On the use of voice-overs in "Millions of Baby"

Laverne 2022-09-12 21:59:53

From the beginning of the film, an old man’s narration intervened. At this time, the audience did not know the identity of the old man, but knew that he knew everything in the picture from a omniscient perspective. But the audience soon realized that the original narrator was the ringmaster. Then, the narrator is the character in the story, and the "administrator" in the story does not know other characters (referring to Maggie), but the "administrator" in the voice-over still knows everything on the screen and tells the story. Qi's past. Until the end of the film, the audience was surprised to find that the voice-over throughout the film was actually the "administrator"'s narration of Frankie's daughter. At this moment, it was hinted to the audience that the whole film was narrated in flashback. ("Flashback" in the traditional sense is to give the ending or some key plots first, and then go back to narrate the beginning and the end of the story)

A voiceover completes the role/object transformation (old man→audience, manager→audience, manager→Flange) Qi’s daughter); changes in location (outside the story-inside the story) and time changes (Shun Xu-flashback)

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Million Dollar Baby quotes

  • Danger Barch: [Repeated line; yelling] And I challenge the "Motor City Cobra", Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns to fight me for the Welterweight Championship of the whole world!

  • Maggie Fitzgerald: [first meeting] Mr. Dunn?

    Frankie Dunn: Hmm. I owe you money?

    Maggie Fitzgerald: No sir.

    Frankie Dunn: I know your mama?

    Maggie Fitzgerald: Don't rightly know, sir.

    Frankie Dunn: Then what is it you want?