But the season still leaves room for epic set pieces.
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But the damaging plays ended up coming from set pieces.
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The play's script is chock full of ambitious set pieces.
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Five of France's nine goals have come on set pieces.
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Too many of the solos felt like operatic set pieces.
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The world is there, but the set pieces are sorely lacking.
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I always use the example of John Terrry with set pieces.
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Big, explosive set pieces pause to showcase gruesome, dismemberment-heavy deaths.
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Some truly frightening set pieces make this a tense, effective thriller.
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Punctuating the steady stream of horror are some incredible set pieces.
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It has showy costumes and set pieces, but not much underneath.
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Still, we ignore topics — and Trumpian set pieces — all the time.
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His routines were generally a mix of set pieces and improvisation.
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There were also set pieces cribbed from earlier performances of theirs.
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Andrew Das: England's focus on set pieces pays off again there.
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There were no digital screens or intricate set pieces back then.
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Set pieces are determination and a willingness that I can do better.
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Good seasons result in surprising dramatic set pieces with easily recognizable titles.
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But such tantalising notes stand on their own as miniature set pieces.
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Most damningly, Colombia beat the Americans at their own game: set pieces.
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And I also think comedies, you need set pieces, you need scope.
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It's an invasion story, and the big fight set pieces are inevitable.
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Four goals came on set pieces — another humiliation for New York City.
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Between epic set pieces and panoramic vistas Black Panther engages with the
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This wasn't a series of arena set pieces played one more time.
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Set pieces are their best chance to get back into this match.
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England may rue getting nothing from all of these early set pieces.
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The Square is full of gorgeous set pieces and well-tuned performances.
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Still, "Scythe" is full of sly plot twists and absorbing set pieces.
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A few set pieces reminded me too much of locations in previous games.
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More to the point, the party blew one of its biggest set-pieces.
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These weren't outtakes, but actual set pieces designed to be their own photographs.
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What about the big, bleak set pieces like "Big Black Car" or "Kangaroo"?
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It doesn't feature any big, flashy set pieces or dramatic twists and turns.
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There are some great action scenes and a couple of intriguing set pieces.
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The set pieces with these two characters have the tones of grand music.
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By that, I meant I wanted to create suspenseful, tension-filled set pieces.
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It's an ambitious plan, and Kurzweil studs it with some charming set pieces.
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Some very sweet moments, sly commentary and deft action set-pieces throughout #SpiderManFarFromHome pic.twitter.
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Renard, at 1.87 meters tall, is an asset for Les Bleues in set pieces.
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The complex cargo lifting mechanism uses Erector Set pieces and a slow servo motor.
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They lack stakes, because we know who will survive supposedly life-threatening set pieces.
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Additionally, 75,000 crystals were also used in the stage design on nine set pieces.
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This new trailer highlights some of the movie's bigger set pieces and digital effects.
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The party leader's speech is one of the big set pieces of the year.
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Trump relishes the pageantry of international set pieces in which he bestrides the world.
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For a long time politics restricted its childish behavior to these limited set pieces.
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The power ballad came with moving set pieces, shimmery lighting, and some icy gowns. Brava!
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It's packed with subplots, self-aware jokes about show business, and surreal visual set pieces.
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But Inside Out knew that the purpose of set pieces is to advance the plot.
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The awesome photos show Alden in action, and plenty of new vehicles and set pieces.
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In the closing credits, the producers showed behind-the-scenes clips of various set pieces.
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"The first things I remember were the big set pieces of the movie," Hurwitz recalls.
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The convention was one of America's strangest and most compelling political set-pieces in decades.
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There aren't many set pieces to speak of until the latest stages of the game.
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Yesterday's hilarious set pieces from "Louie" or the Beacon Theatre will become tomorrow's enemy action.
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We had to have certain set pieces just so our actors could have reference points.
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"The key to 'Transformers' isn't explosions or action set pieces, it's the characters," Conrad said.
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Wolfe's solution has been to build a kind of historical box around the set pieces.
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They played soaring compositions and moved around the field with big props and set pieces.
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Like most such movies, this is a series of set pieces involving gunfights, chases, disguises.
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The planks can be twisted into sculptural set pieces and bathed in intricate video imagery.
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She writes comic set pieces to make you laugh, sex scenes to turn you on.
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Here, the individuals' anecdotes tend to stand alone as set pieces, disconnected from what follows.
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They feature high-velocity action set pieces and casts of easily recognizable, even iconic, characters.
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In the world of feature comedies, for a director like me, it's a huge opportunity because we get to do character comedy, and we also get to do these set pieces that we've designed from the ground up as comedic and character set pieces.
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He's had two massive New York shows with big amusement park set-pieces and pyrotechnics galore.
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We set up all the set pieces before hand, and they would just follow our directions.
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The model stuck to sophisticated staples, including one of her favorite jet-set pieces — the blazer.
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It doesn't have realistic guns, scripted action set pieces, or a Super Bowl-ready marketing campaign.
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Certain set pieces also had their own bespoke themes that were developed and interwoven with others.
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Mr. Kelly, a writer for "Saturday Night Live," adds humorous set pieces that don't mesh well.
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The 6-foot-1 defender is a lethal weapon on set pieces and in the box.
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Do the mimetic set pieces on Mad Men engender more cinéma vérité than its sexual politics?
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A step below binge watching a show in its entirety is investigating a show's set pieces.
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During the development process we started adding some of this texture into set pieces and clothing.
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He adapted lyrics and set pieces from each of the four shows nominated as best musical.
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In a tournament dominated by goals from set pieces, France&aposs took the lead from a corner.
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You have the big set pieces that could then be connected with a much more complete story.
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To go with this brave new world was a third, more old-fashioned initiative: practising set-pieces.
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That's true of many of the most memorable superhero action set pieces in recent years, as well.
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One of the early action set pieces in "Jason Bourne" unspools during an austerity riot in Athens.
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He studies that data and comes up with organizing categories: themes, set pieces, characters and so on.
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"Castle Rock" — certainly well-acted and produced, with some striking set pieces — may work well for completists.
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But France really hasn't exploited her size advantage on set pieces effectively since that night — until now.
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In absence of either good humor or good set pieces, "Blue Iguana" is a heist gone bust.
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Toronto could not produce with its set pieces, and the score remained 0-0 after 45 minutes.
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What did they do with the set and set pieces from the show once it was over?
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Game of Thrones: The Touring Exhibition will include props, costumes, and set pieces from HBO's hit show.
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"I was mostly working on diamond-set pieces in the style of the 1980s," Ms. Morgenthaler said.
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But, a series can't just devolve into a string of extra, barely-tethered-to-reality soapy set pieces.
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When the show is long over, it's these set pieces that will linger on in the popular imagination.
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The animations and moves are all different, but when limited to predesigned set pieces, each plays almost identically.
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What kind of vision went into creating the scenery and set pieces, as well as all the bloodletting?
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This can work, as it did last year, especially with clever set pieces and some awards-magic serendipity.
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Volunteer, reveals that each group put forth an impressive effort, complete with choreography, set pieces, and stunning costumes.
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Movie is loaded with incredible set pieces and tons of small character moments that leave you wanting more.
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The interns in Grey's are sometimes more like set pieces, floating around the show just to create atmosphere.
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Stories weren't one-offs, but set pieces in an overarching drama: Right versus Left, Good versus Stupid Evil.
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"Two Boys" and "Dark Sisters," his first two operas , offered magical set pieces but suffered from dramatic deficiencies.
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A loosely connected series of set pieces, "Where's Poppa?" prompted outrage in its day, Mr. Canby's approval notwithstanding.
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They deploy familiar storytelling elements, are filled with excellent action set pieces, and center around two fun characters.
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But "Marriage Story" is also funny, lightening the darkness with glittering one-liners and several farcical set-pieces.
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Wesker's prominence, and a handful of slick action set pieces, makes Afterlife one of the series' better entries.
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England, for example, reached the semifinals behind a stolid, safety-first approach and a focus on set pieces.
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There were two goals from set pieces and a cliffhanger of an intervention from a video assistant referee.
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Real Madrid controlled possessions and caused problems for Atlético's defense with set pieces taken by midfielder Toni Kroos.
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Nothing could be bolted to the floor, so actors would crouch behind set pieces to hold them up.
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" One of the big set pieces on "Portlandia" this season is a musical number called "What About Men?
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So, the cast and crew drank tequila in celebration and sorrow of the show, and set pieces, ending.
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"We watched Manchester City on video, and spoke about set pieces, yeah, job well done," Huth said on television.
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Stronghold set pieces and boss fights regularly feature enemies that make flight virtually impossible, even for a few seconds.
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If it's spectacle and set pieces you're after, there are a handful of moments that, yes, will wow you.
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The film's inability to hold back, along with its dubious special effects, hampers some otherwise very frightening set pieces.
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There follows one of the great set-pieces of Nigerian fiction: the ritual humiliation of the humble, uneducated suitor.
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On those shows, though, the religious aspects were in the foreground, set pieces around which the characters could navigate.
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Johnson said the team tries to find the right balance between accuracy to the set pieces and build-ability.
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Both Singin' in the Rain and An American in Paris conclude with minutes-long ballets through multiple set pieces.
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Unlike Fast and the Furious, the bulk of Payback isn't focused on surprisingly warm characterization or spectacular set pieces.
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The London side threatened mainly from set pieces, although the tall Fellaini was a valuable asset in defending them.
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Where Battlefield encouraged experimentation and destruction, Call of Duty locked players into cinematic scripted set pieces and static corridors.
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Mostly "Baaghi" is a fight movie, and a slightly dull one at that, overstuffed with boom-boom set pieces.
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And yet you're reminded, in Lange's brew of languages and lyrical set pieces, that this is someone else's mystery.
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But the choreography for that energizing opening number, and many set pieces, seems almost entirely true to the original.
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His team, he said, has conceded "a lot of goals to set pieces"; that is something to work on.
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The whole story unfolds as a series of set pieces, most of which involve embarrassing situations or hilarious scrapes.
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It's too preoccupied with its action set-pieces to allow its characters and their perspectives much room to breathe.
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In The Last Guardian, the set pieces work because I actually cared about what would happen to these characters.
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The action set pieces in The Incredibles don't just have clarity of motion; they also have clarity of purpose.
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In bed that night, I kept seeing the colors and images and magical moving set pieces in my head.
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The TV show Friends has enjoyed so much widespread popularity that many of its set pieces are instantly recognizable.
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I picked a pair with green stars.) The auctioneer (Missy Burmeister) does a fine job with these set pieces.
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It managed stunning set pieces — the Battle of the Blackwater, the Red Wedding — but it was grounded in ideas.
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Stahelski has a keen sense of balance and movement, and he stages fights and set pieces like a choreographer.
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Unlike most Ryan Murphy-Brad Fulchuck set pieces, we don't learn all of these details through dazzling colors and camp.
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With its worlds-spanning tale and enormous set pieces, God of War nails the action-adventure genre on every beat.
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Every ebb and flow courses through the dialogue and set pieces helmed by a director with minute by minute control.
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The movie is somewhere between an extended music video and a film that just happens to involve musical set pieces.
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It's a tight, at times unbearably suspenseful thriller, with some of the most terrifying set pieces in recent horror memory.
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And yes, she was known for her warmth, her sense of humor, and her able mastery of comedic set pieces.
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The Grammy performance featured a house and fence with a series of dancers moving the set pieces across the stage.
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Like many of the set pieces in the big budget, AAA games Gears 4 is competing with, it looks incredible.
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You get plots with clear emotional stakes, big action set-pieces, and lots of jokes peppered in between those things.
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Few set pieces on Game of Thrones have the level of built-in fan expectations as The Tower of Joy.
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It hustles like a Saturday morning cartoon, eager to have its story cake and eat its action set pieces, too.
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In the video for "I Am Chemistry," they become set pieces in an sci-fi landscape populated by shapeshifting aliens.
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With this trio and other set pieces, Mr. Glass does create something with the outlines of old-fashioned operatic structure.
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The visually spectacular production includes choruses with glittering pompoms and showgirl outfits, and set pieces that go up in flames.
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There are great set pieces involving Justin Theroux's glam-minimalist apartment, which contains both a church and a motorcycle toilet.
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The backgrounds have been refreshed nicely, with a kind of tilt-shift style art that selectively blurs out set pieces.
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That means a lot of set pieces are on wheels, coming and going from a backstage that essentially doesn't exist.
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There might have been a time, theoretically, when big presidential spectacles like this could provide affirming set pieces of tradition.
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In debates, at events, she tells a core set of set pieces and gives set-piece answers to many questions.
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Nevertheless, as seen in the film's terrifying opening and its gruesome climax, Avery deftly orchestrates some grisly, intense set pieces.
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Objects in the world responded realistically, and Valve used that to create a lot of neat puzzles and set pieces.
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Its gag set pieces run the gamut from uninspired to incoherent; Rob Schneider, voicing the title role, is energetic but bland.
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It points out the fake fun of Hollywood with larger than life set pieces and obvious product placement for various liquors.
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"When The Young Pope is bad, it's epically so — laughable, with histrionics and mustache-twirling and bombastic set pieces," he wrote.
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The high-energy performance featured a house and fence with a series of dancers moving the set pieces across the stage.
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The 1994 film uses four set pieces while Gerwig uses only one, which more effectively positions Jo and Laurie as outsiders.
