Bordwell and Thompson - Narrative as Formal System

Bordwell and Thompson - Narrative as Formal System

Everything we do is a story that I didn’t even know about. Telling a joke or talking about what I did yesterday is a story. So, does that make me a narrator? Because I’m telling a story of what I or somebody else did and giving a seer of events. But aides all that, personally I didn’t expect the narrator to be a major part in movies, stories, documents etc. The way I use to see the narrator is just a person that mumbles about stuff but, actuals puts input to the story and gives a feel to the viewer. Also, I never really understood why some movies start right into the middles of action then cuts to the beginning where it starts inducing charters or some problem. But know I get it. It gets me thinking on how the story is going to play out. It does leave me at this cliffhanger where I want to see more but explains what happens before it gets to that situation. But down fall of that is how some movies give you enough information on what’s going on and what’s going to happen at the end and kind of kills the fun of trying to figure on what’s happing next. What intrigues the most is how the “Narrative as a Formal System” is setup. It reminds me how I wrote essays in high school, which is a good thing. I’m thinking that it won’t be very hard just challenging to setup the story line because you got to give what the views want that’s understandable and not anything that just out of this world. Overall the passage had me thinking about how it’s just more than putting an actor down with a camera, it more than that. I didn’t think that making a film would take so much effort to make because they have to think about it, write about it, invest in it, a much more. So the next time I watch a movie, I’ll be highly grateful fro a person to take the time to make it.