2/1/2024 0 Comments Jumpcut advertisement![]() We see his eyes wandering around the room when he’s brought in, using his quick thinking to make up his account of the proceedings. In “The Usual Suspects,” Verbal Kint’s story is pieced together right there in the interrogator’s office from a police bulletin board. This will undoubtedly be securitized upon repeat viewings and will give a different viewing experience which can make or break the twist. What’s important with twist endings is that the signs or seeds of the big twist are planted beforehand. By immersing the viewer with the point of view of that character who tells the story from their perspective, the viewer believes whatever that character believes (or wants them to believe). Like the other famous twist endings previously mentioned, they mostly rest on one character’s point of view, otherwise known as an unreliable narrator. The film features an anchoring performance from the recently shamed Kevin Spacey, who plays a small-time con man, who recounts a convoluted story to police interrogators of a heist gone wrong, commissioned by a mysterious mob boss known as Keyser Söze. “The Usual Suspects” perhaps has one of the most famous twist endings in the modern cinema next to “The Sixth Sense” and “Fight Club.” Successfully turning a story on its head is one of the hardest things for a filmmaker to do, and requires immaculate story building to deliver the big payoff. With that in mind, we look the different ways writers and filmmakers have structured films, why these structures are used, and the relationships with the point of views in hand. How the characters perceive things or how the writer wants the audience to perceive his work depends on the relationship between structure and point of view. I mention this because point of view plays an important part of structuring a story. With cinema, the audience is given the point of view of a character/s and is therefore forced to pick a side. We don’t have to necessarily agree with it or understand it, but we have to see that it has a point. The same holds true for any work of art we’re given the point of view of the artist. ![]() Our points of view form from all our life experiences and influences. Whether it’s religion, music, politics or the philosophy of life, our beliefs and opinions rest solely on our point of view. One thing that’s interesting about life is that everything and everyone rest’s on point of view. No matter how genius your structure is, it means nothing if it doesn’t correlate with the story. From then on the story informs the genre, style, pace and structure. From then on there’s a vast number of styles and structures that can be chosen to make sure a story hits its mark.Īny good film inherently starts with a good story, whether it’s a basic concept, character or theme. Whatever structure the writer decides upon, all good stories fundamentally follow the basic three-act structure. Depending on the narrative itself, you could distort the structure any way you deem necessary, considering the structure enhances the story. It’s amazing to think of the vast methods one can use to structure a story.
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