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The design includes brick versions of the show's most iconic set pieces, and minifigures for some of the competition's biggest stars.
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"Mission: Impossible -- Fallout" hits theaters, full of the eye-popping action set pieces moviegoers have come to expect from the franchise.
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The telecast features 21 set pieces (including the inside of Rydell High, Frenchy's bedroom and a backlot with parked vintage cars).
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The new super/anti-hero phenomenon boasts inimitable dialogue, big action set pieces, and an amazing score by Tom Holkenborg, a.k.
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"You never went to a show and it was all songs or set pieces," she says of performances of those decades.
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He is a comparative newbie to Shakespeare and charges through Macbeth's various set pieces with a flat and unvarying vocal attack.
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But as the set pieces turn and the conquests continue, it's clear Mr. van Hove is also interested in something else.
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Once it leaves the countryside, "Okja" turns into a swift urban caper, full of chases and other action-movie set pieces.
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The jokes are thin, the computer animation is wanting and the inane plot is a series of set pieces strung together.
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There are bold set pieces, some magnificently memorable scenes, and a drawer full of minor characters, each one bouncy with backstory.
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Yes, there are many funny set pieces, but everything that happens is authentically grounded in the character's choices, elevating the material.
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It's a series built on a foundation of cinematic cliches, from its stereotypical hero to its copious action movie-style set pieces.
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Fast and the Furious built a name for itself on lovable melodrama, though it's recently wobbled, overemphasizing CGI-soaked action set pieces.
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He once called his creations spaces for him to "string little weird set pieces and jokes along, like beads on a wire".
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While the story does a great job of driving progression, Resident Evil 4 is best-known for its atmosphere and set pieces.
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There are jaw-dropping set-pieces, like a motorcycle chase after an airplane, or a teetering ride up an old mine shaft.
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The score ended in a 3-1 drubbing, as West Brom scored on two poorly-marked set pieces and a loose ball.
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Far too much time is devoted to rehashing, point by point, Rostand's plot, which without the virtuosic set pieces is tedious stuff.
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Unanchored from coherent characters, it reads as a series of oblique set pieces and thesis statements rather than a fully considered novel.
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Assistant coach Germán 'El Mono' Burgos may look like a burly docker, but he's actually the mastermind behind Atlético's prolific set pieces.
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The best parts of Captain Marvel come near the end, when the storytelling gives way to some epic, eye-popping set pieces.
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As a hangover from the old days, we eventually send someone to the shop [where set pieces are constructed] to explain things.
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It's quite literally a play that goes wrong — set pieces fall off, actors 'forget' their lines and the lighting designer 'falls asleep.
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So the chorus and Ms. Kampe must sing far back, with no side or rear set pieces that would help project sound.
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But when Mr. Kwan wrote the book, which was published in 2013, he never thought his set pieces would spring to life.
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They got bigger and bigger, and stronger and stronger, and with them grew the series's reliance on spectacle and stunning set pieces.
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Some of the best moments are meticulously choreographed set pieces in which cameras and characters glide around each other, with dialogue overlapping.
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But these weaknesses don't diminish the power of the grand set pieces and exhilarating twists, or the pleasure of humble, exquisite moments.
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The set pieces skew toward sci-fi, but the burgeoning attraction between Ada and Loch is just as important to the story.
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Certainly A Thief's End features some of the series' most breathless set pieces—that crane-grappling-hook-bridge-race-drag part, right?
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They've earned a couple set pieces in South Korea's half, including a corner kick just now, but none have been particularly threatening.
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A standoff scene near the movie's finale would not be shamed if put next to one of Michael Mann's better set pieces.
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You might expect to see some familiar sights, like some kind of Star Wars action set pieces or some Jedi-related memorabilia.
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What we get, however, isn't so much a cohesive narrative as it is set pieces, held together by a thin framing device.
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Allegra: There's some definite BMBE radiating from Mysterio — both from the character and from his over-the-top, explosive action set pieces.
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His brilliantly funny set pieces are more subtle and successful; similarly, he is more incisive when tracing gradual decline rather than convulsive change.
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The book represented freedom for me with epic set pieces and a genuinely moving humanism pulsing beneath the playful and revolutionary surface postmodernism.
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The costumes and set pieces did not disappoint in The Wiz, and one moment in particular lit up our screens with pure fire.
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And Ms. Calderoni gives vivid life to some of Mr. Eugenides's most startling set pieces, including a climactic sequence in a freak show.
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Like we can't have cables running up and down a stage if there are set pieces coming in and out during the performance.
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It's stunningly evocative TV. Halt and Catch Fire isn't really a show that goes in for gigantic set pieces or big, epic moments.
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Science fiction author Matthew Kressel agrees, noting that a brief sequence of trench warfare is one of the movie's most interesting set pieces.
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The studio partnered with Hollywood auction house Profiles in History to sell around 500 costumes, props and set pieces from all four movies.
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By the time the duo were encircling each other before sinister stained glass set pieces, a good half of the crowd had left.
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The Mandalorian is visually stunning, with seamless special effects, high-contrast shots that sear themselves into your memory, and clever set pieces galore.
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It might collect a series of set pieces or — as in the astonishing third episode guest-starring Laurie Metcalf — showcase a single performance.
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For nearly three decades, his ambitious comedy has leaned on articulate and slyly constructed set pieces filled with flamboyant metaphors and ornate flourishes.
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In most games, big set pieces work because they look neat or because the player gets to do something they haven't done before.
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The movie juggles flashbacks to the recent past with several cleverly constructed set pieces in which Zhou meets escape challenges with deadpan ingenuity.
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Accordingly, there are twice as many moms in this movie, twice as many goofy set pieces, and two sexy hunks instead of one.
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It features two iconic action set pieces—an ancient naval battle and a grueling, deadly chariot race, both of which hold up today.
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Andrew Das: Geiger, the American referee, has already given the 'knock it off' guys talk three times on set pieces in Colombia's end.
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Here, the director Lee Unkrich ("Toy Story 3") and the production designer Harley Jessup explain how, using three of the film's set pieces.
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But, if nothing else, the titanium-framed model could probably serve as a blunt weapon in one of the series' signature set pieces.
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Their first play, in 1976, was 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown,' and those boxes, those little colorful blocks, were the set pieces.
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Officials gave no details of the big event and similar announcements in the past have been linked to relatively low-key set pieces.
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They appear in medieval writings and Renaissance paintings, in Shakespearean works and set pieces from 19th-century American and British novels, particularly by Dickens.
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A great deal of the film just involves characters looking for each other and meeting or parting in a rush between action set pieces.
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How much of what you do are set pieces like that versus being able to read and react off the crowd, and improvising accordingly?
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Through incredible command of the stage and the audience's attention, they manage to seamlessly arrange and clear their own set pieces as they go.
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Wang's theater background shines through in these set pieces in A Bread Factory that are often clever and sly in their parodies and provocations.
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It's the difference between films with big mysteries and long, drawn out tension, and films with huge action set pieces and sudden, visceral frights.
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That Mr. Minhaj, who is 30, is still brooding about high school is a bit worrisome, but mostly these set pieces are just anticlimactic.
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That ferry scene is one of the film's biggest set pieces, not just as a show of Peter's superpowers, but also of his fallibility.
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But it's the new season's balance between action-packed set pieces and deep, interpersonal relationships that brings the series to a surprisingly satisfying conclusion.
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Now you can explore one of Hayao Miyazaki's iconic set pieces as an incredibly detailed model, thanks to self-taught Japanese sculptor Hiroshi Ito.
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Perhaps the game's creators, realizing they are taking control from the player, compensated by creating set pieces worthy of the films that inspired it.
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Guardiola highlighted its set pieces, not only the corners and free kicks but the throw-ins, for which the club employs a specialist coach.
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While technically before the beginning of summer, Trump's international travels began with a trip to Japan filled with political "set pieces" in late May.
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Like many "Walking Dead" set pieces, the line between meaningful moment and "check it out bro" visual effects was as hazy as Carol's perspective.
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Barker builds a rich account of the Blitz upon these characters, and "Noonday" is perhaps strongest in its set pieces of London's wartime life.
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This has been a World Cup decided by the dead ball: nearly half of the goals have come, directly or indirectly, from set pieces.
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Freud said that of all men only Nietzsche truly knew himself, and his letters can be wildly funny and full of comic set pieces.
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Even when Bekmambetov replicates the major set pieces from Wyler's 1959 production, it just ends up reminding viewers how much better the originals were.
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There aren't any crazy set pieces or wild action sequences, but "Shtisel" is addictively, almost obsessively intimate, and it treasures its characters' smallest behaviors.
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One of the book's biggest set pieces takes place on a Ferris wheel out in the desert, one that's been turned into a prison.
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Sherman's script retains many of the set pieces and much of the dialogue from the movie, but out of context, they often feel flat.
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But attention must be paid to the first two films' impressive execution of emotional storytelling amid eye-dropping visuals and exciting, blockbuster set pieces.
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It isn't an over-the-top spectacle of rotating set pieces and wardrobe changes, or a showcase of vocal acrobatics and choreographed backup dancers.
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Rebecca pitched the soundtrack as theatrical and video game-inspired, capturing the show's contrast between down-to-earth moments and grand fantasy set pieces.
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With The Dirt, we get all the gross antics and none of the music (because, in my opinion, it sucked) while women are set pieces.
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The last time that the USMNT was managed under Bruce Arena, from 1998-203, set pieces and counterattacks were pretty much the USMNT's only threat.
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Within a week we'd all seen each campaign, we all had a rough idea of how they worked and what the big set pieces were.
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In the same way, some of the funniest set pieces in the musical—an "alternative" nativity play among them—feel squarely aimed at the parents.
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The event is one of the major set pieces of the year for both Hammond and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, who also spoke.
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Abreu's set pieces lay realism and surrealism side by side, keeping Cuca's reactions raw and visceral, but toying with texture and image for surprising effects.
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Beyond that, though, the hour I'd previously missed was a boring VFX orgy of action sequences indistinguishable from the film's other fights and set pieces.
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But the result was a talky, pokey narrative that wasn't brought to life by its action set pieces, no matter how well they were done.
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I think it has some fantastic set pieces and great opportunities for the actors to knock it out of the park, so I'm very excited.
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It understood that interiors, with their tighter spaces, awkwardly placed cover and implicit character, make for better staging grounds for set-pieces than the outdoors.
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England, which had made set pieces the cornerstone of its run to the semifinals, created chances for Harry Maguire and Dier in the second half.
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Instead, it has been a tournament for collectives: for Uruguay's resilient, defiant defense; for England's ingenious, coordinated set pieces; for Belgium's lethal, perfectly orchestrated counterattacks.
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And Roberto Martinez, the Belgium manager, confirmed that the presence of V.A.R. had changed the way his team handled both defensive and offensive set pieces.
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His "Ocean's" trilogy is decidedly higher-budget, with its casino set pieces, glimmering diamonds and, of course, names like Clooney, Pitt, Damon and Zeta-Jones.
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Odd choice given they have very different games, but Lloyd will bring grit and a hard head on all these set pieces France is winning.
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Announcing itself with neon Art Deco titles and stocked with mock Erté sculptures, "Easy Living" has some notable sets and set pieces devised by Leisen.
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Books can be aesthetic signifiers, colorful set pieces of sorts, their spines telegraphing a certain gravitas — or a certain playfulness, depending on how they're arranged.
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Much more than feature films, TV science fiction almost always has to be built around conversation rather than action set pieces or otherworldly visual spectacle.
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It was telling that of the 12 goals England scored in the World Cup (six of them against hapless Panama), nine came from set pieces.
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Sam Mewis led the entire team with four assists during the World Cup and, at six-feet tall, she's an invaluable contributor on set pieces.
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They feature memorable characters, intricate narrative structures, and emotional arcs that invite the audience in, plus all of the technical set pieces and visual spectacle.
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She found this to be a breath of fresh air compared with the "drawn-out set pieces" that have become endemic in big-budget films.
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And Rory Scovel, who delivered the funniest stand-up set I've seen this year, builds set pieces on a similar mix of theatricality and unpredictability.
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Stakes The annual address from the US Capitol is one of the most familiar set pieces of the presidency, and one of the most watched.
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In a series of skillfully executed set pieces, Rosenfeld skewers the pretensions and preoccupations of women for whom "parent" is both verb and competitive sport.
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When he arrived to work Thursday morning, he was asked to turn in the badge and uniform that have become iconic set pieces in his fartwork.
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Its big set pieces aren't gruesome murders, but scenes where killers describe their heinous acts in the dispassionate tones we might reserve for a grocery list.
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Based on what we've seen so far, the film itself just looks incredible, with fantastic vistas and what look like some truly impressive action set pieces.
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In one of his set pieces Sunday, Sharpton recalled the story of how he went to Sanford, Florida, in 2012 after Martin was shot and killed.
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Mr Alvarez stages regular preposterous action set-pieces which demonstrate that Salander has both the physical capabilities of Jason Bourne and the genius of Sherlock Holmes.
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You know how the summer movie season is rife with blockbusters that cost nine figures to make and often feature dazzling heroics and explosive set pieces?
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I've never done that before, with all those different backdrops and shifting set pieces and trying to do the interstitial it was all in one stage.
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He doesn't need those giant set pieces anymore (the coastal road trip, the trip to Amsterdam, the dorm revenge pranks) to still carry the book along.
