quotes in order

Plot/plot twist/alternative narrative(breaking expectations)

'Stories surround us.

In childhood, we learn fairy tales and myths. As we grow up we read short stories,novels,history and biography' Film art-an introduction David Bordwell and Kristin Thomas

"Going to the movies" 'We are going to see a narrative film- a film that tells a story'

'The term plot is used to describe everything visibly and audibly present in the film before us'-Film art-an introduction David Bordwell and Kristin Thomas

'A plots withholding of events is perhaps most disruptive at the end of a film' -Film art-an introduction David Bordwell and Kristin Thomas


Characters/character types

'Hollywood executives often refer to this background information,which explains characters motivation as the back story' -Narrative and Genre by Nick Lacey

'Characters can only perceive  diabetic material where as the audience,obviously,can perceive everything a text has to offer,including non diegetic material'   -Narrative and Genre by Nick Lacey

'Perhaps the character types in film switch for the audience in this final scene.regarding Propp's theory of character types'-Narrative and Genre by Nick Lacey

psycho-marion/pulp fiction-vincent characters die early on in the film (pulp fiction not in order) confuses audience as they have been identifying with them

Audiences expectations of narrative

 'Narrative form is most common in fictional films,but it can appear in other basic types' 

Spectators approach a narrative with definite expectations'-Film art-an introduction David Bordwell and kristin Thomas

'We have anticipations that are characteristics of narrative form itself' -Film art-an introduction David Bordwell and kristin Thomas

'We often make assumptions and inferences about events in narrative' -Film art-an introduction David Bordwell and kristin Thomas

Time/chronological order

'We make sense of narrative,then by identifying it's events and linking them by cause and effect,time,and space' Film art-an introduction David bordwell and Kristin Thomas

'temporal order,we are quite accustomed to films that present events out of story order,a flashback is simply a portion of a story that the plot presents out of chronological order'-Film art-an introduction David Bordwell and kristin Thomas

'Time can be so central as to be almost incorporated as a character itself'-Power of Time-Media Magazine-Emma Louise Howard

'A single story event may appear twice or even more in the plot treatment' -Film art-an introduction David Bordwell and kristin Thomas

'This increased frequency may allow us to see the same action in several ways-Film art-an introduction David Bordwell and kristin Thomas

'in conventional narrative,stories must always be chronologically constructed otherwise they would be judged to violate the rules of our universe; they would destroy the rules of logical casualty which define narrative' -Narrative and genre by Nick Lacey

'Every story has a beginning,middle and end'-Backwards and Flash forwards by Emma Louise Howard

case study connections
narrative conventions-psycho plot twist-audiences expectations broken

Time-chronological order-Pulp fiction order of film.the beginning and ending in the same setting,same place.

As Jules and Vincent eat breakfast in a diner, the discussion returns to Jules' decision to retire. In a brief cutaway, "Pumpkin" and "Honey Bunny" appear shortly before they initiate the hold-up from the first scene of the film. 

prologue-the diner
epilogue-the diner

Restricted narration-psycho ending/norma bates