XKCD Movie Narrative Charts.

[mckitterick]

This is one of my favorite things ever:

Click the image to see the comic (and to blow it up to GINORMOUS full size).

I want a wall-sized poster. WANT. But he does not have.

Chris

Comments

[sarahbrand.livejournal.com]

I don't even want to know how long it took him to do that. In other news, I have to watch Primer now.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I'm curious now, too. Handily, it seems to be online!

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

What *is* Primer?

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Here's the website! It's arty and stuff.

[skyflame.livejournal.com]

You can always save it to a flash drive and take it to Kinko's. :P

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

True, but I want the creator to get somethin' out of it.

[stuology.livejournal.com]

I definitely need to keep this one for cubiffice art.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

It's awesome.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

OK that is so awesome.

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

OMG, that is Teh Awesome.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Explains a lot about LOTR's success, doesn't it? I think I'd expect to feel something lacking in any story that didn't have that knot somewhere at the climax, when almost everyone comes together. (And I'd have a "what then?" feeling without the denouement, where they all go off again.)

It occurs to me that one exception would be Peg Kerr's Wild Swans, where the two threads reflect each other rather than coming together - but I'd still expect to see the same knot pattern in each story in that case, and I'd expect the two to have similar graphs.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's interesting to see that compelling stories tend to have complex story, at least as far as character-interaction goes.

[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

MUST SEE PRIMER!!!

the 12 angry men diagram is so funny!!! AAAAHAHAA!!

eta: primer is "watch instantly" at netflix! WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I hear ya!