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Season seven was often incredibly fun (those set pieces!), but it felt more weightless than even some of its weaker predecessors (looking at you, season five).
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It's funny to remember that the big battle scene in the first season was cut, given how famous the show became for huge, bombastic set pieces.
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If anything, a bigger budget just meant the show could build better bad set pieces, buy more bad wigs, and get trickier with the editing magic.
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His comic set pieces were sandwiched between his superb performances of standards accompanied by the pianist Tedd Firth playing in a more earthy style than usual.
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Thanks to the conductor Ryan Brown and the four singers, the recitatives between the set pieces stayed suspenseful; the act took us through quite a spectrum.
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His big set pieces are a scatological story about getting a colonic with his wife, the actress Amber Tamblyn, and an inevitable broadside against President Trump.
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In its final two episodes, Sneaky Pete delivers some fun set pieces, particularly when all of the season's subplots collide in unusual and surprisingly exciting ways.
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I liked the basement set pieces there where Lara Jean has that great scene with John around the piano where it's sort of a breakup moment.
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Take My Breath Away is organized as a succession of installations that serve as set pieces, centered on relic-like objects and images with global implications.
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Brimming with set pieces, artworks, photography, and robot helmets, the first-ever Daft Punk pop-up shop looks more like the first ever Daft Punk Museum.
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The first time you run Battlefield V, it launches the single player cold open and forces you through set pieces that make a terrible first impression.
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Again, Montgomery eats the scene alive — Steve and the rest of the kids are mere set pieces when Billy is throwing his way around the Byers home.
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The surprising run is being fuelled by goals from set pieces, and there was another against Sweden when Maguire headed in a corner in the 30th minute.
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We need more set pieces, and for the trailer we're going to need ..." to have somebody say, "What is churning in you that you want to say?
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In retrospect, Sullivan said, Perry should have embraced the media frenzy rather than run an old-school PR strategy around set-pieces like stump speeches and debates.
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So the film opts for the lowest common denominator, going light on the gendered aspects of the story and leaning too heavily on set pieces and jokes.
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And the film concludes with the rumbling of tanks and one of the finest action set pieces in recent memory that doesn't rely on blood and death.
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According to Bradley, "I think you're gonna get six 'Episode 9s'" in Season 8 — six ruthless, spectacular set pieces that could completely change the game moving forward.
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As for the big set pieces, they're all fast cars with guns on the roof, fighter jets and muddy ATVs, and a fair amount of comic asides.
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And at least Game of Thrones viewers who are arguably still in it for those same reasons have cinematic set pieces and dragons to keep them entertained.
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Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the creators of Billions, also wrote Oceans 13 and many of the set pieces in tonight's episode felt like a heist movie.
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Initial reviews suggest the third film in the rebooted series is heavy on the action set pieces, and weirdly, features a cameo from Amazon boss Jeff Bezos.
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Berg delivers on that promise as the film barrels through a series of set pieces that seem to destroy the oil rig one piece at a time.
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Although marred by pacing issues & some shoddy CG, the film still has enough creepy set-pieces & solid performances to make for an effective albeit formulaic conclusion. pic.twitter.
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Wes Anderson takes his love of stylish set pieces and foreign film to tell this darkly comedic coming-of-age story starring Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray.
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There's beauty in the teamwork exhibited as the dancers continually rearrange the set pieces — metal frames designed by the sculptor Antony Gormley — into buildings, cities, a prison.
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In each of its five parts, The Eyes of Orson Welles conjures up key episodes, set pieces, and ur-scenes from a life on screen and off.
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It has everything "Star Wars" fans love and want: epic, incredible set pieces, memorable and funny alien characters, and tons of lore about the "Star Wars" universe.
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The majority of the goals came off set pieces, which if often the case when a skilled, well-trained elite team meets a far more inexperienced one.
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Stahelski and Leitch calculated each and every move, synthesized influences with their personal artistic style, and in doing so they pulled off some dizzyingly complex set pieces.
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These three wear overalls labeled "staff," and the work's principal choreography consists in how they move the minimal set pieces: foam-board cutouts, a plush, pink rug.
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Maybe they'll just try to take their shots on set pieces, but at some point they're going to have to come out and play a little more.
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Full of period costumes, set pieces and Chalamet's iconic award season bowl cut, the clip gives a glimpse into the royal epic set to release this fall.
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Our reviewer, Daniel Menaker, praised the novel's "emotional intelligence and complexity" and "certain set pieces that show a masterly sense of timing and structure and deep feeling."
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There are also a handful of big, impressive set-pieces that call to mind Uncharted; one of the opening scenes involves escaping a train that's under attack.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 100%What critics said: "With even more epic set pieces and a grandiose scale, Season 3 completely outdoes the two that preceded it.
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City's two goals might have been "disgraceful," as Mourinho said, ugly strikes off set pieces with the ball bouncing chaotically in the box before being prodded home.
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The design is spare — dominated by vivid colors, rather than sumptuous set pieces, which is meant to reinforce the show's oft-stated theme: the importance of imagination.
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His films use sci-fi or fantasy premises to build out some bravura action set pieces, but at each one's core is a recognizable emotional through line.
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency has all the makings of a new cult favorite: It's crammed with weird ideas, gore, crazy set pieces and a few charming moments.
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The show managed those big set pieces so well that at least two of them — the red pair, Wedding and Viper — have become fixed points in mainstream culture.
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Yet the set pieces seemed mostly that -- a backdrop for a leader still engrossed in the political back-and-forth that occupies most of his time at home.
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Its got huge reveals and exciting set pieces but the way it builds off Endgame to to dive deeper into Peter's emotions is really what make it soar.
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Sega designed them around original set pieces—being zapped with electricity, for example, or funneled through a giant lottery machine—that feel like rewards for conquering each level.
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The animators have always been great at alternating between delivering big action set pieces and providing humor by just showing characters' facial expressions as they stand around arguing.
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A virtual reality headset lets viewers follow entire scenes without camera cuts, but the filmmakers never overload your field of view with lots of characters or set pieces.
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After more strange set pieces I ended up in a vertical coffin of static-filled TV screens pressed against the body of – you guessed it – Bald Mustache Man.
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The Obamas' smiling faces are recurring set pieces in Hamilton's America, from Miranda's debut song performance in 2008 to an interview with President Obama for the documentary itself.
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So far, The Handmaid's Tale has avoided one of the biggest traps when adapting a novel: It's invested in the world and characters rather than its set pieces.
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Titanfall 2's electric parkour-style action and tight gunplay make for some great platforming and shootout set pieces, but these moments can also make you feel vulnerable.
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It's like those big set pieces that conclude Robert Altman's best movies, everyone ricocheting around; a little silly, a little earnest, now cue the music and the credits.
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There are several fun action set pieces that don't disappoint, and the final sequence, which takes place over the Kashmir mountains, is a bit of a heart-stopper.
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The minimalism of the set pieces almost add to the urgency of the scene, sweeping the reader up in the classic left-to-right action of the page.
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Rather than critique the genre, it centers on a revenge plot, glorifying Travis's killing spree with over-the-top action set pieces, complete with an unironic mecha battle.
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This scene is effectively suggested in the director James Robinson's brilliantly simple, evocative production, which uses vivid video projections and movable set pieces that evoke a house's interiors.
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He was correct, although France did dominate the flow of play, creating scoring opportunities in bunches from set pieces and attacks down both wings but failing to convert.
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Every aspect of this game stitches together into a masterpiece: the platforming, the puzzles, the combat, the big set pieces, the music, the rate of progression, the story.
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Creating this of-the-moment milieu requires some believable set pieces, and Coe is good at them: In one, we see Birmingham during the London Riots of 2011.
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WHY THE TRAILER IS INTRIGUING The previews for comic-book movies tend to draw on the familiar: iconic costumes and spectacular C.G.I. set pieces while name-dropping superheroes.
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Creating this of-the-moment milieu requires some believable set pieces, and Coe is good at them: In one, we see Birmingham during the London Riots of 2011.
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Unlike his great rival Lalique, Boucheron focused on gem-set pieces (joaillerie) rather than mere bijouterie, which then harnessed more decorative materials such as glass, enamel or animal horn.
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The Bard Festival Chorale is on hand for the rousing choral set pieces, and is joined by the singers Janai Brugger, Eve Gigliotti, Cooper Nolan and Alexander Birch Elliott.
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A true TGIT-worthy series is a veritable feast of jaw-dropping twists and set pieces that veer towards the unbelievable without falling off the "no that's impossible" cliff.
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Meanwhile, the explosive set pieces have stretched past extravagant and into bloated, making Dead Men Tell No Tales a 130-minute movie that feels like a 180-minute one.
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In this case, they built the cameras that capture the motion of the body in and around the set pieces built by [production designer] Charlie Wood and his team.
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"Deadpool 1.53" follows the proudly foul formula of the first, mixing the usual superhero set pieces with gore, gross-out jokes, 21.5s power ballads and frequent fourth-wall violations.
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In The Emoji Movie, the purpose of set pieces is to have a place to make use of app developers' partnership money — and it shows in the shoddy storytelling.
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Rock Paper Shotgun writer John Walker has argued that Half-Life's bombastic 2004 sequel killed the genre, driving developers into a death spiral of ever-costlier cinematic set pieces.
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But afterwards, they tend to fade into the background, becoming just another moving part in the big action set pieces (and yes, this includes Marvel's new MVP Black Panther).
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The Super Bowl BFFs held hands as they walked in matching vibrant printed jackets — likely a nod to the brightly colored costumes and set pieces from Coldplay's impressive appearance.
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You can feel Ms. Lange giving her all to each of her big set pieces, but they often feel too exquisitely self-contained, like coloratura arias in an opera.
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The clash is a remarkable one, pitting the president and the Speaker in angry opposition and throwing one of the major set pieces of the political year into doubt.
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The original God of Wars usually had a fixed camera on set pieces and Harryhausen-sized monsters, while this new one seems more flexible to roaming the frozen landscape.
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"You may hear I was in a little accident on stage tonight; two set pieces collided, I had to make a run for it, and I fell," she wrote.
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In "Wilderness Warrior," Brinkley's best set pieces involve bear-hunting trips and battles in Cuba; in "Rightful Heritage," they feature epic fights with Congress, and within Roosevelt's own administration.
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Usually these transpire in largish set pieces, with each chapter following a different member of the foursome and extended expository interludes laying out the knotted back stories and complications.
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The shot is deflected, but that Alisson raced over to try to keep it from being a corner says a lot about their fear of Serbia on set pieces.
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But a thriller writer, obliged to deliver a tight plot, the requisite number of twists and showdowns and set pieces, along with a sufficiently difficult but satisfyingly resolved mystery?
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Adapted by Ivan Dixon, the movie traffics in the same set pieces and cliches of the era's blaxploitation classics, but for a far more serious purpose than cheap thrills.
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Brown spent the next two and a half hours performing a series of increasingly inconceivable set pieces, organized around the theme of how susceptible we are to hidden influence.
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The set pieces, like a wolf chase across a mountainside covered in fresh powder or a final mad dash across a frozen harbor, are imaginatively staged and visually inventive.
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In his new film, Loro (Them), you could say that his style—a frenetic expressionism of swooping camera angles and carnivalesque set pieces—has finally met its ideal match.
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Instead it reduced them to a snoozefest of one-dimensional caricatures, forcing ill-fitting set pieces (a car chase, bad viral videos) on veteran actresses who deserve far better.
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The former's a much better film, but they're both big action movies with big set pieces, and they both star action stars who famously chafe at using stunt doubles.
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But plot also essentially stops mattering around the film's midpoint, ceding ground to an ever-nuttier parade of set pieces that seem set on a spiral plunge into batshittery.
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It fills out Wick's universe a bit more without being too hung up on constructing an elaborate and coherent mythology, and it delivers some truly eye-popping set pieces.
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Playing through the Tirailleurs' campaign forces the player to rush through a series of set pieces that are just wide enough to dodge the accusation of being called corridors.
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Against Iceland, whose roster included eight players from qualifying for this year's European championship, the Americans demonstrated their ability to exploit set pieces in rallying from deficits in each half.
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He looks around to see lighting rigs and set pieces around him, and everything looks like the Treasure Island clinic they just left...because they're filming this scene right now.
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For a while, the movie settles for a series of globetrotting set pieces, which usually wind up with the leads squabbling and H getting the stuffing knocked out of him.
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And the single-player mission structure is paced exactly right: a mix of cinematic set pieces and straightforward firefights, peppered with pilot chatter that changes depending on how you play.
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The macro lens picks up every intricate detail as the ink surges and swells around clever set pieces like a flower, a model solar system, and a 3D-printed cityscape.
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He was a complete and utter nuisance at set pieces as well, replicating his long looping header that beat Tottenham to put Leicester three-nil up in a fairytale encounter.
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You can watch the fabled Rhodes-Flair feud unfold over the span of years, with an internal logic that is lacking in most similar set pieces from the 21987s forward.
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These streetwise balletic set pieces have earned Iosseliani comparisons to Buster Keaton and legendary French actor-director Jacques Tati, who reimagined slapstick as a kind of high modernist formal gamesmanship.
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But its unexpected setting, images, set pieces, and even language balance out the sentimentality with a strangely raw and cinematically adventurous aesthetic that's uncommon for a film of its sort.
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The Everton midfielder missed a penalty against Nigeria, and his team will need to do more to share the attacking burden, in particular by being more effective at set pieces.
