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In Reply to: Three excellent films with narration pop right into my head. posted by dennzio on April 19, 2004 at 11:07:22:
I think becomes twice the film when you watch it while pretending the narration isn't there. Take the opening. Everything the narrator describs is exactly what is happening on screen. Why do we need him? That he leads a sad, suburban existence and that he's wearied by it is clear. The narration adds nothing to that film, as far as I'm concerned, apart from "brightening" it. Take the narrator out and it becomes much more dark and the ending more unsettling.I think narration serves Apocolypse Now well. To provide the same information to the viewers dramatically instead would have been unmangeable, would have required dramatic exchanges contrived purely for exposition.
I need to revisit Platoon.
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- American Beauty - Bulkington 11:27:28 04/19/04 (4)
- Disagreement about the narration in AB. - tinear 18:23:05 04/19/04 (1)
- Perhaps - Bulkington 06:40:28 04/20/04 (0)
- Re: American Beauty - dennzio 16:24:29 04/19/04 (1)
- Re: Apocalypse Now - rico 07:54:08 04/20/04 (0)
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