David Bordwell and Kristen Thompson: Film Art- An Introduction

"We assume that there will be characters and some action that will involve them with one another. We expect a series of incidents that will be connected in some way."-(P.1)

"The ending has the task of satisfying or cheating the expectations prompted by the film as a whole."-(P.2)

"We can consider a narrative to be 'a chain of events in cause-effect relationship occurring in time and space'."-(P.2)

"We shall see that the story-plot distinction affects all three aspects of narrative: causality, time, and space."-(P.4)

"By triggering and reacting to events, characters play roles within the film's formal system."-(P.4)

"In any narrative film, either fictional or documentary, characters create causes and register effects. Within the film's formal system, they make things happen and respond to events. Their actions and reactions contribute strongly to our engagement with the film."-(P.5)

"A plot's withholding of effects in perhaps most disruptive at the end of a film."-(P.6)

This quote refers to enigma codes and how the director can use them to make the film more enjoyable and intriguing for the audience.

"Sometimes a fairly simple reordering of scenes can create complicated effects."-(P.8)

The paragraph then goes on to describe how the reordering of scenes in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction was used to emphasise events that would of not had any importance if in chronological order. 

"In some media, a narrative might emphasise only casualty and time." -(P.9)