Main > Everything Else
Anyone Else Jazzed About the New Avengers Movie?
emphatic:
I give this movie 4/5. I saw it in 3D and that always lowers the score. LOVED The Hulk, especially in NYC.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Vigo on April 27, 2012, 02:24:46 pm ---
The storytelling to get through the story arc is where the entertainment is.
--- End quote ---
Meh . . . you're just using different words to say the same thing. Storytelling is nothing more than describing the conflict between the protagonist and antagonist, even if the antagonist is an abstraction like a cliff that must be climbed. And the easier the cliff is to climb, the less interesting the story is. Without conflict there is no story to tell.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: knave on April 27, 2012, 06:11:39 pm ---Sometimes a story is entertaining on its own merit not because of conflict.
--- End quote ---
This doesn't even mean anything. The story and the conflict are not two different things. The conflict is part of the story. And a story with no conflict has very very little merit.
wp34:
--- Quote from: emphatic on April 27, 2012, 06:30:59 pm ---I give this movie 4/5. I saw it in 3D and that always lowers the score. LOVED The Hulk, especially in NYC.
--- End quote ---
Glad to hear it. I'm real anxious to see this. I don't care much for 3D either but sometimes it is hard to avoid.
Vigo:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 27, 2012, 07:34:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on April 27, 2012, 02:24:46 pm ---
The storytelling to get through the story arc is where the entertainment is.
--- End quote ---
Meh . . . you're just using different words to say the same thing. Storytelling is nothing more than describing the conflict between the protagonist and antagonist, even if the antagonist is an abstraction like a cliff that must be climbed.
--- End quote ---
The key difference though is there is actually more to storytelling than just conflict. Take Alice in Wonderland as an example. Sure there is conflict with Alice coping where she is, the queen, etc. That has nothing to do with what make's it's storytelling so amazing. It is the fantastic world with strange creatures and nonsensical happenings that make the novel timeless. The conflict was mostly about a girl getting home, but that has nothing to do with why people read the book.
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 27, 2012, 07:34:23 pm ---And the easier the cliff is to climb, the less interesting the story is.
--- End quote ---
Not exactly. I think a great conflict makes storytelling easy, but even a story without much of any perception of overcome difficulty can be excellent. Look at Forrest Gump. It is about a complete idiot who totally Chuck Norris's through life. The entire way they tell you the story is to show you how little conflict the guy deals with. You can look at Baron Munchausen or Prcos Bill any tall tale as the same thing.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version