Sentence examples for tale on screen from inspiring English sources

Writing in The New York Times, Alessandra Stanley said: "It's almost impossible not to take liberties when putting this tale on screen.

That's of course not how they meet in the book, but then again it's almost impossible not to take liberties when putting this tale on screen.

TV and movies are also affecting young people's attitudes toward marriage, as they compare their problematic, real-life relationships to the perfect fairy tales depicted on screen.

We kept switching on screens.

Unlike the opening night of Trevor Nunn's Barbican production, which produced poor reviews but staggering box office, this new production – which gives the characters of Jean Valjean, Fantine, Cosette a forever life – is going to go down in history for the way it tells a musical tale on the big screen.

It's a playful tale of the fiction on screen and the fictions in our heads – and it's a bamboozler.

Throughout their friendship, they create storybook tales that come alive on screen, as their tiny clay figures of knights and princesses take the eerie shapes of green-faced, life-size actors.

Based on the true whaling disaster story that inspired Herman Melville's classic 19th century novel "Moby-Dick," "In the Heart of the Sea" depicts the fearsome white sperm whale at the center of the tale as he has never appeared on-screen before: in photo-real form, with close-ups and character-revealing shots executed by artists at the London-based visual effects house Double Negative.

The story was suddenly, as David observes on screen, a "riches to rags" tale.

Brandon's ultimately wrenching tale may sound tabloid-ready, but on screen it turns into Theodore Dreiser's idea of American tragedy.

Tom Hardy won lead actor for the British drama "Locke," in which he is the only actor on screen in the tale of a construction manager who puts his career and marriage on the line.