Storytelling
In Chapter 11, the article talks about how telling a story gives book and movies positive or negative results as far as the reader wanting to pursue reading the book or looking at the movie. The movie I chose to write about is Madea's Big Happy Family. The genre of the movie is listed as a comedy film. It debuted on April 22, 2011 and the movie's director is Tyler Perry.
The summary of the movie is about a woman named Shirley who has a terminal illness and she has to find a way to tell her family. Her family is very dysfunctional and as she tries to tell them, everything seems to never come together for her. Horrible family secrets are exposed from other members of the family as she goes through this terrible ordeal. Shirley seeks the help of Madea (Tyler Perry) to help get her family together to deal with the news she's about to tell them.
The rules of a strong hook based on Chapter 11 for this movie consist of: (1) opening with conflict because there are many arguments between members of the family about listening to each others advice and coming together as a whole. Everyone seems separated and only concerned for themselves. (2) The movie opens with movement from the characters because there are different parts of the story that will go in together as the movie progresses. Shirley is doing a lot of movement and interacting with the hospital staff to set the tone for her story line. (3) The characters set the tone because they have an aggressive tone of voice with each other to make each one listen to the other one. This also helps with being argumentive towards each other. Conflict is a big part of this movie's story line because no one gets along at the beginning of the movie.
The elements of riveting the first line are: (1) sweeping the declaration, (2) the setting, and (3) inherent the question. The main character sweeps the declaration because she wants the audience to continue watching the movie because she wants them to see how and if she is able to tell her family the news. In the beginning of the movie, the setting is in a hospital. The hospital setting targets people to see what is wrong and why she is there. The setting will most likely want people to continue watching the movie to see the end result. Lastly, this movie inherent the question because it gives enough detail and suspense to show that there is bad news that's brewing to come to light. The story line doesn't tell what's going on at once because the news she tries to tell is always interrupted. It's like waiting to figure out how everything is going to play out and not ask questions.
The movie speaks volume because according to (William G. Tapley, Page 338), the movie doesn't dump the character's backstory in the viewer's lap. We didn't get the whole story of Shirley's character because the plot was piled into bits and pieces up to the end and it went in on the the other character's story plot as well, such as the paternity of Cora Simmons.
In conclusion, the art of story telling consist of many important parts. These parts draw in the audience to see if it will enhance the theory to keep the people on their toes to continue viewing the movie or reading a book. It is important for each story or movie to have a "hook" to keep the attention going until the very end.
https://youtu.be/G2ZmFuRtt0g
The summary of the movie is about a woman named Shirley who has a terminal illness and she has to find a way to tell her family. Her family is very dysfunctional and as she tries to tell them, everything seems to never come together for her. Horrible family secrets are exposed from other members of the family as she goes through this terrible ordeal. Shirley seeks the help of Madea (Tyler Perry) to help get her family together to deal with the news she's about to tell them.
The rules of a strong hook based on Chapter 11 for this movie consist of: (1) opening with conflict because there are many arguments between members of the family about listening to each others advice and coming together as a whole. Everyone seems separated and only concerned for themselves. (2) The movie opens with movement from the characters because there are different parts of the story that will go in together as the movie progresses. Shirley is doing a lot of movement and interacting with the hospital staff to set the tone for her story line. (3) The characters set the tone because they have an aggressive tone of voice with each other to make each one listen to the other one. This also helps with being argumentive towards each other. Conflict is a big part of this movie's story line because no one gets along at the beginning of the movie.
The elements of riveting the first line are: (1) sweeping the declaration, (2) the setting, and (3) inherent the question. The main character sweeps the declaration because she wants the audience to continue watching the movie because she wants them to see how and if she is able to tell her family the news. In the beginning of the movie, the setting is in a hospital. The hospital setting targets people to see what is wrong and why she is there. The setting will most likely want people to continue watching the movie to see the end result. Lastly, this movie inherent the question because it gives enough detail and suspense to show that there is bad news that's brewing to come to light. The story line doesn't tell what's going on at once because the news she tries to tell is always interrupted. It's like waiting to figure out how everything is going to play out and not ask questions.
The movie speaks volume because according to (William G. Tapley, Page 338), the movie doesn't dump the character's backstory in the viewer's lap. We didn't get the whole story of Shirley's character because the plot was piled into bits and pieces up to the end and it went in on the the other character's story plot as well, such as the paternity of Cora Simmons.
In conclusion, the art of story telling consist of many important parts. These parts draw in the audience to see if it will enhance the theory to keep the people on their toes to continue viewing the movie or reading a book. It is important for each story or movie to have a "hook" to keep the attention going until the very end.
https://youtu.be/G2ZmFuRtt0g
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