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So what movie kicked off the insert scenes randomly throughout the movie??
Posted on 3/13/17 at 6:30 am
Posted on 3/13/17 at 6:30 am
It seems like in the 20 years this has become the norm. Start a movie one way then flashback randomly throughout to get to where current scene is explained. I keep thinking pulp fiction was the first movie that i remember seeing this type of format. Seems like many movies now do this. Nothing wrong with it but before that it just seemed movies started the build and didnt jump around so much. Am i wrong in this thinking or has this been going on before the last 20 years?
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Posted on 3/13/17 at 6:46 am to FLObserver
Just thinking about Tarantino didn't he also do this with Reservoir Dogs? The flashbacks showing how each member got to the warehouse. I know he borrowed a lot from City on Fire but I haven't seen that in over 20 years so I can't recall if City on Fire also uses flashbacks setting up the story.
Posted on 3/13/17 at 7:42 am to FLObserver
Here is a good article about that but it leave off Rashamon, which i always thought was the best but may not meet the nonlinear format:
Some really good stuff
Some really good stuff
Posted on 3/13/17 at 8:21 am to rebelrouser
Theres an actual name for it nonlinear format 
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I would say there is a lot more of it these days though.
Good to know that it has been used in the past.
. I would say there is a lot more of it these days though.
Good to know that it has been used in the past.
Posted on 3/13/17 at 9:08 am to FLObserver
Pulp Fiction was certainly not the first movie to do it, but it was certainly the first to popularize it. It was the first I'd seen in that style and it absolutely blew me away. I was 10 or 11 and my favorite movie at that point was like Mummy Returns or some shite I had asked my dad to give me some of his favorite movies and he have me a list that included PF, I just remember thinking "sounds gay." Managed to catch it one night a few weeks later on the movie channels and it just blew my mind. I watched it like 4x that month and still look at that as the moment I realized what a "good movie" was.
I had asked my dad to give me some of his favorite movies and he have me a list that included PF, I just remember thinking "sounds gay." Managed to catch it one night a few weeks later on the movie channels and it just blew my mind. I watched it like 4x that month and still look at that as the moment I realized what a "good movie" was. 
Posted on 3/13/17 at 12:56 pm to FLObserver
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