What better way to tell a story about a puppet in a world where everybody behaves like puppets, than with actual puppets? Especially to show that even in a world populated by puppets, where uniformity of thought is mandated by the fascist regime, Pinocchio is still an anomaly? “The conceit behind fascism is the darkest interpretation of a father figure,” said Del Toro.
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The writers have a lot of fun with the conceit of this supposed seventh sequel, with the trailer’s narrator unsure whether the accent Short’s Franck character uses is “still okay” and forgetting (along with the rest of us) that Succession star Kieran Culkin was in those movies as well.
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Here, Charrier does so with such subtlety that only when you discover the central conceit in the end that you notice those details.
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The show’s whirligig satire seems to gain momentum by sending up its very environs, a series of sketches built around a recurring conceit wherein Cooper, in drag as a flight attendant named Peaches, desperately tries to coordinate the onboarding for a government-funded flight taking Black Americans back to Africa.
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The film employs its magical conceit as a multi-purpose metaphor for a long-term relationship.
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And it’s an altogether chattier video, the conceit being that McKellen has now joined Abba.
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It's a whole other beast to make a film that is so unique in its conceit and execution that it more than holds its own against the source material.
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The conceit of Ruby Trax was that contemporary artists would be covering classic number one songs from the previous 40 years.
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The meta TV moments make “Spoiler Alert” more interesting to watch, and help to illustrate our protagonist’s mindset, but you almost wish the filmmakers took the conceit further.
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The overlap includes actors doing dual duty in past and present narratives, and the conceit works well to reinforce recurring motifs.
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(No word on whether she’ll reprise her role from the original film—or, for that matter, whether the film will maintain the musical’s conceit of casting the part of Cady and Regina’s moms, and Fey’s old role, helpful teacher Ms.
Source: The A.V. Club
, could be barbecue buddies of the Pritchett clan of “Modern Family,” which is the show’s central conceit and conflict.
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“The conceit was that through a cosmic quirk in the Star Trek world, they were the same age.
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Where else can you find legendary Hong Kong director John Woo and stars Nicolas Cage and John Travolta combining their own distinctive brands of excess in one movie? Combine that with the totally ludicrous face-swapping conceit that gets it all going, and it's no wonder the Washington Post called it "one of the strangest stories to ever get the green light at a Hollywood studio.
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Risky Road has a conceit that is nearly the same as indie developer Owlchemy Labs’ Smuggle Truck.
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Its books-within-books conceit is twisty and treacherous, and taken together its many stories read like an encyclopedia whose every entry is at its heart a story of intimate betrayal.
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Mikheev has spoken of "the purported necessity of 'denazification' and 'demilitarisation' of Ukraine" and promoted "the Russkiy Mir [Russian World] ideology", they added, referring to a Kremlin conceit of a clash of civilisations between Eurasia and the West.
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Hell, even the conceit of Santa fighting off bad guys in bloody fashion was done a couple of years ago in the weirdo project "Fatman," in which Mel Gibson's version of Santa fights off an assassin hired by a monstrously entitled brat who objected to receiving a lump of coal.
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This conceit further points to Fincher’s familiarity with special effects, as such a look requires the shooting of the original footage in color and isolating specific elements in post production.
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It would have been easy to turn “Reboot” into a “Modern Family”-style mockumentary given its conceit, but the fact that Levitan and Enbom resisted that urge is honestly refreshing.
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The overlap includes actors doing dual duty in past and present narratives, and the conceit works well to reinforce recurring motifs.
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This whole conceit of transparency is infinitely fun, and sets up for genuine shock and surprise near the end of the play when the production pulls out some unexpected design wizardry.
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The overlap includes actors doing dual duty in past and present narratives, and the conceit works well to reinforce recurring motifs.
