– week 6 lectorial –

I found extremely interesting in week 6’s lectorial, I was late for the lecture and the screen was playing ‘Jack & the Beanstalk’ told by Arlo Morris. This is used as an example to show how story telling actually work, we talked about there is a formula that stories usually follow, in particularly the superhero movies are seemed to be arranged in a same direction. To be honest, personally I do not enjoy so much the superhero movies like ‘Batman vs Superman’ or ‘Captain America’ etc. There are usually in the same direction like ‘Ulterman’ which is filmed in Japan, Ulterman is a superhero for most of the kids in my generation. They always start in an ordinary world; problems appeared so they need to start the adventure; when they first try to fight with the evils they lose; inspire by a mentor and at last they finally win. When too many films are set in this sequence, I started to wait for the turning point from the opening of the film. ‘Narrative is a sense of a sequence of events in some kinds of temporal order’, in my memories, I knew I saw movies from Japan that has broken the formula but unfortunately I can’t remember the name.

When I was watching ‘Batman vs Superman’, there was no surprised that it is going to be massive CGI used explicitly and dramatically. But the story plot was not too surprised and it was totally in my expectation. However, there are no doubt lots of films are very successful even they have stayed in this unchanged formula. The reason might be because of the filming technique; setting; costume; cinematography has kept updating, I guessed.

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