Timeline for Avoiding the "as you know" trope in exposition
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| Oct 29, 2015 at 14:00 | history | edited | Andrew Neely | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2015 at 7:57 | comment | added | Philipp | This answer would be better when you would provide examples. You can not assume that everyone is familiar with the works of Adams and Hamilton. | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 16:42 | comment | added | KeithS | The script for the movie, and the director and actors, used "Jack" from the Reader's Digest series (which exists) as the name for Norton's on-screen character to differentiate from Brad Pitt's character (and from true narrations), because (spoiler alert) Norton and Pitt are the same person with the same real name. And, the film is pretty firmly in the "dark comedy" genre alongside Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate, etc | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 15:10 | comment | added | corsiKa | Why do you call him Jack? He is simply "the narrator". And Fight Club is a tragedy not a comedy, since (spoiler alert) Tyler dies... | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 20:59 | comment | added | KeithS | Fight Club did much the same; "Jack" (Norton's character) narrated most of the story in a combination of VO and fourth-wall on-screen exposition. It really only works on-screen for these kinds of comedies, where you're allowed to play with the idea that at least one person in a movie knows they're in a movie (or in the abstract, telling a story) | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 20:19 | history | answered | Andrew Neely | CC BY-SA 3.0 |