Cloud Atlas
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UPDATED: Monday, November 5, 2012 17:49
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Quote:I'm not a fan of movies freed from the chains of narrative continuity. I'll see it at home and break my viewing sessions, one for each segment. I lose gestalt that way, but I gain coherence. It's personal -- I might be allergic to omnibus movies.
Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Hey Two, That bit you quoted from the book is (much condensed, of course) in the movie. Did you see it yet?
I just remembered Animatrix, also by The Wachowskis. Best in small doses of one story per day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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Um. It's not at all edited like an omnibus movie. There are no "sections." Scenes flow from one historical period to another and back again throughout the movie. Basically, all the story arcs are experienced simultaneously.
HKCavalier
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Quote:Simultaneously? I looked at the book to see that all but one story, Sloosha's Crossin', are split in two. If the movie is built the same, I could jump forward on DVD to the second half of each story. I can handle that it's not a traditional anthology.
Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Um. It's not at all edited like an omnibus movie. There are no "sections." Scenes flow from one historical period to another and back again throughout the movie. Basically, all the story arcs are experienced simultaneously.
Cloud Atlas chapter headings:
5 - The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing
4 - Letters from Zedelghem
3 - Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery
2 - The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish
1 - An Orison of Sonmi
0 - Sloosha's Crossin' An' Ev'rythin' After
1 - An Orison of Sonmi
2 - The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish
3 - Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery
4 - Letters from Zedelghem
5 - The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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In order to experience the various stories separately you would have to go through the DVD and find out the chapters for each one, skipping over a lot of other scenes just to see each vignette sequentially. But I think that would be a mistake. It is edited in such a way that all of the stories flow well together because they are connected by a common theme.
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Quote:
Originally posted by two:
If the movie is built the same...
Its not.
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