classical Hollywood paradigm

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classical Hollywood paradigm
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• Main Active Protagonist
• narrative focuses on personal psychological
  causes decisions, choices, and traits of
  character
• character has a desire which sets up a goal
• typically the character changes over the course
  of the narrative

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Sideways
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• Causal chain of action
• characters desires propels causes/effects
• time is subordinated to the cause/effect chain
• unimportant events are omitted
• appointments and deadlines force narrative forward

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• External conflict
• antagonist
• usually in form of person, or creature but can be
  natural event, for example.
• antagonist can also be self (internal)

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• Linear time scheme
• story told in easily understood order
• typically chronological
• audience can determine order of events

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• Consistent, objective reality
• unrestricted narrativewe learn, see, hear things
  that the main character does not
• no fantastical creatures or superhuman powers

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• Continuity editing
• invisible editinghides the edit
• tries not to draw attention to itself
• the less noticeable the artifice of cinema, the
  more involved the viewer becomes

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• Closure
• leaves few if any loose ends unresolved
• seeks to resolve causal chains
• usually learn the fate of main characters at that
  time, the answer to each mystery, and the outcome
  of each conflict

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