THE VIDEO SHELF · film storytelling structure
Passengers, Rearranged
Nerdwriter1 shows how rearranging the scenes of the film Passengers, so the audience shares the female lead's confusion, would change the movie. It draws on discussion of the original script.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it to illustrate how simply reordering scenes can transform a story.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Nerdwriter1
- Topic
- film storytelling structure
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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A good example of the rearranging is from Nerdwriters YouTube [VIDEO] Just a minor change in order of the same scenes completely changed a movie.
aequitas on Hacker News · 2018-03
In Pixar's Rules of Storytelling (2013)Yeah but it wouldn't have been tempered by growing attached to Pratt's character and we would get to experience the same feeling of confusion as JLaw's character. NerdWriter on youtube has a good video on how the change would look, does a better job of …
rtkwe on Hacker News · 2021-06
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