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The time is nigh to score 30 Rock set pieces—popular auction site Screenbid just put hundreds of props for sale, and bidding stays open for the next two weeks.
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Instead of the big bulky set pieces used in past shows, the team now uses seven projectors to make the audience feel like they have been transported to outer space.
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But the one thing we did do was when it came to the horror set pieces, it was really important that the actors experience those moments and live in them.
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Kodacrome rigged a elaborate net off electrically-wired lights and motors and a remarkably extensive cache of dollhouse-sized set pieces that remind me of this miniature screen printing press.
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You can see stagehand markings in chalk on the back of the set pieces; the characters then make their own charcoal drawings — musical notes and all — in the final act.
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But certain set pieces have Richard running along on a set path while gunning down anyone who springs up to get in his way, and not even those feel overwhelming.
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Benítez was lampooned for his belief in zonal marking on set pieces and for his insistence on "squad rotation;" now both are employed by most, if not all, English teams.
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He delivers any number of well-observed set pieces, such as the time Clark visited Andy Warhol's Manhattan studio and found the art so bogus he had a sneezing fit.
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The film has no perfectly executed set pieces, stirring musical cues, or even ridiculous performances — like the ones in the 2016 circus offering The Greatest Showman — that stir up significant feeling.
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He creates one-of-a-kind props and set pieces for film and TV. When he's not creating props, he dreams of his own gallery full of his own original paintings.
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Yes, the action scenes are a bit more crisp, and the finale, a parking garage brawl between Selene, David, and an oversize werewolf, is among the series' best action set pieces.
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Throughout the film, a series of comic set-pieces pits father Winfried (Peter Simonischek) against daughter in an environment populated by a motley crew of bosses, lovers and Romanian oil workers.
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In this way, The Outer Worlds feels akin to BioWare's best output (or Obsidian's own recent CRPGs) which similarly feature locations as set pieces instead of as a large, interconnected world.
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Baker was also one of the first to popularize a cabaret style of puppetry for children, in which the puppeteers are incorporated into the show, rather than hiding behind set pieces.
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Meanwhile, crowd-pleasing set pieces like Quicksilver's "Time In a Bottle" scene in X-Men: Days of Future Past have been used to sell the quality of whole movies to audiences.
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Identity was such a break from the James Bond/Mission Impossible model, wherein action scenes are 20-minute set pieces relying on long strings of absurd coincidences, wild luck, and explosions.
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But it remains one of the big set pieces of American political life and still serves at minimum to define the political boundaries between the parties, particularly in an election year.
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Few TV actors have showed more skill than Moore in executing complicated comedic set pieces like this one; she finds every single laugh in even the most mundane bits of dialogue.
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At its best, Far Cry is a series about big, action movie-style set pieces, ones that set you loose with a lot of toys and a little bit of direction.
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And if you aren't a dedicated fan of 30 Rock, there's an auction happening right now, until October 18, for set pieces from House—including more than 20 different prop canes.
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For all its stunning set pieces — the battles of the Blackwater and Hardhome, the duel between Oberyn Martell and Gregor (the Mountain) Clegane — "Thrones" at heart is a series of conversations.
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I didn't stick with it, feeling as it did like a game I'd played through before, full of set pieces I saw coming several button presses before they leapt on screen.
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These internal struggles make for intimate drama, certainly not on the same scale as the large set pieces on that other show, where plotlines take on the scope of military incursions.
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Everyone will laugh at the sight of an octopus driving a truck, a wild-eyed loon flying with a bucket of angelfish in her beak and the other slapstick set pieces.
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When the scenes that were showstopping set pieces in the original come along — when the reporter's car doors lock themselves, and red lights start flashing — they don't have the same effect.
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Four goals came as a result of dead-ball situations, taking England's team total to six, contributing to the 40 percent of all World Cup 2018 goals coming from set-pieces.
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Within the tangled web of passion between Natasha Rostova (Lyudmila Savelyeva), Pierre Bezukhov (Bondarchuk), and Andrei Bolkonsky (Vyacheslav Tikhonov), the crew mounted a series of astonishing set pieces, continually topping themselves.
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" Bloom follows suit, reminding me (so that I can remind players) that fans will be getting "more of what they love", not less: the set pieces, the "war and warrior fantasy.
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The set looks great in black and white, but when you examine it in a freeze frame, all the set pieces onstage looked to be made out of pretty inexpensive materials.
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Often chaotic but never disorienting, the movie's spirited set pieces — like a wriggling ribbon of undead clinging doggedly to the last compartment — owe much to Lee Hyung-deok's wonderfully agile cinematography.
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With its history, name recognition, and opportunities for massive special effects set pieces, it's the sort of film you can easily imagine being adapted just for the sake of adapting it.
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But these efforts are not likely to be helped by set pieces staged far from the border in which (mostly female, so far) Trump officials come off looking like the victims.
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But the very traditional staging, by the director Ivan Stefanutti, is uninspiring; simple props and set pieces are rolled into place against generic-looking projected images of snowcapped mountains and such.
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Instead we get muttering and glowering from Mr. Foxx, a story that can't manage enough twists to tie a shoelace, and set pieces that have been done better in other movies.
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In these long, splendidly preposterous set pieces (one involving an extortion attempt that seems too outrageous to be true), you might notice why Mr. Cosby means so much to Mr. Chappelle.
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City struggled to create chances at Goodison Park but Laporte exploited Everton's weakness on set pieces by heading in the opening goal just before halftime with City's first shot on target.
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It has great characters, a good sense of humor, huge set pieces and battles, and a perfect blend of linear story-driven sections broken up by pockets of open world exploration.
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The narrator's screenplay is a MacGuffin, and we might consider the plot as a series of vivid set pieces, a loose scaffolding upon which the author can hang his grand philosophies.
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From there, I had the whole storyline in my head and something that just happened to have a lot of exciting set pieces, tension to burn, and, yes, moments of dark humor.
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There are a lot of different moving and mysterious set pieces laid out in Season 1 of The Society, but there's only one who's cute, furry, and probably a really good boy.
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There are dinosaur marionettes that melt into the La Brea Tar Pits and earthquake set pieces that shake up the stage, brought to life with tiny strings and hand-carved wooden parts.
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For a game that's often a delightfully leisurely experience, outside of boss battles and a few pulse-raising set-pieces, Breath of the Wild has one hell of an appetite for destruction.
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While the inconsistency sometimes hurt Adventure Time's ratings, the show's creative team used the "episode bomb" approach to produce several miniseries that featured some of its most ambitious ideas and set pieces.
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The majority of the time the action set pieces seem quite arbitrary, no doubt because they are, dictated by the requirements of the format rather than by some organic, intrinsic narrative need.
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The levels alternate (again, somewhat roughly) between exploration, horror stealth sequences, and ominous surrealist set pieces that evoke virtual art projects like The Unknown Photographer and Never Forget: An Architecture of Memory.
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Many sets of the day—especially the ones later in the evening—featured big name guests or large set pieces, but Tyler's set was notable for just how solitary he seemed onstage.
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Furthermore, after a China-themed exhibition last year with set pieces and lighting design complex enough to rival a U2 show, the desire this year was to do something a little simpler.
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"Wu Assassins" includes a couple big set pieces, but even more remarkably, every single fight (and there are plenty) feels like it's been choreographed for the perfect mix of beauty and brutality.
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A new creative team has taken over the fourth game in this highly cinematic series, and has kept the exhilarating action set pieces while adding quieter moments about aging, family and marriage.
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Rameau's nephew is an amazing invention, alive as a human being on the page in a way that most of the participants in the philosophical set pieces of the time are not.
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Vaughn and his co-writer Jane Goldman pile on big action set pieces not so much because they're necessary but simply because they can, yielding diminishing returns after the initial adrenaline rush.
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He's spent a lot of time making little objects himself, and now he's selling the film's miniature set pieces as incentives for funding his Kickstarter to bring his character's story to life.
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Some of it took the form of hokey set pieces that fizzled, such as a demonstration of what the T.S.A. now prohibits passengers from taking onboard a plane: hedge clippers, dynamite, Muslims.
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But 13 years ago, Christopher Nolan released this film, which reinvigorated the character and kick-started a trilogy that would become widely acclaimed for its sinister mood and enthralling action set pieces.
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This is a clear sign that the age of the 8K TV is upon us, even if in the short term they're mostly fascinating set pieces for those rich enough to afford them.
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So while the writing was very strong and the set pieces impressed, the story mode as a whole didn't sell the fantasy of a Star Wars adventure as effectively as it could have.
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Erotic costume dramas like Versailles, Harlots, The White Princess, and Outlander embrace "a more is more" artistic philosophy—stately set pieces, technicolor costuming, heightened emotions, fragile temperaments, powerful violence, fabulous intrigue, raucous sex.
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They're relatively non-specific claims about light field technology and human-computer interaction, padded with little sci-fi set pieces and illustrations that are even weirder than your average surreal patent line drawing.
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In his four (!) Fast and Furious films, director Justin Lin already demonstrated that he knows how to transform silly ideas into set pieces that are spectacular and thrilling, and he doesn't disappoint here.
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England, whom Belgium will face next Thursday, are strong at the dead ball — "they have fantastic movement and fantastic delivery," Martinez said — but he saw no particular weaknesses from Tunisia at set-pieces.
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While a slight choking hazard for babies, the components of this kit will be perfectly suitable for most toddlers, and the figurines and set pieces are more than durable enough for rough play.
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And many of the famous set pieces in his movies — the shower scene in "Psycho," the crop duster scene in "North by Northwest" — Mr. Ackroyd suggests, were part of the director's initial inspiration.
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With its split second pyrotechnic timing, massive rollercoaster set pieces, and towering projection work, its indisputably a show for stadiums, meant to be seen and felt by the teens filling the highest rafters.
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The play's spokeswoman said that, when Mr. Murdoch drew close to the set pieces onstage, he marveled at how similar the newsroom desks looked to the ones they worked at in the 1960s.
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For example, only two of England's six goals came from the run of play Sunday — as if that sort of thing matters, since set pieces play such a large role in big tournaments.
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But while Kasdan has made some fine comedies (and one all-timer, the terrific comic detective picture Zero Effect), his command of set pieces lacks the playfulness he brings to the funny bits.
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She's done both for her premiere, in which she regards Graham's steps and set pieces — a few will decorate the stage, but subtly so — as souvenirs, or mementos, from her body of work.
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Digital projection and physical set pieces were used in ways many had never dreamed of previously, and afterward many of these techniques suspiciously started to appear in the tours of major pop stars.
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Even when set pieces are relegated to the far background, a gargantuan stadium, a subway station, and the exteriors of neighbors' manicured houses are all magnificent structures when rendered in López's refined linework.
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Set-pieces are back in vogue, accounting for 73 of the 169 goals, including Mario Mandzukic&aposs own-goal from Antoine Griezmann&aposs free kick that gave France an early lead in the final.
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When the studios began shooting more on location and less on sets, there was no longer a need to stockpile and, much to Reynolds' chagrin, the costumes and set pieces were simply thrown away.
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He painted the signage for a not-unimaginable game show that recurs throughout the movie called "I Got the Shit Kicked Out of Me" on the same day he made four other set pieces.
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Because while a lot of 65days's music is rearranged into soundscapes to match the tempo of No Man's Sky's core gameplay, fuller songs will be triggered by select set pieces, certain semi-scripted events.
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Consider the best action movie of the decade, 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road, which combines top-notch set pieces and brilliant filmmaking with what amounts to a genuine political and even feminist message.
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The helter-skelter set pieces in which Joe and his buddies rattle around the city's cobbled streets, tommy-guns blazing, are as exhilarating as anything in Mr Affleck's other Boston gangland caper, "The Town".
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Cruise's insistence on verisimilitude has become a major part of the mythology around the Mission: Impossible films, adding an extra dimension to "death-defying" when it comes to the franchise's biggest action set pieces.
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The book comes most alive in bravura set pieces, such as the tale of a bow and an axe belonging to a Chamacoco Indian who was brought from Paraguay to Prague for medical treatment.
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Martinez, however, said he was not preparing with a special focus on scoring from set-pieces, even if both England's goals in their opening 2-1 win in Group G win came from them.
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Teams analyzing the Pumas now have to search for as many ways to combat their offloading, smart kicking game and willingness to attack from anywhere as they show their traditional strength in set pieces.
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Because while a lot of 103days's music is rearranged into soundscapes to match the tempo of No Man's Sky's core gameplay, fuller songs will be triggered by select set pieces, certain semi-scripted events.
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A series of set pieces in glamorous international locations, "The Return of the Pink Panther" was followed by two diminished returns, "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (1976) and "Revenge of the Pink Panther" (1978).
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In "What Happened," there are set pieces about being a minority in her own house that, like "Get Out," use the tropes of horror to explain the experience of being black in white spaces.
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Sometimes that might mean going to Hollywood: The new Fox TV show "LA to Vegas," a comedy about the airline industry, got many of its airplane seats and other set pieces from Pinal Airpark.
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Instead, stuff yourself with these incredible set pieces from photographer Jessica Pettway and prop stylist Sara Schipani, who teamed up with nail artist Lyndsey Rae to create the perfect vibe for your annual feast.
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Still, anyone vaguely familiar with the story knows where this is heading, and Muschietti and screenwriter Gary Dauberman don't make the set pieces dazzling enough to merit such a prolonged trip to the finish.
