Khady Toure
Mr Craig Lee
Drama
April 24, 2016
Director Comparative Analysis Paper
Ned Benson was just another ambitious screenwriter in Hollywood, with precisely three short films to his directorial name, when he started to write a drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Nine years after the beginnings of the project, “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” isn’t just a full-length film, but three separate movies which recount the same events from the perspective of each of the protagonists, and then in a more conventionally narrative form.
What inspired him to make the films is simple. He already started writing the part “him” before he met Jessica, his friend from last summer. I talked to her about it and she asked a lot of questions, says …show more content…
Shortly after Eleanor comes by the pub and the two rent a car and go for a drive. He tells her that he will be packing up their apartment the following week as he can no longer hold onto it. When it begins to rain and the windshield wipers don't work the two begin to kiss but Connor confesses he has slept with someone else.
The two return to the city.
“HER”
While biking over a bridge Eleanor Rigby (Jessica Chastain) decides to commit suicide and climbs the barrier and throws herself into the Hudson River. She is successfully rescued. At the hospital she is collected by her sister, Katy (Jess Weixler) who brings her back to their parents' home where Katy, along with her young son, are also living. Unsure of what to do with her life Eleanor decides to listen to her father's suggestion that she re-enroll in school. She talks her way into late registration in professor Lilian Friedman's (Viola Davis) class and the two become friendly.
“THEM”
This isn't the first time a film has told the same story from multiple perspectives; Rashomon did it and so did Timecode. There were even two movies made for British TV in 1973 that starred
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor: On one night viewers could see Divorce His, and on the next Divorce
Mr Craig Lee
Drama
April 24, 2016
Director Comparative Analysis Paper
Ned Benson was just another ambitious screenwriter in Hollywood, with precisely three short films to his directorial name, when he started to write a drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Nine years after the beginnings of the project, “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” isn’t just a full-length film, but three separate movies which recount the same events from the perspective of each of the protagonists, and then in a more conventionally narrative form.
What inspired him to make the films is simple. He already started writing the part “him” before he met Jessica, his friend from last summer. I talked to her about it and she asked a lot of questions, says …show more content…
Shortly after Eleanor comes by the pub and the two rent a car and go for a drive. He tells her that he will be packing up their apartment the following week as he can no longer hold onto it. When it begins to rain and the windshield wipers don't work the two begin to kiss but Connor confesses he has slept with someone else.
The two return to the city.
“HER”
While biking over a bridge Eleanor Rigby (Jessica Chastain) decides to commit suicide and climbs the barrier and throws herself into the Hudson River. She is successfully rescued. At the hospital she is collected by her sister, Katy (Jess Weixler) who brings her back to their parents' home where Katy, along with her young son, are also living. Unsure of what to do with her life Eleanor decides to listen to her father's suggestion that she re-enroll in school. She talks her way into late registration in professor Lilian Friedman's (Viola Davis) class and the two become friendly.
“THEM”
This isn't the first time a film has told the same story from multiple perspectives; Rashomon did it and so did Timecode. There were even two movies made for British TV in 1973 that starred
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor: On one night viewers could see Divorce His, and on the next Divorce