Tag: stories
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Movie Thoughts: Saving Private Ryan
The clue is given at the beginning. We start with an unknown old man at a war memorial cemetery. He isn’t named. We don’t know where he is. At the end of the scene the old man stares into the screen the movie fades into June 1944. The beach is called Dog Green. Is this…
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Storytelling: The old testament
Introduction The other day I happened to look at the College Tour. The College tour is a Dutch program in which the host Twan Huys invites famous people to talk about what made them famous and allow the audience(students mostly) to ask them questions. In this particular episode the guest was John Cleese. During this interview someone…
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Story-telling: The hobbit – The battle of the five armies.
Yesterday I saw the Hobbit – The Battle of the Five Armies, and wrote a short scathing critique of the movie on metacritic. This third episode is simply a long series of fights interspersed with some dialog. However, besides giving criticism I want to learn from such movies, so I am going to write a few short notes the…
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Story-telling: Jurassic Park part 2/3 : The T-rex, the raptors and the naked monkeys.
Welcome to part second part of the movie Jurassic Park in which I am trying to analyse the story-telling. In a previous post I discussed the first fifty minutes of the movie including the introduction of the central characters. In this part I am going discuss the remaining two hours of the movie which might conceivably…
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