Narratives often centre on historical epics featuring dynastic royalty, concubines, deities and supernatural creatures.
He has helped bring French historic epics such as "Napoleon" and "Germinal" to life.
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They recount Islamic and Gnostic poems and epics containing mythological, historical or legendary themes.
And the truth is that most actual mythologies and epics and sacred books are dull.
Epics evolved over many centuries, and reflect nomadic lifestyles, social behaviours, religion, mentalities and imagination.
When you actually read the Ossian epics, you find that they are shaped entirely to neoclassical tastes.
There's a wide range of genres, from Broadway-style musicals to traditional epics, and each has a growing following.
Historical epics were still favoured by the Academy, Mel Gibson's Braveheart won best film and best director in 1996.
With The Seven Samurai and other feudal epics, Kurosawa was accused of peddling the samurai tradition as exotica for Westerners.
The ensuing festivities combine merrymaking with the chanting of traditional Qiang epics by the shibi, singing and the drinking of wine.
But rather like those fondly remembered epics of Hollywood past, it's got enough energy and entertainment value to carry the day.
Through the epics, Mongolians transmit their historical knowledge and values to younger generations, strengthening awareness of national identity, pride and unity.
Chhau dance is a tradition from eastern India that enacts episodes from epics including the Mahabharata and Ramayana, local folklore and abstract themes.
Some Bulgarian families now even name their children after characters in such sugary epics as a 100-episode love story of Mehmet and Indji.
Imagine a cross between a Homeric rhapsode, chanting one of the epics in front of a roaring fire, and the blues singer Muddy Waters.
One of the three major epics of China , it is both an outstanding artistic creation and an oral encyclopaedia of the Kirgiz people.
The match lasted five hours and two minutes, the latest in a long line of tennis epics by this generation of fast-moving, heavy topspin hitters.
In the Superman epics, the public often turn against their hero.
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The director, Edward Zwick, attempting to revive the stately manner of sixties epics, has made a very earnest piece of work handsome, methodical, pious, and rather doggedly literal.
Indian Epics are no short of such stories of magnanimity.
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And while game studios spending millions grinding out futuristic or violent epics have to rely on distribution via store shelves and online retailers like Amazon.com, casual game developers have more options.
The Mongolian Tuuli is an oral tradition comprising heroic epics that run from hundreds to thousands of lines and combine benedictions, eulogies, spells, idiomatic phrases, fairy tales, myths and folk songs.
Epics are performed during many social and public events, including state affairs, weddings, a child's first haircut, the ''naadam'' (a wrestling, archery and horseracing festival) and the worship of sacred sites.
The story focuses on character and plot more than many Chinese epics do, and its presentation is modern, using slow-mo fight replays and computer-animated anatomy sequences to illustrate the forensic detective work.
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As a light-hearted comedy, it contrasts with the historical epics and action flicks that make up most of China's domestic film releases, says Liv Yi, an analyst at Beijing-based entertainment industry consultancy Entgroup.
The historian Robert Darnton compares the oral tale tellers to the Yugoslavian bards studied in the twentieth century by Albert Lord and Milman Parry, in the effort to understand how the Homeric epics were composed.
Hopkins first worked with director Peter Jackson on his 1992 movie Braindead, and was also part of Jackson's team for Heavenly Creatures and The Frighteners as well as the three Lord of the Rings epics.
From the huddled masses lining up outside theaters months before a movie opening, to the convention centers filled with adults in polyester jump suits, nothing inspires the fervent fandom of these, the galaxy's greatest space epics.
Gaiman, whose honors include the Newbery Medal for children's writing, the Hugo for science-fiction and fantasy and a Carnegie Medal in literature, has written fantasy epics "Neverwhere" and "American Gods" and the groundbreaking graphic-novel series "The Sandman, " among other works.
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