{"id":29314,"date":"2014-09-21T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=29314"},"modified":"2014-09-21T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T15:38:16","slug":"cinematic-storytelling-a-podcast-on-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/21\/cinematic-storytelling-a-podcast-on-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinematic storytelling: A podcast on narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wolf-of-Wall-St-6003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29325\" title=\"Wolf of Wall St 600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wolf-of-Wall-St-6003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wolf-of-Wall-St-6003.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wolf-of-Wall-St-6003-150x63.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wolf-of-Wall-St-6003-500x210.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Wolf of Wall Street<\/strong> (2013).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DB here:<\/p>\n<p>Michael Neelsen is a filmmaker and consultant based here in Madison. In a discussion on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reelfanatics.com\/2014\/09\/18\/302-on-narrative-w-david-bordwell\/\" target=\"_blank\">ReelFanatics<\/a>\u00a0Michael and I consider some ideas about cinematic storytelling. My allergies gave me some Clintonesque hoarseness, and there are some things I&#8217;d rephrase better if I were writing them down, but maybe you&#8217;ll find something of interest there.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of blog entries are relevant to our conversation: one on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/12\/understanding-film-narrative-the-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and another on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/pulverizing-plots-into-the-woods-with-sondheim-shklovsky-and-david-o-russell\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>American Hustle<\/em><\/a>. The first of these links to a general analysis of film narrative originally published in\u00a0<em>Poetics of Cinema<\/em>\u00a0and available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/books\/poetics_03narrative.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">elsewhere on the site<\/a>. Our discussion of suspense and surprise harks back to other entries too, in particular those about Hitchcock and the bomb under the table (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/29\/hitchcock-lessing-and-the-bomb-under-the-table\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/hitchcock-again-3-9-steps-to-s-u-s-p-e-n-s-e\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). In the podcast I mention the Godard film <em>Adieu au langage<\/em>\u00a0as well because I was then working on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/07\/adieu-au-langage-2-2-x-3d\/\" target=\"_blank\">this blog entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also visit Michael&#8217;s company site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyfirstmedia.com\/our-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">StoryFirst<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Michael for an enjoyable discussion, and for sharing it via podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). DB here: Michael Neelsen is a filmmaker and consultant based here in Madison. In a discussion on\u00a0ReelFanatics\u00a0Michael and I consider some ideas about cinematic storytelling. My allergies gave me some Clintonesque hoarseness, and there are some things I&#8217;d rephrase better if I were writing them down, but maybe you&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,55,36,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-directors-hong-sangsoo","category-directors-ozu-yasujiro","category-directors-scorsese","category-narrative-strategies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29314"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29327,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29314\/revisions\/29327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}