After intermission came Strauss's extravagant and self-referential "Hero's Life," a six-scene narrative, which the composer wanted to be programmed with "Don Quixote".
The individually framed drawings represent domestic scenes, narrative fantasies and crucifixions, but they are too sketchy to be very compelling in their own right.
Rarer is the film that, start to finish, is a one-person show: an extended aria, trading a scene-to-scene narrative for solitary storytelling and eschewing landscapes and sets for the power of one face and body.
As Owen rehearsed the fire gag, he and the film's director, Jonathan Hensleigh, discussed the scene's narrative elements.
The setting is a Covent Garden now so sparkly and mercantile that, until the really enchanting final scene, the narrative is often overwhelmed.
Dramatic monologue, a poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character; it compresses into a single vivid scene a narrative sense of the speaker's history and psychological insight into his character.
It seems an apt phrase for Boucher, too, less for the quantity of his output than for the loving touch that he brought to every genre of drawing, including landscapes, pastoral scenes, religious narratives and literary illustrations, and of course nudes.
In Languages Of Navigation Within Computer Games Flynn asserts that Final Fantasy Xs navigation is a representative and symbolic language, writing that "[a]lthough Final Fantasy X establishes itself through the opening cut scene as narrative based, it becomes clear that a poetic and mythic experience of space rather than a cinematic sense of space is in operation".
Madvillain was thinking more clearly when this album was assembled from scenes into narrative.
The dialogue is lost, but the score stands on its own, with a series of meditative scenes replacing narrative action.
