GTA V's cinematic approach demanded a rigid narrative structure, so heists play out as choreographed sequences in which the actors need to hit their marks, little glowing circles in the environments just like the pieces of tape on a theatre stage that tell performers where to stand when delivering their monologue.
To be effective at a time when everyone is being pummelled with "facts" day in, day out, providing rigid ideological narratives that are easy to understand is essential.
Because I was trying to fight a rigid, singular narrative with a really rigid, singular narrative".
Listen Up Philip is a reminder of the kind of independent movies conceived without rigid adherence to narrative formula and romcom recipe.
But despite the rigid economy of ballad narratives, a repertory of rhetorical devices is employed for prolonging highly charged moments in the story and thus thickening the emotional atmosphere.
The people in the crowd seem like they showed up more for the symbolic acknowledgement of their own up-from-nothing narratives, their rigid Christian values, than for Ben Carson, Protector of the Republic and the Sanctity of Human Life.
The crowd seems like it showed up more for the symbolic acknowledgement of their own up-from-nothing narratives, their rigid Christian values, than it did Ben Carson, Protector of the Republic and the Sanctity of Human Life.
Later, Jones reveals, Hitchcock worried that he was too rigid in his commitment to narrative rigour.
Conceptual Art, as Ms. Antin saw it in the 1970s, was a boys' club; it was also intellectually rigid, with little room for narrative, biography or fantasy.
The underworld journey and the teenage-girl confessional are both narrative genres with rigid conventions, and as Madison's progress continues and Palahniuk remains faithful to each, what we get is a strange mash-up between the two.
