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Movie Glassland Analysis
Every film has a plot to it, one or more themes, and a story that is being told. Storylines, as in movies, are often hard to understand or they make sense differently to individuals. It is crucial to to make sense of the countless aspects fitted together in a story to make the movie overall. Some people are not aware about the fact that, like there exists the study psychology, there is also the study Narratology, which is “the study of how stories work, how we make sense of the raw material of a narrative, how we fit them together to form a coherent whole.” (Giannetti). Nowadays, Hollywood movies has similar story makeups, unlike more with more than one theme, like Gosford Park, which tells a story but explores more than one at the same times. …show more content…
As the book states, “realistics prefer loose discursive plots, with no defined beginning, middle, or end.”, and a good example can be the film Glassland (Gianetti). The movie Glassland as an example of realistic narrative, since the movie explores a life based stored, and does not have a clear or defined ending to it, which leaves the audience to forecast was would have or will happen. Moreover, before reading the textbook I was not aware about motion pictures having three broad classifications, one being documentaries which fits the movie Best in Show. The movie can be considered a nonfictional narrative, since it is based on real people, places, and events which in this case is the dog show; instead of telling a story or plot, this movies explores the character's life, process, and events that prepare them for the …show more content…
The film Epic Movie, a parody movie, fits the parodic cycle, a movie in which its “genre's development is an outright mockery of its conventions, reducing them to howling cliches and presenting them in a comic manner” (Gianetti). This movies, is based on other popular film like The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, X-Man, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but the plot is utter mockery of the those films. A story helps determine or classify what a film is about and where it should categorized, there are many aspects that make up a story as for what it

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