The only movie I know that comparably fills its frames with scenographic inventions of dramatic significance is Jacques Tati's "Playtime"; it, too, is great to see on DVD.
Even there, where the setting — the sight lines between the town at large and the character's standpoint — is of dramatic significance, Guadagnino has no interest in showing a broad view of the location, because of his bland sensibility and flimsy directorial strategy, because of his relentless delivery of images that have the superficial charm of picture postcards.
Chandor, whose father worked in finance in New York, demonstrated a forceful and sensitive understanding of such things as the protocols of hierarchy in the financial world and the dramatic significance of decorum, diction, glances, silences.
Other plotlines, however, Schrader just puts out there, in scenes that point to emblematic traits, some of which have more thematic than dramatic significance, others of which merely ramp up pathos.
When Edith Wharton said, of "The House of Mirth," that "a frivolous society gains dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys," we see that for Wharton, Lily Bart was a way in, and are reminded that dramatic significance has always been hard won.
The precise timing of flowering is fundamental to successful reproduction, and has dramatic significance for crop yields.
Pegg injects plenty of fun and wit and certainly doesn't hesitate to give his own acting role, chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, a touch more dramatic significance than might otherwise have been the case.
Correct timing is fundamental to successful reproduction and has dramatic significance for crop yields [ 1].
All three books in the trilogy rely on a kind of dramatic irony, whereby we see the larger significance of struggles that for the children are immediate and utterly surprising.
This setup, combined with the significance of the Kennedy assassination anniversary, lends "Regular Singing" an air of dramatic contrivance that was less evident in the earlier plays.
That sounds kind of dramatic!
