Word: plotting
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...plot is woven from multiple fixations with Lewis Carroll's classic. There is Phoebe, who knows the book cover to cover, thanks, at least in part, to her mother, who has been unsuccessfully working on a dissertation on perversions in Alice for long enough to have taken on a twitchy, Mad Hatter-like look herself. Then there is Phoebe's drama teacher, Miss Dodger (Patricia Clarkson), who approaches directing an elementary school production of Alice with the dedication of Bertolt Brecht. Miss Dodger wears her hair in severe braids wrapped around her head, which have apparently squeezed all affect...
...this is a real movie, vigorously visualized from Gibbons' template, and screenwriters David Hayter and Alex Tse have brought coherence to a plot that often lurches into flashbacks within flashbacks. The section showing the mutation of mild-mannered scientist Jon Osterman (Billy Crudup) into Dr. Manhattan is a gem of lucid storytelling. Shuffling the sequence of tenses, the film shows Jon as a young man in love, a fellow scarred by a nuclear accident, a boy watching his watchmaker dad, a superhero who can change size and location at will, a middle-aged stud letting his old love slip away...
...train?”—Kapilow transforms Dr. Seuss’s classic tale. In addition to adding variety, the creative arrangement and interplay of ritardandos, accelerandos, crescendos, and diminuendos further the emotional component of “Green Eggs and Ham” and shape the plot dimension of the otherwise playful but repetitive rhyme.The biggest success of “Green Eggs and Hamadeus” is the appeal to a remarkably wide range of ages and its interactive, engaging presentation. The line between performers and audience is blurred from the beginning...
...audience members to come who normally wouldn’t, I go on AM call-in radio shows and offer four free tickets to people who seem to hate classical music the most. In Omaha, Nebraska, the winner was a woman who complained that classical music had no plot. I thought that was truly insightful—there are just notes going by, just random sounds. My job is to get people to follow the plot of the music and to understand the language that the plot is being spoken in. THC: What is it about the stereotypical classical music...
...Pulliam from “The Cosby Show”), is charged with prostitution. But unlike former Madea movies, “Madea Goes to Jail” fails to skillfully weave these two threads together. The movie opens with one of the few true links between the two plots: several Atlanta district attorneys meeting to review the case of Mabel Simmons—better known as Madea—who has just been charged with assaulting three cops. The lawyers will share scenes with Madea only twice thereafter; otherwise, their stories are completely unrelated, resulting in two distinct works...