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re: What’s your opinion on movies that have narration
Posted on 5/5/23 at 10:47 am to upgrade
Posted on 5/5/23 at 10:47 am to upgrade
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The Sandlot
“Michael Squints Palledorous walked a little taller that day. And we had to tip our hats to him. He was lucky she hadn’t beat the crap out of him. We wouldn’t have blamed her. What he’d done was sneaky, rotten, and low….. and cool. Not another one among us would have ever in a million years for a million dollars have the guts to put the move on the lifeguard. He did. He had kissed a woman. And he had kissed her long and good. We got banned from the pool forever that day. But every time I walked by after that, the lifeguard looked down from her tower, right over at Squints, and smiled.”
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Posted on 5/5/23 at 10:59 am to upgrade
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:26 am to upgrade
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Shawshank Redemption
I try to make my inner voice sound like Morgan Freeman so I will listen to it more
Posted on 5/5/23 at 12:00 pm to texn
Rocky Horror Picture Show count since he's occasionally on screen?
Posted on 5/5/23 at 3:44 pm to upgrade
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What’s your opinion on movies that have narration
...and God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.
Just kidding, Adaptation knocks it out the park
Posted on 5/5/23 at 6:52 pm to upgrade
I like narration. You forgot Raising Arizona.
Posted on 5/5/23 at 9:46 pm to upgrade
Good topic. I never liked Goodfellas as much as most people and only recently did I realize that it was the narration that I didn’t like. It’s not that I’m opposed to narration altogether but i can only rank a movie so high that has a traditional narrator style.
There are movies where the narration is more of a creative device than a means of moving the plot along and I generally appreciate it more in those instances. Fight Club is a great example.
There are movies where the narration is more of a creative device than a means of moving the plot along and I generally appreciate it more in those instances. Fight Club is a great example.
This post was edited on 5/5/23 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 5/5/23 at 10:01 pm to VinegarStrokes
quote:My only problem with Scorsese. Big blocks of his catalogue are built on narration.
Casino is like 75% narration lol
Posted on 5/5/23 at 10:12 pm to VinegarStrokes
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Casino is like 75% narration lol
There used to be a stigma about it...cheap filmmaking, if you need narration to tell the story instead of the camera. Show don't tell, it's The Civil War by Ken Burns. Its called moving pictures.
Casino doesn't just have narration but two characters at the same time telling the audience what they did and why they did it while they're doing it...with liberal use of why they're doing...DeNiro: "so I'm thinking Nicky", etc. Pesci: " Now, I know Ace is thinking."
But narration for the most part works for long timeline movies.
Never minded it. Scorsese sure loves it for his book to film movies.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 6:24 am to Summerchild
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use of his prose is beneficial, if not critical, to the story. That is the case with a lot of movies based on books.
No Country for Old Men opens with narration by Tommy Lee Jones, and closes with him doing a monologue that might as well be narration. And it's exactly what Cormac McCarty wrote in the book. The Coens had the sense to stick to McCarty's story and prose very closely.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 7:33 am to beaverfever
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. I never liked Goodfellas as much as most
How is it even possible to not like Goodfellas?
Posted on 5/6/23 at 7:49 am to upgrade
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but I actually have trouble thinking of a movie that features narration that I actually dislike.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 8:42 am to jlovel7
This is one of those takes that’s meant to generate responses but Simmons and the other babies on his pod would never admit to such low brow fishing.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:07 am to brewhan davey
How the west was won. Spencer Tracy narrated.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 7:11 pm to OlGrandad
The Road Warrior
Posted on 5/6/23 at 7:13 pm to upgrade
It’s a pretty lazy storytelling mechanic. By the end of casino I was begging Deniro to shut the frick up
Only time I’ve seen it used tastefully is the way it’s done in NCFOM at the beginning. Sets the stage tonally and then bows out
Only time I’ve seen it used tastefully is the way it’s done in NCFOM at the beginning. Sets the stage tonally and then bows out
This post was edited on 5/6/23 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:05 pm to 88Wildcat
Double post
This post was edited on 5/6/23 at 9:21 pm
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:08 pm to DMagic
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My favorite Wes Anderson movie has narration throughout and I’m pretty sure the rewatchable pussies like it too
GBH is one of my favorite movies of all time and for the life of me I can remember if F Murray Abraham is narrating the whole time or just at the beginning and end.
This post was edited on 5/6/23 at 9:08 pm
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:18 pm to 88Wildcat
quote:Seems like I remember finding out the narrator was the boomerang kid doesn't come until the end of the movie. That one is necessary to tell how things got the way they are. He sets the tone for the whole movie.He also tells about the future.
The Road Warrior
Another narrator that is a adult version of a kid in the movie is Adult Scout letting us know how everyone felt about each other in To Kill a Mockingbird. Adult Scout explained things that the kids themselves might not completely understand. I wonder if that helped them with using two kids that had never acted as Jim and Scout?
I like both of those.
This post was edited on 5/6/23 at 9:25 pm
Posted on 5/6/23 at 9:25 pm to chinese58
The original movie release of Blade Runner with Harrison Ford Narrating was solid.
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