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They're known for dizzying architectural set pieces, opportunities to interact with popular characters, combat based on fantastical powers instead of hard physical tools, and pacing that prizes seamless narrative flow over painstaking skill-building.
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"The vehicle's trajectory led to a collision with set pieces in the safe viewing area," said Philip Sokoloski, a spokesman for FilmLA, the official film office for the City and County of Los Angeles.
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Mr. Hyde and the director, Sean Mathias, field these set pieces with a generosity of spirit that surpasses what went before in New York: A history lesson has been reinvented to pierce the heart.
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Tonally, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children hovers somewhere between Burton's signature territory — grotesque horror, awkward campy humor, gross-out set pieces (a plate full of eyeballs springs to mind) — and straight-up adventure.
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Point Break is a lean, ferocious action thriller, and Bigelow takes the action sequences extremely seriously (a late-film bank robbery committed by men wearing president masks is one of the genre's defining set pieces).
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As usual for this franchise, Fallout has a convoluted plot that's hardly worth the trouble it takes to explain, since it's really just an excuse to trot around the globe indulging in extravagant set pieces.
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She also uses popular music, especially hip-hop, as part of set pieces that move the film's plot along, and she likes to shoot in a 4:3 ratio (which looks nearly square on screen).
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Whedon is said to be working on "connective tissue" to link Snyder's already filmed set pieces, and scheduling for actors like Ezra Miller and Henry Cavill has become increasingly problematic as reshoots continue to extend.
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HBO's take looks like it will focus a bit more on the action, with sweeping set pieces set in a photorealistic wild west which is part of the virtual amusement park depicted in the trailer.
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From the high-intensity action set pieces to the quieter moments, like riding on horseback or cooking a meal, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game that will absolutely engross you if you let it.
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"One of the things FIFA said that they would look to stop at this World Cup was defenders ignoring the ball at set-pieces to merely hold or block opponents," he told the Daily Mail.
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In the end, the third film barely has a story, instead choosing to focus on various set pieces centered on the idea of what might happen to monsters (and their dog) on a cruise ship.
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As we've seen in many behind the scenes VFX featurettes, most of the outdoor locations are the result of heavy compositing and computer graphics, on top of props and set pieces added by Riley's team.
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The original Suspiria's murder scenes are elaborate set-pieces done with exquisite slow-build timing, melodramatic in their intensity, and, for many viewers, these gruesome kills were far more memorable than the witchcraft-tinged story.
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Every Mission: Impossible movie does and should focus on the things that make the franchise great, which are stunning action set pieces, Tom Cruise running all funny, and the inevitable triumph of order over chaos.
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One of Eddie The Eagle's greatest strengths is its numerous set pieces, including the use of Prince Charles and Princess Diana salt and pepper shakers to illustrate the distance Eddie needs to jump to qualify.
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The recognizable British character actor Dexter Fletcher does not appear on the screen, but does a great job as a director in getting good performances from his actors and in building set pieces that work.
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Out-of-the-way locations have long been used as set pieces for the numerous universe's numerous planets, from Tunisia and Abu Dhabi's deserts to California's redwood forests to the Hardangerjøkulen Glacier in Finse, Norway.
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For all that, the novel as a whole supersedes its difficulties — especially in its emotional intelligence and complexity, and in certain set pieces that show a masterly sense of timing and structure and deep feeling.
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The Belgians showcased an array of clever set-pieces and will be happy with their performance against a physical Panama side ahead of games against Tunisia and England, who meet in Volgograd later on Monday.
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Still, his announced theme — the moral challenges of the war for civilians in Europe — gives way at the beginning to set pieces on other subjects: the ones, the reader suspects, that Fritzsche finds most interesting.
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Embedded in scenes like the competition between the two masters (of music and dancing), and in set pieces like a serenade and a singing lesson, there are jabs at the unruly foreignness of Italian music.
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Although there are no anachronisms in the book, there are also no long, wearying pages describing the clothing of the period, or the system of belief, or set pieces about the political or social background.
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How these three—four, once Marcus is initiated—interact is one of the most impressive elements of Watch Dogs 2's foundations, the believable support for some spectacular set pieces and player-directed hacking hijinks.
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Put that aside, though, to marvel at Yen and Yeoh, both fifty-somethings, as they move through set pieces with remarkable energy, grace, and beauty that the younger actors in the cast struggle to match.
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Two scenes that could not have been shot with practical set pieces—though LAIKA designers tried—were the massive wave from Kubo's eye-grabbing initial teasers, and an epic swordfight in a rainstorm at sea.
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" And in her review for The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote, "The movie feeds us bite-sized, subtitle-friendly dialogue, finger-puppet characters and a string of brainless set pieces masquerading as a plot.
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He turns each one's unique predicaments into hilarious set pieces — like Mo asking Scotty to describe a porn video out loud, or Scotty persuading Matt to help shave his privates — without ever slipping into mockery.
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Which, incidentally, include a number of bravura set pieces: the General chastised for his excesses by David Ben-Gurion; the General and Arafat reminiscing at the kitchen table over lost opportunities to murder each other.
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We always say that "A" has unlimited resources, so if we had a movie budget, it would just be so much fun to see what "A" could do — yachts, helicopters, big set pieces like that.
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Ms. Badaki was charged with executing one of the book's most famous and provocative set pieces, in which Bilquis, also known as the Queen of Sheba, ends a one-night stand by ingesting her lover.
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Indeed, you can think of Ms. Bamford as the Wes Anderson of stand-up: Both are refined artists whose meticulous and sensitive set pieces are formally daring and stubbornly committed to a distinctive aesthete's sensibility.
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A backstage crew pushes on and pulls off set pieces — from the bowels of a trans-Atlantic ocean liner to a chic jewelry store — from a loading dock behind the risers where the audience sits.
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In 1963, Merce Cunningham arrived in Minneapolis with John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and some dancers — Rauschenberg's set pieces strapped to the roof of their Volkswagen Microbus — to perform "Antic Meet" at the Walker Art Center.
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Seth had elaborate set pieces staged all throughout his pad -- a N.I.C.E. Detention Center, Santa's Space-Time Super Sleigh, a single block of a North Pole glacier from the year 2091, and a lot more.
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He's of average height, with a shaved head—a concession to encroaching baldness—and he has the politician's gift for making his set pieces sound as if he were delivering them for the first time.
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Plus, the big airport showdown between feuding Avengers factions is one of the most purely grin-inducing superhero set pieces ever, one of the few compelling arguments for the ever-expanding bloat of the MCU.
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Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name, The Death of Stalin alternates between wildly funny set-pieces, hilarious machinations among Stalin acolytes vying for power, and unsettling scenes of extrajudicial arrests and murder.
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It's shaggy and doesn't need to be as long as it is, and the grand reveal of the villain doesn't have anywhere near the style and shock as those set pieces did in the books.
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But what mostly follows is an excuse to let Wick do what he does best — kill — among set pieces that are very fun to look at, including a chase sequence involving a horse and motorcycles.
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For everything that works about Any Given Sunday, from the memorable color around the margins to the Emotive Pacino set pieces, there is a great deal of time spent floating in a sea of unnecessary melodrama.
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But now that premium television makers have realized that it's easier to unspool the stuff books are best at—details, set pieces, emotional journeys—in six or 10 or 15 hours than in a mere two.
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As a tease for the performance, Daft Punk announced earlier this week a pop-up shop in Los Angeles that will feature set pieces, props, wardrobe, and photos for fans to explore up close and personal.
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The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, and could easily set the scene for the tense international relationship between America and the Soviets, who boycotted the games (and could you imagine the set pieces?).
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"With set pieces, staging, attractions and experiences Toy Story Land represents the best of Walt Disney Imagineering's collaboration with our storytelling partners at Pixar Animation Studios," said Bob Chapek, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
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Essentially, both the kidnappers and the Gettys wait around for their opponents to crack, so the film doesn't pick up speed (despite some action set pieces and confrontations which have obviously been invented by the screenwriter).
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Each used props and set pieces to get viewers in the mood, then deployed the smells to trigger a level of immersion you don't see—or smell—in your average Google Cardboard or Oculus Rift experience.
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Evocative and affectionate, "Creed" assembles all your favourite set pieces from 1977's Oscar winner, from the jog down the streets in a hooded grey tracksuit to the race up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum.
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The latest trailer for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End isn't focused on the series' iconic action set-pieces, but instead provides a deeper look at the game's story and the beautiful world it takes place in.
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Most of them are set pieces, as when Renée enters a Coney Island bikini contest and charms the crowd by declaring that "Renée is NOT afraid of returning things for store credit" while shaking her ass.
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For the ladies' third go-around, the Emmy-winner is hoping for more fantasy sequences to play around with and the opportunity to come up with stunts for inevitable set pieces in massive Las Vegas arenas.
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It's classic Resident Evil with its multitude of puzzles, dozens of momentary off-limits areas to entice the imagination, and, of course, healthy dose of horrifying enemies, rooms, and set pieces to keep the adrenaline pumping.
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In between set pieces of scatological majesty (one incident involving a port-a-potty, a water hose, and a deer isn't easily forgotten), Davey bitterly shuts out the world and undergoes a fairly standard redemption narrative.
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Even as these shows' live audiences decline, even as they become more about creating YouTube-able set pieces like James Corden's "Carpool Karaoke," their core is still a host on a stage, connecting with a crowd.
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One thing I've learned the hard way is you can't get too attached to stories or set pieces in this news environment because things keep happening: It's more like an improv than a three-act play.
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This week's episode is the kind that takes its mission to move the plot forward not just as a duty, but as a joy, jumping energetically through an impressive list of plot points and set pieces.
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The individual excursions give Muschietti opportunities to spin out some ingeniously creepy set pieces — though none quite matches an early sequence involving demonic fortune cookies — but they also stall the movie in a mire of repetition.
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It is not the director's fault that there is really no story at all, leaving the musical as a series of set pieces that make the plot of, say, "An American in Paris" look positively Dostoyevskian.
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Drawn-out set pieces have become endemic in effects-driven vehicles and can stop a movie dead as filmmakers show off their cool toys (and budget) and ignore everything else, the story and restive audience included.
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Add that with Robbie's tremendous talent for physical comedy and every character having a distinct personality expressed via their fighting style, and the movie's big set pieces are among the most fun in modern superhero cinema.
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The set pieces, particularly a near-tumble off a cliff and a terrifying run across cracking ice, are impressively executed — visceral and scary enough to make this streaming-only release seem like a real missed opportunity.
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One of the worst appraisals a novelist can get, from an editor or from a reviewer, is that the narrative he has produced is "episodic," a series of set pieces that are connected but not propulsive.
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"When 'The Young Pope' is bad, it's epically so — laughable, with histrionics and mustache-twirling and bombastic set pieces," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times about this creation from the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino.
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White's handling of these set pieces is especially strong, sympathetic to the commoners yet not without wit (as in his appraisal of the anarchist terrorists, "who rarely missed an opportunity to make a bad situation worse").
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Though Snatched starts strong, it soon devolves into a series of slapsticky set pieces that vary in hilarity, ranging from Christopher Meloni masquerading as an Indiana Jones type to a gag-worthy bit with a tapeworm.
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"We feared them on set pieces but in the end it was us who scored that way," Lloris told reporters after Monday's 1-0 win over Belgium in the semi-final at the Saint Petersburg Stadium.
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But ultimately, King Arthur is just a loud, obnoxious parade of flashy set pieces, as one visually busy, belligerent action scene after another marches by, each making less sense than the last, but all intended to overwhelm.
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Noguchi's set pieces, including a tall-backed chair and long bench, incorporated Shaker silhouettes; Copland's sweeping score wastes no note in its spare orchestration; and Graham's distinctive, full-body collapses contrast with the heavy, Shaker-inspired costumes.
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Meanwhile, West Ham scored their first two goals on set pieces: the first a result of a horrible gaffe by keeper Lukasz Fabianski, the second when Winston Reid inexplicably won a header between three well-positioned defenders.
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The soft reboot of God of War for PS4 manages to take what the series is known for — namely, over-the-top action set pieces — and combines it with a story and characters you'll actually care about.
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In spite of some dramatic set pieces — a firefight on the road with unknown combatants, a drone strike on what was meant to be an interview session — Whiskey Tango Foxtrot largely moves and feels like a comedy.
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In Logan Lucky, those pieces include some excellent meta-jokes (including one about "Ocean's 7-11") and set pieces (a homemade explosive concocted with bleach, salt, plastic bags, and gummy bears provides a whole mess of hilarity).
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Since the Lions' return from relegation, Coach Johan Ackermann has transformed the team into one that looks to attack and play the width of the field, rather than purely rely on its powerful forwards and set pieces.
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Lea Carpenter's "Red, White, Blue" is an altogether different kettle of spooks, less an unfolding story than a series of set pieces, using — rehearsing might be a better word — some of the tropes of the spy thriller.
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Apparently constructed under the assumption that moviegoers' I.Q. drops precipitously during the summer months, the movie feeds us bite-sized, subtitle-friendly dialogue, finger-puppet characters and a string of brainless set pieces masquerading as a plot.
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For instance, his "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" outfit in the movie was covered in real Swarovski crystals and was inspired by "The Wizard of Oz." And let&aposs not forget the elaborate set pieces and musical numbers.
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I've rarely heard the multiple set pieces in this play sound more conversational and matter-of-fact, as if the speech were second nature to the speaker and not some sort of pileup of well-known quotations.
