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Subtitles on a film which question character's motivations, or provides clues to what they may be thinking in any given scene.
Example: The final scene in Usual Suspects when Kooyong is looking at the noticeboard...<spoilers follow>
Hmm.. Guatemalan coffee..Spokane quartet...orca fat...hey was
he just making this stuff up?
Empathy_20subtitles
[hippo, Jun 02 2010, last modified Jun 15 2010]
Unreliable Narrator
http://www.novel-wr...iable-narrator.html
I suppose subtitles may enhance reliability. [rcarty, Jun 13 2010]
What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061177/
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe. [LoriZ, Jun 15 2010]
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ok...possibly a bad example (I haven't seen it for a while) |
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Should be a balloon rather than a subtitle. |
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[LoriZ] You want to post "Speech Balloon Subtitles" or shall I? Because that is brilliant. |
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I saw the subject movie within the last few months, because I was cornered. I didn't like it because it left the viewer wondering what the movie was about if the story he was narrating was bullshit. |
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The caption should probably read "Whoa, if he was making the story up, what the fuck is this movie about?" |
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[admin: let's keep this along with "empathy subtitles" - "plot" is a wider concept than just empathy, even though empathy definitely helps with the plot.] |
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I suspect what's throwing you for a loop, rcarty, is the use of live action footage to show events that exist only in the mind of a narrator and the listener, but didn't really take place. If you don't think imaginary events are entitled to emit photons, the movie is hard too swallow - but if you accept that the events shown are imaginary in the mind of the cop who's talking to the Kevin Spacey character, it's a tightly written, well acted thriller that's on many people's lists of favorite movies, including mine. |
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I'm hoping that the subtitles wouldn't adopt a viewpoint that rejects a fundamental premise of the movie - they'd be pretty useless! |
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I was thinking about my criticism afterwards, and admitted to myself that one fictional story is as good as another. I guess one suspects usual narration, so to speak. I've linked an article about the 'unreliable narrator', in lieu of another literary idea I can't exactly remember. Something still bothers me about it for some reason. Maybe it is because the ending was still a surprise (not really, I guessed who he was) and the revelation that evidently requires subtext was just a slap in the face to the audience, and wasn't important to the big twist ending. |
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