one thing I am really sick of in movies is the "open with a moment of high tension and then flashback" trope.
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Replying to @nberlat
it's not just movies, it's all over fiction. in the age of ebooks and streaming, it costs very little to switch media. so creators very badly need to hook the audience as soon as possible--little time to let things start slow.
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Replying to @perdricof @nberlat
You don't need to start slow though. Half these things either the start on its own would hook you fine or you could just start with the first bit and keep going from there. It's the "24 hours earlier" part that is the problem, not the starting in the middle.
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If your movie/book/media has a boring beginning then either fix it or cut it out entirely, don't put a bit of the end in at the start and then make us go through the boring part anyway.
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Like if it's boring it's going to be boring no matter where in the story we encounter it so why include it at all?
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This sounds rantier than I mean it to, I apologize.
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There is something to be said for the film school rant about flashbacks being a lazy device that create fake drama by turning simple plot points into a "mystery/reveal" structure and everyone should be forced to at least try to tell the story straight through first time around
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Film Crit Hulk ripped on the John Carter movie for this, talking about how giving him a flashback to his wife and kids dying in the Civil War (a "reveal" to the "mystery" of why he has PTSD) was lazy and hamhanded
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MikeHoyer3 and
Like it's beating on your skull telling you to make the connection between his feelings about his dead wife and Dejah in the present, rather than just telling this fairly obvious story in order and trusting us to be able to make that connection when it happens
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