structure from inspiring English sources

The structure was a really terrific movie structure.

But there is something of a connect-the-dots television movie structure to all this.

Changes to the original story seem likely to arise from the close ties with the film, whether that's rearranging events to fit better with a typical movie structure or adding female characters to diversify the cast.

Campbell's central argument, that all mythological tales spring from a single monomyth in which a hero defeats a series of challenges to attain a life-changing gift, is central to both video game and movie structure.

Reporting in the journal Psychological Science, James E. Cutting of Cornell University and his colleagues described their discovery that Hollywood filmmakers, whether they know it or not, have become steadily more adroit at shaping basic movie structure to match the pulsatile, half-smooth, half-raggedy way we attend to the world around us.

A better understanding of movie structure and of movie cognition (for example, Hasson, Mallach, & Heeger, 2010; Zacks, Speer, Swallow, & Maley, 2010) continues to open a new window onto the study of mental processes as they work continuously over spans of up to 2 h and more.

There Rozier found the tone of loopy, sentimental comedy and the shaggy-dog road-movie structure that he extended even more radically and ambiguously in this, his rarely revived second film.

It combines some of Wenders' familiar elements – a road-movie structure, an alienated male protagonist, a Wings of Desire-esque entrée into human thoughts – but something about the swirling soup of its pomposity is absolutely ruinous.

There are still side-splitting moments – as many as there are in any other comedy this year – but without the road-movie structure that kept Borat moving forward, Brüno is more of a scrappy compilation of YouTube clips than a fully realised film.

Are movies structured to appeal to this most basal of beats?

(Dargis) 'ULTRAVIOLET' (PG-13, 80 minutes) The latest in movies structured around eyewear and abdominals, "Ultraviolet" stars Milla Jovovich as a genetically modified human -- part vampire, part chameleon, all model -- and one of the many victims of a government experiment to improve on nature.