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Gaps, in a traditional narrative, makes the audience asks questions and think beyond the film’s climax, and is used as cues for the viewer to act upon. The film Memento breaks that classical narrative by having the film move backwards, giving the ending at the start, and start at the end. This creates numerous types of gaps within the film. Memento uses temporary and flaunted gaps throughout the film, prompted by compositional, transtextual, and artistic motivation.

While the plot tries to tell a compelling tale with many intriguing ideas, unfortunately, the combination of the various genres, several plotlines, and the series of events make for a convoluted, and often, challenging plotline to follow.

The 1998 German film Run Lola Run interestingly told three separate narratives of the same story and characters. Each of the narratives began the same way, however each one saw a slight temporal or behavioral difference in the lives of Lola and Manni, which caused drastically different outcomes for each of the separate realities. The film followed Lola and Manni’s journey to acquire one-hundred thousand dollars to make up for Manni’s loss of the money to his drug dealer. The same story was told three separate times, and each story illustrated slight changes in the characters’ timelines that drastically shifted the outcome of their situations. Through the use of editing, the film was able to jump through time and space and clearly portray the transition from one run to the next. The film also had a fast rhythm that captured the frantic nature and peril of Lola and Manni’s situation, with innovative editing techniques such as showing the two shots of Manni and Lola side by side. Altogether, the transitions were effective in telling the story with a unique, and clear sequencing pattern that made sense and contributed to the thrilling atmosphere of the film.

looks at how the director choose to introduce the situation the characters face, the conflict that happens and the resolution of the story.

Plot is very important to a story, novel, or even movies. It helps to make object of the story plain to the reader, and make it as enjoyable to the reader as the author wanted it to be. Plot starts out with an introduction of sorts then runs into the rising action, followed by the main point of the story, then the exposition. When that is over the falling action occurs and finally, the resolution of the story. Willa Cather expresses this very intently in his story “The Sentimentality of William Tavener.” He draws the reader in with a man that is strict with his son and wife who are worthy to participate in the circus in town. Willa tells of the wife trying to convince her husband to allow them to go. Then he surprises the

Each film has a distinct purpose associated with it. Whether this purpose is as simple as teaching children a valuable lesson or as complex as criticizing a society 's barriers, there are explicit goals which must be discerningly conveyed. There are specific elements to filmmaking which are designed to contribute to the goals set forth when making a film. Such elements include what would be considered "aesthetics of astonishment," or striking images, editing conflict and other techniques associated with montage filmmaking. Each of these techniques imprint a thought or logic on a film – a kind of "watermark" – that pushes the film itself towards the accomplishment of the original goals. Regardless of the need for the completion of these

Whenever books are adapted for film, changes inevitably have to be made. The medium of film offers several advantages and disadvantages over the book: it is not as adept at exploring the inner workings of people - it cannot explore their minds so easily; however, the added visual and audio capabilities of film open whole new areas of the imagination which, in the hands of a competent writer-director, can more than compensate.

The only real way to truly understand a story is to understand all aspects of a story and their meanings. The same goes for movies, as they are all just stories being acted out. In Thomas Foster's book, “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”, Foster explains in detail the numerous ingredients of a story. He discusses almost everything that can be found in any given piece of literature. The devices discussed in Foster's book can be found in most movies as well, including in Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic, “Pulp Fiction”. This movie is a complicated tale that follows numerous characters involved in intertwining stories. Tarantino utilizes many devices to make “Pulp Fiction” into an excellent film. In this essay, I will demonstrate how

Behind every great movie, comes a storyline that is derived from a book however, most of the books to the movies have a great number of deviations. The screenwriters and other staff members to include the director come up with these deviations to enhance the plot in the attempt to make it a more interesting film to which in turn can make a better profit. The majority of differences that is found in films main objective is to enhance the mind. For example, when a scene has the ability to get a particular feeling out of a viewer, it is imperative to be able to understand the reasons for those feelings. The dialog and the visual effects of a scene sets a tone that differs from that of the book that it was taken from. Also, screen writers and

A set of practices concerning the narrative structure compose the classical Hollywood Paradigm. These conventions create a plot centering around a character who undergoes a journey in an attempt to achieve some type of goal (). By giving the

This screenplay can be considered to fall into multiple different genres, such as crime, thriller, suspense, western, drama, action and adventure. In many of these genres, there is a ‘hero’ and a ‘villain’

Many films based on historical events set out to not only inform the viewer of the details surrounding that event but also provide them with the feeling of being a part of it. Directors often accomplish this by using such techniques as character development and narration; as a result they provide an insight into what many of the characters are personally experiencing.

Because we were asked to do a formal analysis, I did not need to provide a summary that introduced the film’s plot or specific scene. Instead I went straight into my analysis, “The director uses parallel editing to build suspense, making us believe Ellen’s end is coming quicker than we expected.” I show that I know how to use Outcome One because I do not explain what parallel editing is and I do not introduce Ellen to the audience. Because the paper asks to evaluate the techniques used in the film, neither of those aspects are necessary to construct a successful paper. In this paper, I prove I am aware of my audience by not admitting unnecessary

Plot is the story line were events come together to bring about a certain outcome.

The plot or sequence of a story is the order in which events in a story take place and how these events are related to one another. The integral components of a plot include: the exposition, the climax, the conflict and the resolution.