Chapter 8 Story
History is a narrative. Many historians have pointed out that "history" is really a jumble of fragments, unfiltered facts, random events with details that no one thinks worth explaining. Historians impose a narrative on too much material in the chaos. Napoleon observed: "History is the chosen and agreed version of past events". Historians take away some data and emphasize others, with results paired with causes, isolated events paired with other seemingly distant events. Simply put, modern historians insist that the past contains many histories, not just one. Each kind of history is one person collecting, interpreting, and pruning the facts into a narrative. Stone's controversial account of President Kennedy's assassination, from the New Orleans prosecutor's point of view, says the entire film is exactly as historians do, offering a possible explanation for the national tragedy that the American public has been deviating from. The movie is gorgeously edited, stitching together dozens of characters' experiences over many years and places and thousands of historical facts.
Chapter 10 Ideology
Degree of clarity: neutral, implied, explicit
A. Neutral: ① Erase the social environment and use a blurry and brisk background to make the story run smoothly; ② Emphasize action, entertainment value and pleasure, touch the concept of right and wrong on the surface, and even do not analyze it; the most extreme is the vanguard without real objects Pie video, (the value is all aesthetic).
B. Implicit: ① The pros and cons represent conflicting value systems, but we must understand the characters as the story unfolds, and no moral admonitions are spoken, ② Produced in a transparent rather than manipulated way.
C. explicit (explicit): the theme is clear, the goal is to teach, persuade and entertain. (Patriotism films, documentaries or political films such as "Assassination of Kennedy", films that emphasize social nature, the extremes of such films are propaganda films)
※Most of the feature films belong to the suggestive category. The characters reveal the underlying value system through the purpose of construction. The filmmakers will dramatize certain values through the characters' characteristics to win the audience's love for the protagonist.
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