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Linear vs. Non-Linear Narrative
Jared Peet
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Linear vs. Non-Linear Narrative
Linear• Chronological• Beginning – Middle – End• A causes B causes C
Non-Linear• Non-Chronological• Story not told in proper
order• No direct causal pattern• Flashbacks don’t count
– Example: Saving Private Ryan is told as a chronological flashback
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Memento
• Written and directed by Christopher Nolan– Dark Knight movies
• 2000• Stars Guy Pearce
(Leonard), Joe Pantoliano (Teddy) and Carrie-Anne Moss (Natalie)
• Academy Award nominations for screenwriting and editing
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Memento
• Memento is presented as two different sequences of scenes: a series in black-and-white that is shown chronologically, and a series of color sequences shown in reverse order. The two sequences "meet" at the end of the film, producing one common story
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Dramatic Unities - Aristotle
• The unity of action: a play should have one main action that it follows, with no or few subplots.
• The unity of place/space: a play should cover a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place.
• The unity of time: the action in a play should take place over no more than 24 hours.
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Non-Linear Narrative: Dramatic Unity
• In most films, the actions of a single protagonist pursuing a specific goal provide the basic unity for the story. His goal governs the plot structure. How the character changes as a result of the conflict provides the meaning.
• Action plays a fundamental role in organizing the plot of a nonlinear film, but it isn't based in a singly pursued goal that dominates the entire structure of the film. Theme plays the other role by defining the choices of incidents and events to include.
• Dramatic unity is achieved by the intersection of two key factors: a controlling theme or idea and a framing action.
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Citizen Kane
• Co-written and directed by Orson Welles
• 1941• Often considered
greatest film ever made• Orson Welles (Charles
Foster Kane)• First film to intensively
use flashbacks and unreliable narrators
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Citizen Kane• Kane's career in the
publishing world is born of idealistic social service, but gradually evolves into a ruthless pursuit of power.
• Narrated principally through flashbacks, the story is revealed through the research of a newsreel reporter seeking to solve the mystery of the newspaper magnate's dying word: "Rosebud".
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Dramatic Unity in Citizen Kane
Controlling Theme• Impossibility of finding love
if you can’t give love
Framing Action• Reporter trying to find
meaning behind Kane’s dying word: “Rosebud”
• Flashbacks are non-linear, not sequential