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______
Erotetic narration
This ______ is an instance of what can be called erotetic narration.
basic structure of movie narration
This basic structure of movie narration is an instance of what can be called ______.
erotetic narration
It will be profitable to examine it at some length for two reasons: first, in order to illustrate ______ cohere or segue with the principles that hierarchically control the narrative enterprise at large at the level of the entire individual motion picture work; …
how the principles that govern variable framing
It will be profitable to examine it at some length for two reasons: first, in order to illustrate how the principles that govern variable framing ______ the principles that hierarchically control the narrative enterprise at large at the level of the entire individual motion picture work; …
cohere or segue with
It will be profitable to examine it at some length for two reasons: first, in order to illustrate how the principles that govern variable framing cohere or segue with ______ at the level of the entire individual motion picture work; …
the principles that hierarchically control the narrative enterprise at large
It will be profitable to examine it at some length for two reasons: first, in order to illustrate how the principles that govern variable framing cohere or segue with the principles that hierarchically control the narrative enterprise at large ______; …
at the level of the entire individual motion picture work
…; and second, because the issue of ______ is of philosophical interest in and of itself.
the nature of basic movie narration
How does ______ tell its story?
the typical movie
How does the typical movie ______?
tell its story
First, in contrast, for example, to a soap opera, the typical movie ______.
tells its story in one uninterrupted sitting
[The typical movie] begins and then comes to an end, usually within two to four or so hours after it begins. On the other hand, it is the fervent wish of the makers of soap operas that ______.
their sagas continue on and on
If movies follow Aristotle’s advice with respect to having ______, soap operas have, as the critic Dennis Porter nicely remarks, “indefinitely expandable middles”.
beginnings, middles, and ends
If movies follow Aristotle’s advice with respect to having beginnings, middles, and ends, soap operas have, as the critic Dennis Porter nicely remarks, “______”.
indefinitely expandable middles
Moreover, the difference here is not simply that the movie stops somewhere whereas the soap opera, ideally, plows on perpetually. The end of a motion picture narrative has ______; …
an aura of consummation about it
The end of a motion picture narrative has an aura of consummation about it; it ______.
yields a quite definite impression of completeness
In contrast, the soap opera is, ______.
by its nature, incpomlete
Even if General Hospital were about to go off the air, it is probably by now practically impossible for a soap opera like this to ______ - that is, to resolve all of its exfoliating plot lines.
tie up all of its loose ends
Even if General Hospital were about to go off the air, it is probably by now practically impossible for a soap opera like this to tie up all of its loose ends - that is, to ______.
resolve all of its exfoliating plot lines
But ideally we expect a movie to “______”.
wrap everything up
In short, a movie is not supposed merely to come to a halt; a movie is meant to have what theorists call ______.
closure
