Might as well talk about story function! The reason people try to use flash-forwards is because it puts a feeling of intensity at the start, a way of saying "don't worry audience, this WILL get exciting!" But not only is that artificial conflict, it often hurts you.
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Because what it does is set an expectation in the audiences mind of what to expect. Rather than emotionally being involved in the action of the story, they sit there thinking "Huh I wonder how we'll get back here? It makes it a cerebral experience instead of a dramatic one.
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More over, it often puts a stamp on the fact that you can't actually come up with a story that has conflict at the start, so you just hide and tease and hint at, and are probably hiding a lack of function in your story in general.
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Can it work sometimes? Yeah sure, of course. It works in Iron Man because it's a way of emotionally telling the audience "don't worry, this cocksure jack ass is going to pay for his behavior soon" and it ONLY lasts like twenty minutes of screen time.
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Again, everything has to be ingrained in dramatic story function. Don't hide under artifice. HULK OUT.
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Oh because people already bringing up Breaking Bad. They were probably better at playing with it that anyone. Sometimes it was poetic, sometimes functional, sometimes total misdirect... but the thing to notice most of all is how they mostly phased it out as the series went on :)
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Hulk, where are the shows and movies you write!
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Reminds me of that Archer joke: "Where'd you get that knife?"/"It's a long story." Cut to Archer in front of a store window, pointing to a knife. "That knife please."
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that was brilliant
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I could swear I've seen something more or less like this dine somewhere
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