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12 | Given all that happened this week on This Is Us, do you think the actual finale — beyond the expected funeral — will be a series of Dan Fogelman rug pulls, or simply flash forwards to what happened to everyone? Of all the Easter eggs in the penultimate hour, was Adult Randall doing pushups with Young Randall on his back the sweetest of all? And did we blink and miss her, or was Teenage Kate the only one of the Big 3’s younger counterparts not aboard the train?
13 | Is this really the best Chicago Med could do on this photoshop job of Ethan’s dad?
14 | If the title and conceit of the show is Who Killed Sara?, shouldn’t the title character be dead?
15 | Would The Flash have us believe that Barry did not realize that his wife had not come home/had not been in bed all night long?
16 | Would you say The Goldbergs’ CGI has gotten better or worse since Erica’s wedding?
17 | Is this the first time, in over 300 episodes between Roseanne and The Conners, that we’ve seen the fourth wall? And did the Powers That Be not think we’d notice that Ben’s mom Barb (played in Season 3 by Candice Bergen) wasn’t in attendance for his wedding?
18 | Now that Survivor‘s Maryanne can take credit for knocking out one of the season’s biggest threats, does she have a convincing enough argument to win the game? And were you surprised that zero immunity idols were played at the Final 6 Tribal?
19 | Is Evil doing Biscuits with the Boss?
20 | Did Station 19 pass up a chance for a lot of conflict by having Travis break up with Emmett before deciding to run for mayor against his father?
21 | Grey’s Anatomy fans, knowing that Grey Sloan is full of capable surgeons, would Meredith really turn around on her way out the door to miss her dinner party by treating a patient being wheeled into the ER? Did she feel like all the hotshots were already at her house, or what?
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The conceit is that we’re watching a 1940s radio station present a live broadcast of a dramatization of “It’s a Wonderful Life.
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The conceit of Ruby Trax was that contemporary artists would be covering classic number one songs from the previous 40 years.
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Academics increasingly are being encouraged to announce their race, sex, gender identity, social class, and disability status under the conceit that this personal information is germane to a scientific appraisal of their scholarship.
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A tricky film to advertise without revealing its conceit — even its distributors have largely avoided disclosing the nature of Justin Long’s role — Barbarian plays like a midnight festival darling, bucking expectations while maintaining artistic finesse.
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And a mighty big cast, too, because the movie includes the men who are only mentioned in the play, abandoning not only the play's all-female format but its conceit of setting the whole story in the beauty parlor.
Source: Seven Days
But one conceit of the series that was a signature of its stories was the regular team-ups with other heroes, with nearly every episode featuring a guest appearance from one of DC Comics' pantheon of comic book superheroes.
Source: Looper
This unlikely pairing is the crux of Matthew Bourne’s production (which premiered in 2012) and the conceit actually makes sense: if Aurora is trapped in an enchanted sleep for 100 years, how is her true love going to wait it out? A spot of immortality should do it.
Source: The Guardian
It’s a conceit that leads to a very memorable scene in which a long line of people are inexplicably seen walking the wrong way.
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The conceit of the Temporal Crisis (the name for the never-ending crisis caused by the temporal anomaly) allows for multiple variations of Star Trek characters to show up in your crew quarters.
Source: Review Geek
This all sets the scene for the outrageous central conceit of "Face/Off:" With the clock ticking, Archer must undergo a face-swap transplant with Castor and infiltrate a maximum security prison to extract the location of the bomb from Pollux.
Source: /Film
The meta TV moments make “Spoiler Alert” more interesting to watch, and help to illustrate our protagonist’s mindset, but you almost wish the filmmakers took the conceit further.
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
But the conceit of a music movie that contains little music of its own offers unique complications for those looking to cobble together an official soundtrack.
Source: WRTI
This is not an environment like the conventional modern theater space, designed to reinforce the conceit of an invisible fourth wall that divides the onstage universe from the world of the audience.
Source: Louisville Eccentric Observer (LEO Weekly)
The conceit is simple: Friesen listens to Infowars broadcasts and then breaks them down for the benefit of Holmes, who doesn’t.
Source: The New York Times
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