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Framed by scaffolding and moving set pieces resembling brick walls, the staging recalls the landscape of old New York — until the focus shifts to projections on the backdrop, where flat images and graphics detract rather than add.
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It's here to serve action and comedy in roughly proportionate amounts, with big set pieces that are just thrilling enough to hook you and jokes that are just funny enough for you to hope no one dies.
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During last year's final, an energetic Toronto side pushed forward for set pieces while Seattle seemed more content to pick their spots on the counter but ultimately set an MLS Cup record with no shots on target.
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I used to love fuzzy felt sets as a child, the idea that you had the set pieces but essentially you could make up the scene however you wanted, mine were always a little weird and different.
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Even Eve's ragtag group of fellow agents find ways to make their marks in between the high-stakes set pieces, from David Haig's affably exasperated Bill to Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Sean Delaney's pair of wisecracking assistants.
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There are more set pieces, sweeping orchestral arrangements, and moments of emotional payoff, making parts of the campaign, like driving a tank into a Cabal military base or freeing Cayde-6 from a space-time prison, feel worthwhile.
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Some of the profiles of these characters don't go anywhere in particular — they can feel like a series of set pieces, meant for individual placement in magazines — nor does "The Last Thousand" march toward any single momentous event.
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That achievement still feels exhilarating as the movies progress from massive set pieces like Beatrix's battle with O-Ren in the House of Blue Leaves to her showdown of personal narratives over a table with Bill (David Carradine).
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There are some notable counter-examples, like the impressive real-time set pieces in Uncharted 4 or the anime sequences in Persona 5, but for the most part, the art of the cutscene appears to be slowly dying.
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As the conclusion to the Nathan Drake saga, A Thief's End offers everything fans came to love about the series: giant and eye-popping set pieces, incredibly lush and detailed environments, and a compelling and well-written story.
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The Lego pieces are all traditional and you can even use your existing Lego set pieces with it and the coding is largely confined to code-blocks that already have lots of instructions baked in and fully compiled.
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Like the Friends tribute gifted upon us earlier this year, the latest recreation is dedicated to the details, down to the Eggo waffles box, making up for its lack of costumes with adorably minature, yet realistic, set pieces.
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There are similar pleasures to be taken from "Captain America: Civil War"—not so much from specific set pieces (though pretty much everyone involved is very good indeed at hitting things) but from the work as a whole.
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In the form of blown-up 360-degree sculptures, Mr. Korins will magnify small details — table legs, moldings, chair feet, corners of rooms — and use them as vitrines and set pieces for the artworks and objects on display.
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Valfaris looks like it could be similar to Super Metroid given the sci-fi aesthetic and the gameplay mechanics, but it's much more straight forward than a Metroid game and focuses more on action set pieces than exploration.
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The flux surrounding white identity has also mobilized droves of young white people to begin understanding the set pieces of American prosperity as the product of privilege, and of systems that can be reshaped in more equitable ways.
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The director, Til Schweiger (remaking his financially successful 2014 German film), and his collaborators clearly understand the devastating toll of this disease, which makes the decision to turn Amadeus's antics into comic set pieces that much more disheartening.
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Brad Bird's director's commentary on the deleted scenes of Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol shows how focused the production was on nailing the movie's big action set pieces, almost to the point where the connecting material was an afterthought.
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You might even actually be so physically exhausted by the amount of stuff on screen — from stars to set pieces and enough action to blow your head clean off — that we suggest you consider taking a nap midway through.
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Three main set pieces are on display: a fantastic redwood stump projects out of the ceiling three stories above, a sandy hill forms an unmistakable single breast, a beachy slope rolls upwards and tumbles into bedding, glowing with moonlight.
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There are plenty of incredible looking locales and set pieces, but the real thing that's stood out here is what the movie is doing with Nagini, an evil snake from the book who it turns out is a woman.
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Scenes like this are exactly the kind of set-pieces we expected when Donald Trump's presidency transported us into the darkest timeline of world history, but I wonder, did Trump take us to a dystopian sci-fi techno hell?
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There are plenty of fine, isolated tiny moments, and a handful of gripping set pieces, particularly when Charles and En Sabah Nur face off in a mental landscape, or Angel and Nightcrawler are forced into an oppressive cage match.
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These quiet periods of exploration and puzzle solving are interspersed with periodic chunks of combat and scripted set pieces that lay familiar types of Star Wars bombast on thick—exploding ships, giant alien creatures, lightsaber duels, and madcap chases.
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"You see every team, that they are on the pitch with a clear idea of what they do," he said, citing a statistic that more than half of all goals in the tournament have been scored after set-pieces.
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But "Crisis" also seems inconsequential, as if Mr. Allen, faced with filling not quite three hours of screen time, emptied his notebook and strung together a series of comic set pieces that don't quite add up to a story.
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Now Ronaldo has de Ligt, a player who will only go from strength to strength in the heart of the team's defense, and someone who can link-up with the Portuguese to attack set-pieces with his mighty leap.
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They all collide on prom night, and the result is a collection of jokes and set pieces that never totally gel but are still a cut above a lot of what tries to pass for studio comedy these days.
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This is both the great strength and the undoing of her fascinating and flawed new book, a work of fiction that lurches from excellent set pieces to frustrating passages of exposition and yet always has something interesting to say.
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"The Festival of Living Art" (season 33, episode 7) The Festival of Living Art is one of Stars Hollow's most gorgeous and most elaborate set pieces, from Kirk's method take on "The Last Supper" to Lorelai's flinching Renoir girl.
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The new trailer also features a better look at the action set pieces in the movie, from what is presumably the X-Men's initial standoff against Jean, to the team's escape from capture at the hands of military forces.
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He hasn't been around for awhile but clearly retained his flair for slick set pieces, like the bear attack and the wight capture, in which Jon dispatched a White Walker and saw his skeleton platoon topple like undead dominoes.
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If this sometimes makes the book feel scattered, more like a series of connected set pieces, the long duration has the advantage of illustrating the inherited longing and sense of dislocation passed like a baton from mother to daughter.
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Although an early "Kill Bill"-tinged sequence romanticizes the pleasures of a good, old-fashioned on-screen scrap, the rest of the shrewd set pieces are about finding "a good way to stop the bad," as Walter puts it.
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At New York Fashion Week, the new collection was presented by models wearing the clothes, standing within what can best be described as ornate production set pieces, as if they were preparing to film a scene for a movie.
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Titanic faced the unenviable task of suddenly widening its lens from a pair of teenagers to take in thousands of people facing death, and managed to do it with remarkable humanity while also hammering in some truly heart-stopping set pieces.
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We've seen a healthy chunk of the title in the past, but the new trailer gives us a good glimpse of how the game plans on blending personal, high-stakes narrative with larger-scale terrifying zombie set pieces — plus, motorcycle travel.
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This is most apparent in showy effects set pieces like the one in Civil War that transformed the middle-aged Downey Jr. into a teenage Tony Stark, or the scene in Ant-Man that presented a much younger Michael Douglas.
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Soon, it would capture the attention of some of Hollywood's most well-loved franchises, delivering spinoff games like Batman, Game of Thrones, and Guardians of the Galaxy that focused on narrative and emotional investment instead of action or bombastic set pieces.
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One of the youngest teams in the tournament with an average of just over 26, the Super Eagles displayed plenty of youthful energy but some of it was misplaced during a physical clash that allowed Croatia to score from set pieces.
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It's a sub-genre that Gears made popular, and Gears 4 shows that it's still the best in this class, with huge set-pieces, clever AI that's fun to out maneuver, and the best gore that technology is capable of.
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The final third shifts into high-adrenaline action mode with some thrilling set pieces as Michelle faces unexpected new threats, making the paradoxical conclusion satisfying on multiple levels as it delivers on the thriller setup while introducing surprising new developments.
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We used to think that as video games matured, as a medium, they would become more like Hollywood, becoming more focused on character development, plot reversals, and tight, suspense-driven narratives, rather than action set pieces alternating with cinematic cut scenes.
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Dowling's tour company expects to get an even bigger boost from HBO's upcoming Game of Thrones studio tour, which is set to open in Belfast in 2020 and will give fans access to set pieces and costumes from the show.
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Last year, the network capitalized on Friends' British boom by staging FriendsFest, a five-day exhibition in East London's Brick Lane that included recreations of the show's famous set pieces for superfans and their, er, friends, to nerd out over.
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Even in the relatively short time I played, Ratchet was full of brilliant visual set-pieces, like a ride along a hover train speeding through a futuristic city, or a chase with a massive, lumbering robot through a treacherous factory.
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It gave us jaw-dropping, heart-thumping surprise set pieces, but anchored many of them to decisions so dumb they felt like plot holes — seriously, is anyone ever going to notice the trail of casualties caused by this Jon Snow kid?
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TWD special effects guru Greg Nicotero has directed some of the show's best and worst episodes, but his installments are most enjoyable when he embraces one of the show's greatest strengths: pitting the main cast against zombies in impressive set pieces.
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When he moved to New York at the start of last season, his new coach, Jesse Marsch, asked him to play a more attacking role, and ever since, he has calmly dissected defenses with precision passing and looping set pieces.
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Ms. DuVernay has said she views her film as being primarily for viewers between the ages of 8 and 14, and its cavalcade of colorful set pieces and simplistic conceptions of good and evil often seem tailored for a youthful audience.
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Moreover, Once There Was Brasília is virtually a series of set pieces, of portraits of characters in futuristic garb made out of everyday materials (WA4 wears a gas mask and a suit of rubber; a welding helmet dons Marquim's head).
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Guadagnino fills the movie with primped set pieces and a score by Thom Yorke, but "what precisely he wants to say amid all the carefully choreographed bloodletting and disembowelment chic is unclear," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.
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While targeting such common Python foils as the fatuous upper-class and the easily swayed proles, the movie also indulges in elaborate set pieces and gross-out jokes, in what ultimately becomes an unsparing vision of humanity at its most vile.
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The world building starts at the very beginning — with that dazzling animated sequence that illustrates the history of Wakanda and its five tribes — and continues through visually arresting set pieces like the ones at Warrior Falls and the ancestral plane.
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But it most likely wouldn't be as entertaining as this casual, somewhat shambling series, which catches the spirit of Gaiman and Pratchett's attempt, at the start of their careers, to keep topping each other with gags and comic set pieces.
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Among the anachronisms in the film's set pieces are Queen Anne's wheelchair, which wouldn't have been invented yet, and a blue cake that she eats in a temper, knowing that it will upset her stomach, and promptly vomits back up.
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It has been designed with eye-filling pageantry by Anthony Ward, and features some goosebump-raising set pieces, including one in which the dead Julius Caesar (Peter De Jersey), bursts through the center of the floor as a talking, doomsaying statue.
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He's a charming creation who doubles a signal for the low-stakes ambition of "Toy Story 4," which includes the expected Rube Goldberg set pieces and heartstring-tugging of the previous three, but feels more like a stand-alone adventure.
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The book begins, and races along, as an antic thriller, through a circus's worth of set pieces (sex dolls, lawn flamingoes, motorized wheelchairs, bestiality with dolphins), but throughout and underneath this supersaturated masquerade Hazel tells the darkest, baldest, saddest truths.
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Ball emphasizes her deadpan pluck in the face of incessant misfortune—"People basically beg me to freak out on them, and mostly I keep my cool"—but set pieces, such as an argument with a guidance counsellor, feel a bit familiar.
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Famous pieces from V&A's permanent collection helped inspire the set pieces for Goddard's show, including "The State Bed from Melville House, Fife" (a spectacular four-poster bed upholstered in red fabric that her mother has remade using air beds).
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Which doesn't mean the Fast & Furious franchise has left bromance in the dust; it's simply shifted it to an unexpected — and delightful — new pairing, who reunite in one of the film's best action set pieces (one that, notably, features zero cars).
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If Doom 2016 argued that shooters had lost sight of the pure fun that lay at the heart of the classic id games, Doom Eternal ends up offering an argument for why they evolved toward narrative and cinematic set-pieces.
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ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - France were concerned about Belgium's ability at set pieces but instead scored themselves from a corner to book a place in the World Cup final in an ironic twist, said captain Hugo Lloris after Tuesday's 1-0 win.
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A well-organized Leicester worked tirelessly and looked dangerous from set pieces and it was from a Riyad Mahrez free kick that they took the lead with skipper Morgan bundling the ball into the Sevilla net with his thigh in the 27th minute.
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Over the course of one day, 500 authentic costumes, props and set pieces will be available for purchase from all four films: The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2.
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The show itself might disappear into its elaborate comic set pieces, but it never pushed too far in one direction or another when it came to the very real pain that its three generations of characters felt about their relationships (or lack thereof).
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KALININGRAD, Russia (Reuters) - Nigeria suffered from a bit of growing pains on Saturday when the young Super Eagles were schooled in set pieces by Croatia who shot to the top of Group D with a 2-0 win in their World Cup opener.
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On a technical level, the Japanese set pieces are extraordinary—not just graphic but also brilliantly staged and executed, always giving us a clear sense of the geography and the back-and-forth struggle to claim the terrain for each side's military.
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It's so large and detailed that there are endless corners and crevices to be filled with new narrative, but everything eventually ties back to a handful of easily recognizable concepts, characters, and set pieces — it's a universe that's both expansive and insular.
