I want to open a movie with a dude in a handcuffs with two goons above him- FREEZE FRAME: "This is me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation?" Cut to two seconds earlier of him being pulled into room. HIM: "Yup, dragged in through that door and shoved down."
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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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Would love to hear Hulk's thoughts on how this applies to Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard
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Is there a difference between flash-forwards and in media res?

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Yeah flash forwards are when you jump to events that happen later in the movie, then jump back in time and show how the story got there
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What about where the flash forward is to a quiet, intimate, moment around a campfire as one of the characters begins to talk about what's happened to the group so far (e.g. Final Fantasy X)
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One of many reasons I started to hate Alias. “This again?!!!!” I said aloud in front of the tv by myself. I never do that. I still like the first season when Sydney had friends and a double life.
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