What is film narrative structure
Nowadays, it is actually hard to find a movie that telling a story from beginning straight up to the ending. Each movie has its own narrative structure and the narrative techniques decides how viewers going to read the plot. There are many different forms to construct a story and the key to let viewer understand what the story of a movie is about is how to take from the multiple narrative structures for a plot.
The narrative constructions that frequently appear in modern movies are traditional narrative, Multilinear narrative, flashback narrative, cycle structure and so on. In this blog, I talk about how Quentin Tarantino constructed his Pulp Fiction。 In fact, there are more than one narrative structure in Pulp Fiction, "Pulp Fiction is structured around three distinct but interrelated story lines. Although each storyline focuses on a different series of incidents, they connect and intersect in various ways."（http://en.wikipedia.org）And the most obvious one is repetition and cycle structure.
In Pulp Fiction, there is no traditional narrative centre or a consecutive storyline but split joint of different elements.In terms of narrative structure, Tarantino abandoned traditional single storyline narrative and break the ordinary story telling rule which is based on the order of time and space. The movie starts from a rob in coffee shop but the ending is still the rob in coffee shop, so the beginning is the ending，the ending is the beginning.This hint that the multiple story lines are circularly and endlessly repeating. Tarantino telling these stories through taking them apart and rearranging them. So, viewer can see a man who already dead in front story and comes back to life later on. This makes people feel like Tarantino split the stories in pieces. There is no beginning or ending.To understand the narratives, viewers need to compose multiple narratives through using their own idea.
Anyway, the most critical point of Tarantino's idea is the recombination of fragments and various of narrative structures. There is no point to identify what the entire plot is or what the thematic the movie presents to viewers is."On another level, however, in the case of integrated multiple narratives, I will argue that cues are included within the film's structure that encourage the viewer to construct meanning from thematic or formal parallels between the multiple narratives." (http://www.euronet.nl-Defining multiple narrative structures )
Nowadays, it is actually hard to find a movie that telling a story from beginning straight up to the ending. Each movie has its own narrative structure and the narrative techniques decides how viewers going to read the plot. There are many different forms to construct a story and the key to let viewer understand what the story of a movie is about is how to take from the multiple narrative structures for a plot.
The narrative constructions that frequently appear in modern movies are traditional narrative, Multilinear narrative, flashback narrative, cycle structure and so on. In this blog, I talk about how Quentin Tarantino constructed his Pulp Fiction。 In fact, there are more than one narrative structure in Pulp Fiction, "Pulp Fiction is structured around three distinct but interrelated story lines. Although each storyline focuses on a different series of incidents, they connect and intersect in various ways."（http://en.wikipedia.org）And the most obvious one is repetition and cycle structure.
In Pulp Fiction, there is no traditional narrative centre or a consecutive storyline but split joint of different elements.In terms of narrative structure, Tarantino abandoned traditional single storyline narrative and break the ordinary story telling rule which is based on the order of time and space. The movie starts from a rob in coffee shop but the ending is still the rob in coffee shop, so the beginning is the ending，the ending is the beginning.This hint that the multiple story lines are circularly and endlessly repeating. Tarantino telling these stories through taking them apart and rearranging them. So, viewer can see a man who already dead in front story and comes back to life later on. This makes people feel like Tarantino split the stories in pieces. There is no beginning or ending.To understand the narratives, viewers need to compose multiple narratives through using their own idea.
Anyway, the most critical point of Tarantino's idea is the recombination of fragments and various of narrative structures. There is no point to identify what the entire plot is or what the thematic the movie presents to viewers is."On another level, however, in the case of integrated multiple narratives, I will argue that cues are included within the film's structure that encourage the viewer to construct meanning from thematic or formal parallels between the multiple narratives." (http://www.euronet.nl-Defining multiple narrative structures )
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