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Ahead, you can see some of the real-life memorabilia and set pieces that helped bring the show to life, along with an epic recreation of Hannah's apartment and an illustrated gallery touching on some of the finest moments from the show.
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The mapping engines and graphics are exceptional, the narrator walking a user through the game shows off Magic Leap's exceptional use of sound technology and the humor in the game is reminiscent of some of the best Wallace and Gromit set pieces.
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What that is, exactly, is a little ephemeral, but the best I can deconstruct a BioShock-y game is a first-person, story-driven experience with elaborate set pieces, insufferable but strangely appetizing philosophizing, and lots of tiny details to reward observant players.
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The set pieces in "North by Northwest" are stunning, but they would be nothing more than a succession of dynamic and elegant compositions and cuts without the painful emotions at the center of the story or the absolute lostness of Cary Grant's character.
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Where other fantasy series attempt to bludgeon the audience into enjoyment with showy visual effects and epic set pieces bankrolled by massive budgets, The Magicians, stuck on basic cable as it is, relies on ingenuity and emotional adroitness to save the day.
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Among the items in the space: the real bar cabinet belonging to Julia Louis-Dreyfus's character, the resolute desk from "Veep's" Oval Office, Selina Meyer's Smith College diploma and an oversized portrait of the show's star, among other props, set pieces and tchotchkes.
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By blending candid scenes of revolutionaries plotting their actions with staged gunfights and other set pieces, Kramer immerses the viewer in the fictional, New York-based National Committee of Independent Revolutionary Organizations and its efforts to resist a fascist, imperialist United States government.
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Created by Rude Mechs and produced by Yale Repertory Theater, which commissioned it, "Field Guide" distills 800 pages of text into alt-comedy riffs, surrealist digressions and several scenes in which cardboard set pieces whiz around the stage more or less by themselves.
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In Farrell's reading, then, the great set pieces of the book — the violently argumentative Christmas dinner scene, the harrowing sermon on hell and especially the swooning descriptions of Stephen's encounters with the whores of Dublin's Nighttown — are delivered with admirable coolness and restraint.
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While Ashton Kutcher used many accomplices and set pieces to prank his victims, the magician Michael Carbonaro uses tricks and illusions; he'll squeeze a whole pitcher of juice out of one orange or get beetles to seemingly build Eiffel Tower-like structures.
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With godlike generosity, the longest set pieces allow an audience member to relive and redeem a regrettable moment from the past and — for the pièce de résistance — to see her day (the day of this performance) turned into an instant musical comedy.
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As music played, some live and some recorded, a few lavish set pieces unfurled, like a woman sawed in half (a fine trick accessorized with some graceless sex jokes) and an escape act featuring handcuffs, a burning rope and some very pointy spikes.
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" And he told Pete Berg early on that "Mile 22" should have a separate, two-million-dollar budget for two set pieces "with fistfights in cars as they fly around, to give it the look and feel of a much bigger movie.
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Built around a series of eye-gougingly awkward set pieces, and with support from Dominic West and a brilliant Elizabeth Moss, it's Terry Notary -- of "Planet of the Apes" fame -- who steals the show in one of the year's most talked about scenes.
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That's one of the set pieces of this week's episode, and although the plot isn't particularly tense — it's largely a means to cut to the past, where Roger and Brianna have their own raging storm in 1970 — the rain itself is suitably visceral.
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As such the cinema has taken advantage of the socially ubiquitous space of the nightclub as a convenient location for important set pieces that also happen to look pretty—think only of The Social Network, Boogie Nights, and 24 Hour Party People.
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But the safe money is still on Iñárritu, because "The Revenant" has a clearer shot at best picture and because (like most of his films) it's directed within an inch of its life, with all kinds of complicated set pieces and unexpected camera angles.
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All of the traditional trappings of a documentary are absent — there's no voice-over, archival footage, context cards, or experts, and the footage is intercut with some over-the-top cinematic set pieces, including a JonBenét in angels' wings waltzing down an empty hall.
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Europe's original existentialist might have gone darker in Crime and Punishment, but he captures a larger universe here, from the portrait of a family whose members achieve Christly heights and Trumpian lows to cerebral set pieces that would blow most novellas out of the water.
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Maureen Ryan, Variety: Everything "Gilmore Girls" tries to pack in — the wit, the whimsy, the pop-culture references, the family conflict, the perfectly calibrated insults, the set pieces that go on a bit too long — can feel pretty pummeling at a 90-minute running time.
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Based on what I've seen and played so far, the game seems to have a similar mix of huge action set-pieces and quieter, weirder moments — I can only hope that come November I'll be able to bake a cake for the future king.
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Its plot is forgettable and I'd give all the money in my wallet to anyone who can name ten of its characters without looking it up, but its set pieces are the sort that lodge in the brain upon first viewing and never, ever leave.
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Our familiarity with even minor characters like Gendry the bastard blacksmith and whisky priest Thoros of Myr makes the mix-and-match structure of "Beyond the Wall," which balanced massive action set pieces and special effects with banter between its various odd couples, extremely satisfying.
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But what's on the line in these epic, expensive, cast-of-thousands set pieces is no less human: whether the kind of goodness that Ned Stark embodied and instilled in his children can have any place in a world shaped by injustice, cruelty, and opportunism.
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But the "main" series, the three PS3 releases, have played a little like present-day versions of the Indiana Jones movies before Shia LaBeouf showed up, possessing fast-paced plots and spectacular set-pieces, while all the time wearing a smile as the sparks fly.
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You are closer to the singers, though Jacopo Spirei's production, which originated at the Salzburg State Theater in 2016 for a new chamber version of the score, looks cramped and a little cheap: Cumbersome set pieces representing cliffs roll creakily on and off the stage.
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His account of how Americans responded to the publication of Darwin's great work in 1859 is organized as a series of lively and informative set pieces — dinners, conversations, lectures — with reactions to "On the Origin of Species" usually (but not always) at the center.
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The series, set during the time period covered by Lucas's 2000s "Star Wars" prequel movies, strikes a lighter tone than its blockbuster counterparts; it's a good choice for younger viewers, or those curious about creative "Star Wars" set pieces outside the confines of live action.
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In honor of those significant set pieces that made Friends what it was and still is — a series that makes us laugh, occasionally cry, and binge-watch for hours — we spoke to the show's production designer John Shaffner to uncover the story behind each item.
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That means seeing our favorite characters on The Simpsons turn into set pieces on movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark or become Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct or see how two cupcakes can be creatively used to recreate a NSFW scene in The Clockwork Orange.
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But as weird as the trailer is, with its blurry CGI fur, oversized set pieces, and completely literal, straight-faced commitment to the concept of singing cats, there's one very important thing you have to know: Judging by the trailer, this movie, relatively speaking, isn't that weird.
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He does some shots outside, but his favorite figures are about a foot tall and kind of expensive, so he built some sets in his studios "I now have shelves of props and large set pieces (a forest for one) just for my toy photos," he said.
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While the rest of the game witnessed Swansea trying to fully use their one-man advantage—due to a red card on Arsenal for a flagrant tackle on Barrow with 20 minutes to go—they just couldn't finish on a series of deadly chances and set pieces.
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He goes through the motions of giving us the big action-y set pieces we've come to expect from splashy summer sequels like these, but the sense of place he showed in Straight Outta Compton and the buzzy energy of Fate of the Furious are absent here.
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The episode featured all the usual set pieces for Trump's now-frequent censures of Obama: deflecting blame from questions about his own actions, boasts about the superiority of his response and a misleading or outright false claim about the man who held the job before him.
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Available on: Amazon Prime Instant Video Rise of the Tomb Raider: 24 Year Celebration True, Rise of the Tomb Raider isn't much of a leap from Uncharted 211.99: they're both dazzling adventure games that pair wild set pieces with hand-to-hand combat and light puzzle-solving.
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Alfonso Cuarón's intimate yet epic Roma, the story of a young maid and the fracturing family she works for in early-25s Mexico City, is a sweeping autobiographical film whose pellucid 250mm format and stunning set-pieces demand to be seen on the largest possible screen.
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This premise serves as the central plot conceit, ostensibly for the purpose of allowing Carmilla to make peace with her past but really so that The Carmilla Movie can put its heroines in corsets and stage elaborate Victorian set pieces — think less Dracula, more DeviantArt photo shoot.
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Along the way, entertaining set pieces, such as a visit to a demolition derby gone wrong, and an evening trading war stories with a group of older racecars headed by Doc Hudson's guru, a truck named Smokey (voiced by Chris Cooper), keep the story humming quite comfortably.
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This is a Hong Kong action picture in the classical mode, balancing mayhem with sentimentality, offering up bone-crunching and jaw-dropping set pieces, and pulling out all the stops for a finale teeming with stressful twists and turnabouts — not to mention kicks, punches, gunshots and explosions.
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Eight of England's 11 goals so far at the tournament in Russia have come from set-pieces, which is again credit to the work that has been put in by Southgate and his staff on the training ground on such a crucial aspect of the game.
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Where other alternate-history TV shows like The Man In The High Castle and The Handmaid's Tale tackle authoritarianism with action-packed set-pieces, and violence that can verge on torture porn, The Plot Against America finds its terror of creeping fascism in the domestic and mundane.
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Blending elements of the heist film, the road movie, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Nichols's film is a slow burn that metes out its set pieces frugally, but great performances from Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, and Joel Edgerton keep the flame bright throughout.
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To do that, it leans less on special effects and set pieces, more on a foreboding tone, and on the franchise's big, returning stars — James McAvoy as Professor Xavier, Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, plus "Game of Thrones" star Sophie Turner, who's returning as Jean Grey.
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His furious dispute with strike partner Edinson Cavani in September over the right to take set pieces reared its head again last month when the Brazilian refused to allow the Uruguayan to take a penalty against Dijon that would have made him the club's all-time top scorer.
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Universal Pictures showed off new footage from the spinoff at CinemaCon Wednesday, highlighting the chemistry between stars Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson; impressive action chops from series newcomers Vanessa Kirby and Idris Elba; the film's British and Polynesian settings; and a shit ton of explosive, physics-defying set pieces.
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The meat is the set pieces, among them a boat-terminal bust that goes awry in a blaze of bullets, a raucous cellblock free-for-all and a fracas in a well-appointed high-rise chamber in which Mr. Jaa and Mr. Wu tag-team on scores of assailants.
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Modern Warfare features big set-pieces in the region (including the detonation of a nuclear bomb in an unnamed Middle Eastern city), Modern Warfare 22007 ends in a hotel in the Middle East, and Black Ops II, though it takes place in the future, involves key scenes in Yemen.
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They'd attempted to imitate the shiny, captivating set-pieces of Cirque Du Solei but instead it had more in common with a mascot race at a minor league baseball game, or maybe a guy on the subway eating a gyro with one hand while he reads his Kindle.
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Composed by Frida Johansson and Henrik Oja, Unravel's score combines frenetic folk passages triggered by set-pieces, akin to Marcin Przybyłowicz's more dramatic loose-strings-and-palm-skins arrangements for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with gentler, reflective moments designed to lightly color the process of puzzle solving.
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In one of Brooks's sharp, well-paced panels, which juggle action set pieces with helter-skelter angles and onomatopoeic effects, Tallulah's Latina mother redoes her own hair band after teleporting herself, while in another, Sanity's African-American father interrupts his station-saving to make sure his daughter eats dinner.
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True, there has been no flawless performance, no marquee display to rival Croatia's win against Argentina or even Belgium's quarterfinal victory against Brazil; true, there has been a reliance on goals from set pieces; true, France has only ever edged through, rather than sweeping past clearly inferior opponents.
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Now, a new visual effects (VFX) breakdown from Industrial Light & Magic has shed more light on the process, while also offering a peek behind the curtain at some of the movie's other big set pieces such as Rey's leap over Kylo's TIE Silencer, or the film's final space battle.
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Jared Harris led a note-perfect cast, and Chernobyl's evocation of the grim slog that was thanklessly saving the world from nuclear disaster made for a series that never once blinked while staging enough, "How did they do that?" set pieces to make a surprisingly easy binge-watch.
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By the time he wrote "Brightness Falls," McInerney had been labelled a New York novelist, and, as if on cue, he delivers long, cinematic set pieces depicting everything from parties of the Upper East Side's rich and shallow to police raids on homeless encampments in the East Village.
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Instead they are tethered to psychotically specific set pieces — a mole who is displaced by construction work, a couple in Alaska who cook a beaver tail — and riddled with allusions to arcane inventions (dumbwaiters), exotic locales (rice paddies) and nightmarish images (an anthropomorphized sun with a zipperlike mouth).
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The Fate of the Furious looks, sounds, and acts like a Fast & Furious movie should in 2017, which is to say it's chock full of reality-defying action set pieces, ham-handed but sincere sentiment, and goofy, self-aware humor that helps sell its over-the-top approach.
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Modern Warfare features big set-pieces in the region (including the detonation of a nuclear bomb in an unnamed Middle Eastern city), Modern Warfare 29 ends in a hotel in the Middle East, and Black Ops II, though it takes place in the future, involves key scenes in Yemen.
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We can see as much thanks to two major set pieces in the episode: when the QPA team tries to figure out how to take down Cyrus or his conspirator Jack Ballard (Scott Foley), and Olivia's rousing Oval Office monologue when it becomes clear such a bacon-saving maneuver is impossible.
