Classical Hollywood Narrative Structure

Classical narrative structures are a central feature to any genre of hollywood produced movies, in which a story is beginning told to the audience through this media. However, it is quite seldom that spectators of the movies will be able to see the specfic result of the narrative, due to the structure base created by the director.
These narratives are created to give an effortless approach to the audience, who are blind-sided by the no trace of the narrative structure. “Narrative process follows an orderly pattern in which an initial state of affairs is introduced, after something occurs to disturb this equilibrium.” Classical hollywood narratives were thoroughly character-centered between 1895 and 1960, with various different issues that arise characters are known to be “stable, knownable, and psychologically coherent indiviuals” quoted by David Bordwell. Narratives are scheduled precisely in the pre-production stage of film process; in order to combine the …show more content…
Anti-narratives challenged the tradition of conventional narratives by illustrating events in non-chronological order in which they are displayed in the traditional narratives. This type of structure is used in various types of films in which the director will showcase a variety of events to the audience in which they interlink together towards the plot, example of this is Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994), Pulp Fiction is separated into three stories – Vincent’s Story, Butch’s Story, and Jule’s Story; However, in each of the stories the focus consists between one or more characters and the audience witnesses the interlinking of characters appearing in each other’s stories. “Pulp Fiction is made better than it would have been if Tarantino had made any one of the three stories within it into its own solo feature-length film.” Tarantino’s movies illustrious for his use of