In other words, the mid-life crisis is a fable - but we all love fables, don't we?
This compact crystallization of fable and reality is as ample as a full-length feature.
The garish filigree of the gonzo director, Terry Gilliam, surrounds this fable of redemption with pseudo-originality.
Astonishingly, Hess turns this fable-like premise into a juvenile but grand-scale vision of earth and heaven.
Put it all together, and Fable: The Journey is boring, repetitive, inaccurate, and unchallenging.
Steve Jackson went on to found Lionhead Studios, which created the Fable series of video games.
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And China is more tortoise than rabbit (though we know who wins the race in that fable).
Black and White was fantastic, Fable was a good start and Fable 2 improved on its predecessor.
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You learn about magic from Theresa of the Spire, a mysterious character from the previous Fable games.
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Fable: The Journey has all the same concerns that have plagued Kinect titles: poor recognition and inaccurate aim.
In fable elephants are afraid of mice, but in reality they seem to be more afraid of insects.
Like the boy in the cry-wolf fable, you just get to a point where no one believes you.
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At the Sydney retrospective, Guan has taken his fable further through an installation, Reforming the Desert: A Plan.
In the fable of Americanism, the middle class is our great source of economic, social, and political stability.
Most cultures would endorse that principle, which is why this apparently exotic fable should strike echoing chords worldwide.
Miyazaki has fashioned a complex ecological fable about the conflict between industrial progress and nature, town and countryside.
The director Walter Hill set this sizzling rock-and-roll fable in a mythical Everymetropolis.
The result, despite the modern setting, is a strangely old-fashioned fable, with a redeeming innocent thrown among evil men.
Like all Fable games, it has moments of true comedy and genuine emotion.
So we built them up but we have to set aside the comforting fable that we built them up.
Wes Anderson, creator of the rascally stop-motion fable "Fantastic Mr. Fox", turns out to be born to make animated films.
But the all time whopper of calculated deception that Obama tells is the fable of the Great Hustler Warren Buffett.
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He wants, in a word, to desacralize the story, make it less of a fable and more of a history.
It is a way to reflect the mood of the soul and most dishes have either a health-giving benefit or fable behind one.
That is, of course, the punch line to the Aesop fable about the slow, compact tortoise and the sleek, swifter hare.
What begins as an alluring fable ends as a full-on modernist nightmare.
You have to be of a certain age to remember the actual door-to-door salesmen of joke and fable, because times have changed.
Two years ago Mr Molyneux famously apologised to games fans for promising features in Fable which never materialised in the finished product.
Mr. Hosseini made up the dark fable to give a thematic foundation to the novel, which explores exile, self-sacrifice and complex sibling relationships.
It seems that the marketing for the film, a fable by Dr. Seuss about the need to protect the environment, did its job.
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