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One of the show's most critically acclaimed skirmishes — the Battle of the Goldroad in season 7, episode 4 — represents a radical shift away from historically inspired set pieces, and toward more conventional epic fantasy fare because it's the first time Dany deploys her dragons as a fully fledged weapons of war.
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In a film stuffed with set pieces, it's a punch-in-the-gut opener, framing (in the cinema release) the moment of Donnie waking up in the middle of a road on top of a mountain: the lifeless body jerking up, the dreamscape sunrise, the slow befuddled turn to the camera.
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Among science fiction films, Luc Besson's 1997 epic The Fifth Element enjoys special status as a classic that's unique among others in the category, with an indulgent, artistic flair and beautiful set pieces that differ dramatically from the more drab and worn environs of movies like Star Wars and Blade Runner.
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As they often do in "Mefistofele," the choral episodes — the ethereal Prologue and Epilogue and the raucous Witches' Sabbath — made the strongest impressions, even if those set pieces could have been built more inexorably by Carlo Rizzi, the conductor, who could also drive the sumptuous-sounding orchestra with even more focus.
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Friday the 13th became one of the iconic slasher series of all time by turning in an increasingly amped-up installments throughout the '80s, throughout which Jason became less of a figure of terror and more of a video-game character, juggernauting his way through films in series of escalatingly violent set-pieces.
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The film unfolds as a series of low-key set pieces and conversations along the way, culminating in Jafari's encounter with an actress who was once famous before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and now lives a quiet and secluded life in the village, away from those who disparage her for her former career.
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As thrilling as the game's collection of polygonized action film set pieces can be — like the crowded elevator, the high-rise meeting room, and goon-filled back alley — its arch plot boils down to a couple twists, and a lot of vague philosophizing about control being an illusion, particularly in video games.
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We rise and fall on the big action set pieces, and while there isn't anything as inventive as Fast Five's city chase with the cars dragging a giant safe or the batshit scene in Furious 7 when a car jumps from one skyscraper to another, the movie still gives us two jaw-droppers.
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Willfully over-the-top of action—Epic's Gears of War pedigree shines through in its blockbuster set-pieces—and singularly puerile of phallic funnies, it could have been one of gaming's greatest tonal miscalculations if it wasn't for the fact that it positively sings when all of its ingredients are mixed together.
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It is clear from the episodes and set pieces that she has read a lot of background material, absorbed what she has read, and selected both major and minor incidents to fictionalize, usually by adding an array of diverse and wildly interesting characters — bit players, to use Hollywood parlance — that achieve star status.
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The playwright, English-born but long a resident of New York, died in June at age 90, and one can hardly imagine a more fitting epitaph than an "Amadeus" that adds to the oracular strength of the writing — Sir Peter did like his set pieces — with a passion and vigor all its own.
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But what lingers in my memory of God of War are the set pieces — the moment the giant world serpent Jörmungandr appears, impossibly large and with an indescribably otherworldly voice, the fights with the immortal Baldur, the reveal of Freya's house, built on the back of a giant turtle in a vibrant grove.
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This is a bit of a mixed blessing; the father-son relationship McCall has with Miles in The Equalizer 2 lends itself to the personal touch that made the first Equalizer great, but it's debatable whether there are enough set pieces left that another film wouldn't push the franchise into Punisher territory.
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It could simply be that the prospect of turning a city's very recent and still-present trauma into something meant to sell tickets and entertain the masses — and make no mistake, Patriots Day is meant to be entertainment, what with its moments of humor and big explosive set pieces — is queasy business.
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Previous summits have ended with similar commitments to rid the Koreas of nuclear weapons, but none have featured such symbolic set pieces as were witnessed at the truce village of Panmunjom on Friday, which saw Kim and Moon shake hands at the border before addressing the world's media together at the end of the day.
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"Logan" also works in a few fantastic chase scenes later in the film, and again it doesn't feel like the film stops and takes a break for set pieces as so many superhero movies do—the action is organic to the story and the characters, much like "Mad Max: Fury Road" in that regard.
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After storming a French village, he merely says he's been coddling them, and now they have to really prove themselves… by going on a shopworn commando mission with British special forces that culminates in one of the game's few genuinely impressive set-pieces: a preposterous but undeniably breathtaking night-time street battle in Paris.
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Once April takes on child-care duties, there are a handful of slapstick set pieces (she and young Jordan tangle in the school parking lot, perform impromptu Mary J. Blige karaoke in a fancy restaurant, ogle a hot eighth-grade teacher played by Justin Hartley) but never the full zaniness that the actors deserve.
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Its most famous set-pieces, though, are more low-tech: the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, in which the lanky Rockettes fall, one after another, in a line, like dominos; a miniature version of the Central Park skating rink, complete with ice dancers; and the humble Living Nativity, featuring camels, sheep, and a donkey.
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Later on, though, it seems to show more superhero vibes in the tradition of the big and glossy Marvel cinematic universe, though leaning more toward Captain America: Winter Soldier than the big tent circus set pieces of the core Avengers lineup, or the wacky, neon glare of the Guardians franchise and the most recent Thor.
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Save for the young puppeteers, the performance is nearly identical to the one staged more than half a century ago, right down to the original wooden puppets, the ornate multicultural costumes, the gaudy set pieces, and the whimsical, Disney-esque musical numbers, all designed and directed by the theater's namesake mastermind, Bob Baker, who died in 2014.
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Many social media users interpreted the set pieces as representing cages meant to protest President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchiff: Bolton 'refused' to submit affidavit on Trump's involvement in Ukraine controversy Yang congratulates Romney for 'voting his conscious and character' in convicting Trump McConnell 'disappointed' by Romney impeachment vote, but 'I'm going to need his support' MORE's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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A handful of genuine set pieces, two of which (so far) led me to shout, startled by what I saw on my TV. In fact, there are too many to list here, and with only 20 or so hours in the game, I'm eager to see how it surprises me next, and whether this feeling of "risky contact" continues.
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If Die Hard set the arcade-game-like template for every lesser action movie that followed (put hero in inescapable situation that requires the progressive elimination of a series of bad guys; escalate set pieces accordingly), then Rickman's Hans Gruber is the template for every lesser bad guy to prowl bullet-riddled sets in a well-made suit.
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Where Happy Hour gets stretched is in a handful of set pieces that play out in virtual real-time: a New Age-y therapy session orchestrated by an enigmatic artist; a reading of a short story conducted by a diminutive woman in a flat, affectless voice; a conversation over drinks, a conversation over coffee, then another conversation over drinks.
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It's a mix of updated racist artifacts (segregated park benches and train cars, being stopped for literal "papers" in the year 2029) and melodramatic set pieces, the kind of world where you know augs are oppressed because the police are randomly beating them in the streets and pedestrians keep talking about how much they hate them.
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Every single one of these set pieces is a truly thrilling display of movement choreographed for the camera, executed with the same wit, verve, and creative energy that powered classic action sequences like the truck chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark, or the foot chase in (the original) Point Break, or the lobby shootout in The Matrix.
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As seen in: Carrie (Hood's old flame) versus Olek (her crime lord father's henchman) in "We Shall Live Forever" (season one, episode six) The series' biggest set pieces all carry the same signature: Namely, the moment that would be the coup de grace for any traditional fight scene is instead merely where things really get started.
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Read on for our staff recommendations on what to take in during your downtime: Doug Liman's last film, 2014's Tom Cruise–starring Edge of Tomorrow, was a fantastic slice of sci-fi action that featured a mind-fuckingly good central conceit, a bevy of explosive set pieces, and a brawny turn from the typically excellent Emily Blunt.
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Where La La Land finds romance with winking tributes to big Hollywood musicals of old, sparkly effects, a frothy energy, and huge set pieces, Guy and Madeline's romance comes from simpler, more true-to-life things: wandering around a park and humming, cleaning the windows of a New York oyster bar, eating stolen bread alone, and then wanting to dance.
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While Dark Phoenix manages a handful of memorable action set pieces (particularly a New York showdown and a sequence aboard a train), some big moments feel on loan from previous entries, including yet another slowed-down scene with super-speedster Quicksilver (Evan Peters) navigating a slowed-down world, and a showcase for Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) to use his teleportation abilities.
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A small section of the bar was converted to the GWAR Pub, a transition that was made easier by the music collective bringing their own iconic set pieces to D.C. from Richmond, VA. There's the late band leader Oderus Urungus's bloody battle armor, a razor-toothed toilet, and the 20-foot World Maggot they've used to "murder" celebrities like Jerry Springer onstage.
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That movie, one of the best action movies of the last 20 years, is a kinetic spectacle of set-pieces, and though it helps knowing "that's really Tom Cruise doing that" while rolling around the outside of the Burj Khalifa, Ghost Protocol works because the action is so creative; Bird's background in animated movies like The Incredibles had an obvious impact.
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The very opening scene even suggests that we ignore the overly ambitious set pieces of season seven for the time being, and instead remember the humble roots of the pilot: a little boy climbing a tree to spot the Unsullied, Dothraki, and mother of dragons marching into Winterfell—a throwback to wall climbing Bran, who spied on the royal caravan in season one.
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She came up with the idea after studying film at New York University in the hopes of being a producer, and was shocked by how much waste there was on sets: plastic water bottles littering sets, trays of uneaten catering food getting dumped into the trash, and entire custom-built set pieces getting loaded into dumpsters after a production wraps.
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Dark Fate works overtime to deliver the spectacle you'd expect from a movie like this, galloping from one shootout or fistfight to the next, but fails to consider that these set pieces might hit harder if we were ever allowed a beat to figure out why we should be invested in the first place — to get to know these people, to follow through on these themes.
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Dario Argento's Giallo masterpiece about a ballet studio serving as a front for a coven of witches is a smorgasbord of fantastic horror set pieces and bloody deaths; it features more red than Argento's movie Deep Red, and it boasts one of the best scores in horror film history, one of the best animal kills, and the most badass group of dancing sorceresses ever.
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It's also a showcase for a series of impeccable action set pieces: a stage-setting opening in which Mr. Incredible has to stop a bomb-wielding villain and save the civilians on an elevated train; a high-velocity escape from an island hideout; an extended finale in which the entire family has to work together to stop a robot bent on massive urban destruction.
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The plot of The Lost Village is more or less The Lord of the Rings, but instead of saving Hobbiton from the armies of Mordor, our heroes' journey is not all that perilous, full of weird and funnish little set pieces, and laden with montages (presumably to extend the runtime), and concludes with a big dance party to the new Meghan Trainor song (titled "I'm a Lady").
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Middleditch's Richard went from being a naïve but brilliant company founder to a budding backstabbing CEO; Miller's Bachmann earned and lost a couple fortune's and demonstrated that he does have feelings despite constantly being stoned; Woods's Jared became creepily devoted to Richard and emerged as one of the funniest characters in all of TV. The show also turned out plenty of incredible, absurdly involved set pieces, which have become its speciality.
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Despite the pomp, the grand set pieces of the summit were something of a letdown; media access was extremely limited (Trump even seemed to expect a sympathetic ear in Kim, a man whose country has no independent media whatsoever, when complaining about US journalists), and at times, reporters who had traveled thousands of miles were forced to crowd around TV screens with low volumes, straining to hear what was being said.
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To bolster the warnings the official news agency churns out pictures of the dictator, Kim Jong Un, in military set pieces: Mr Kim giving launch orders at a satellite centre (with an ash tray in view); Mr Kim in a fur hat guiding a simulated ballistic missile re-entry; Mr Kim in the conning tower of a steaming submarine (South Korean intelligence recently reported that one of the North's submarines had sunk, for unclear reasons).
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Video, however, can help avoid some of the situations that led Moss into a fire pit: several appeals for penalties that were not assessed; a second yellow and subsequent red card to Vardy for diving; sumo-style grappling in the penalty area and on set pieces, with the sort of hand-to-hand combat in which the aggressor and the aggrieved are typically indistinguishable; and then, in the end, a penalty shot for Leicester.
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Food and drink are as much a constant on Goddard's runways as her signature voluminous tulle dresses, and often used as props or as part of set pieces: During her spring 2016 show, models stood at steel work tables with loafs of white bread and jars of jelly, making sandwiches; her fall 2017 show at the Tate Modern took inspiration from a drunken dinner party, complete with bottles upon bottles of red wine.
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But, because The Center Will Not Hold is a documentary, it's also worth returning to what Didion actually wrote about the case in her essay "Sentimental Journeys": The imposition of a sentimental, or false, narrative on the disparate and often random experience that constitutes the life of a city or a country means, necessarily, that much of what happens in that city or country will be rendered merely illustrative, a series of set pieces, or performance opportunities.
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The pair's designated space in the biennial is titled Out of Site and features three of their most iconic interventions in Detroit: the Mothership, which serves as a DJ booth and psychic transport for the members of the O.N.E. Mile project; a series of collapsible set pieces often used as the backdrop for performances by Detroit Afrikan Music Institution; and a modular decorative gateway that can be affixed to the façade of any building where the Detroit Culture Council gathers.
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"I don't care for plot at all," she replied when a friend dismissed her favorite Fitzgerald story, "The Rich Boy," as "formless"; certainly Adams's stories tend to proceed as a series of evocative, loosely ordered set pieces, impressions — or better just call them memories ("I really have no imagination at all," she said, "just a terrific memory") — revolving around the author's childhood in Chapel Hill (often called Hilton in the stories), college at Radcliffe and later years in San Francisco.
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