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Great Films Have Narrators.
This may have been discussed in the past but there is a popular theory among [ amongst ? ] cineastes that a high proportion of classic films have a narrator.
This is either not true, a mere coincidence or a easy way to explain an overly complex narrative to dim moviegoers. Still, it has some meriticiousness [ ooooer !! , hark at him ] Citizen Kane Apocalypse Now Double Indemnity Blade Runner To Kill A Mockingbird The Shawshank Redemption Any more ? |
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I'm sure Goodfellas is narrated too?
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This may have been discussed in the past but there is a popular theory among [ amongst ? ] cineastes that a high proportion of classic films have a narrator.
This is either not true, a mere coincidence or a easy way to explain an overly complex narrative to dim moviegoers. Still, it has some meriticiousness [ ooooer !! , hark at him ] Citizen Kane Apocalypse Now Double Indemnity Blade Runner To Kill A Mockingbird The Shawshank Redemption Any more ? |
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Dick Powell in Farewell My Lovely (Murder, My Sweet in the U.S.A.)
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"Oh, it was gorgeosity and yummy yum yum. I was cured."
A Clockwork Orange. |
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The narration is probably the best thing about AI: Artificial Intelligence for me. Ben Kingsley has a beautiful voice.
I also liked the narration in 'The Book Thief'. I realise that this doesn't answer the OP's question.
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Stand By Me, also a fine movie.
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Famously, Sunset Boulevard has ''from beyond the grave'' narration ........
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LA Confidential
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Fight Club
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I loved the gravelly-voiced narrator of The Last Voyage. He was one of the officers on the ship if I remember correctly A brilliant film that I haven't seen for years
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Playing It Cool is also narrated by the lead character. Also you don't know the name of the lead character, nor his love interest.
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Full Metal Jacket.
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Stand By Me, also a fine movie.
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Some favourite uses of a voiceover: Fallen, The Naked City, How the West Was Won, Eve's Bayou, Badlands, Drugstore Cowboy and Kind Hearts and Coronets.
--- I'm blanking on the title of this film. A voiceover drones as the camera zooms slowly towards something and halts when the voiceover suddenly says "Wait a minute! This isn't the story of [???]" The camera shifts to a medium close-up of a young white man in a suit, laughing whilst holding a cigar, as the voiceover says something like "This is the story of [???]". A 1940s/1950s film. Black and white. A satirical take on something corporate. Something like advertising. Very similar to Giants and Toys (1958). It can be coupled with Sweet Smell of Success in a way. I thought it was a Preston Sturges film until I watched this film again a few years ago, and learnt it wasn't. Anyone? |
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Amelie...... Oh, and carry on cleo.
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Citizen Kane
The Shawshank Redemption Badlands A Clockwork Orange Goodfellas |
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Sin City Raising Arizona Ferris Buellers Day Off - Although is talking to the camera still narration? The Shawshank Redemption |
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The narration is probably the best thing about AI: Artificial Intelligence for me. Ben Kingsley has a beautiful voice.
I also liked the narration in 'The Book Thief'. I realise that this doesn't answer the OP's question. ![]() He really does have a lovely voice. |
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I'm not sure about that, but trailers certainly have a shittily cheesy narrator.
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I'm not sure about that, but trailers certainly have a shittily cheesy narrator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjWKE-IJ4R8 |
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Some favourite uses of a voiceover: Fallen, The Naked City, How the West Was Won, Eve's Bayou, Badlands, Drugstore Cowboy and Kind Hearts and Coronets.
--- I'm blanking on the title of this film. A voiceover drones as the camera zooms slowly towards something and halts when the voiceover suddenly says "Wait a minute! This isn't the story of [???]" The camera shifts to a medium close-up of a young white man in a suit, laughing whilst holding a cigar, as the voiceover says something like "This is the story of [???]". A 1940s/1950s film. Black and white. A satirical take on something corporate. Something like advertising. Very similar to Giants and Toys (1958). It can be coupled with Sweet Smell of Success in a way. I thought it was a Preston Sturges film until I watched this film again a few years ago, and learnt it wasn't. Anyone? |
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I was always under the impression that narration in a movie was always considered to be an artistically lazy way of telling the story?
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