Weekly reading - Response - Quynh Thu Ly

               Hello, my name is Quynh Thu Ly. I used to read a few knowledge about making movies and steps to build up a story but I think this reading (narrative as a formal system) has given to me the most detailed and useful information. It explains and analyses carefully about differences between plot and story, which is usually misunderstood by a lot of filmmakers. Moreover, examples have shown that there are actually many principle elements that will help building up a story more completely, including times, spaces, actions, etc. We can use those elements creatively to make our movies more interesting and attract people. One of my favorite movie is “Gone Girl”, which has the greatest and the most surprising twist ever. This movie does not follow the normal time flow and it also messes all the events up, which makes viewer really confused and then finally everybody is surprised by its ending. I think it’s a kind of super creative way of using principle elements to make a movie.  This is the link of that movie for those who are interested in : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_17_kRZNFU .

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  1. UnknownSeptember 13, 2017 at 10:58 AM

    I have not seen this movie but its now on my list. (a list that is growing pretty fast thanks to this class) of movies to watch.

    The idea of utilizing plot as a scalpel instead of a blunt object to show the story is refreshing and not seen often in contemporary film I think.

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