tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post5834394027630980550..comments2024-03-29T04:56:23.027-04:00Comments on Cockeyed Caravan: Storyteller’s Rulebook #59: Upsetting News Is The Best NewsMatt Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-33328811578461339862010-12-14T10:59:23.727-05:002010-12-14T10:59:23.727-05:00Like rams I'm a fan of the bold straightforwar...Like rams I'm a fan of the bold straightforward exposition dumps by great directors. Two others that come to mind are the lecture/tour at the beginning of THE SHINING and the film and briefing in Tarkovsky's SOLARIS. Btw, Matt, you may have already read the posts on David Bordwell's blog about INCEPTION, but if you haven't they're worth a look. He argues fairly convincingly that exposition doesn't get in the way of story for INCEPTION because it _is_ the story in INCEPTION. Frankly, I feel that way about a lot of thrillers that are dear to me--ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, PRIMER, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY--so it's nice that someone like Bordwell takes the time to dig into how this works. He's also got another blog entry from this year, I think, an excellent contrarian rant on that old screenwriting saw of Showing vs. Telling, where he comes out in support(conditionally) of the latter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-14899290589338485302010-12-14T04:48:28.819-05:002010-12-14T04:48:28.819-05:00Ha -- timely. Having been sensitized by your char...Ha -- timely. Having been sensitized by your characterization of the Pensieve as The Bowl of Exposition, I found myself smiling the other night at how Spielberg gets us through the huge information dump at the beginning of Raiders by having Harrison Ford work himself into a professorial frenzy of spinning blackboards and flailing chalk. (It's a huge wink and nudge, too,of course, but since the whole movie is it sort of doesn't count.)ramshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06197775203594297901noreply@blogger.com