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DZ-54: Thematic Sequences
How does removing character and plot question force your audience to engage with theme?
AI✦Stephen Cleary returns to explain how thematic sequences function as a distinct type--one that strips away plot and character questions to force audiences into direct engagement with meaning.✦
Listen if you want to make theme your primary driver (for a sequence)
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Chas and Stu are joined, once again, by the inestimable Stephen Cleary. This episode is a spiritual sequel to our last episode with Stephen, the one on sequence structure. That episode explored how sequences could be broken into plot, character, and plot/character sequences… →
Films:
Love Actually (2003)
, The Exterminating Angel (1962)
, Apocalypse Now (1979)
, In the Bedroom (2001)
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DZ-80: Interweaving Timelines 3 - Little Women
How can interweaving timelines elevate the emotional experience for the audience?
AI✦Gerwig’s interweaving allows her to build thematic connections across timelines that wouldn’t exist in chronological storytelling, making the structure itself a carrier of meaning rather than merely a delivery system for plot.✦
Listen to explore non-chronological structures can make work thematically resonant.
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In our final part, part 3, of our Interweaving Timelines series, we — Chas, Stu & Mel — take a deep dive into Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of Little Women. In her adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s iconic novels, Greta chose to interweave the seperate timelines of Little Women and it’s sequel, Good Wives, to create a thematically and emotionally potent work. This differs from all the other adaptations, which have chosen to keep the chronological storytelling of the source material… →