FILM 1000 Chapter 2: Understanding Movies
20 Sep 2016
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Film week 3 understanding movies - story pg. Narratives are composed in order to reward, modify, frustrate, or defeat the perceiver"s search for coherence david bordell. Narratives usually rearrange story events in fairly unobtrusive ways, providing info. From the past only when we need it to understand what is happening. Flashbacks = most obvious way movies provide information from the past (an iris or a dissolve are examples of cues for the audience that a flashback is beginning) Formalistic narrative: more manipulative, sometimes scrambling the events order etc. Classic narrative: telling the important stuff, etc. Diegetic world = what is possible, probable, not likely etc. in the film. Realistic narratives: realistic and formalistic narratives both have patterns but the realistic story teller tries to hide them (make it more lifelike) Formalistic narratives: time is often scrambled and rearranged to enforce a point for forcefully. Adaptation: many movies are adaptations of literary sources.
