Gretnablue
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If you don’t know what Kishōtenketsu is, it is basically a type of narrative structure used mostly in China and Japan. It started out in Chinese poetry as a four-line composition such as this example by classic poet Du Mu:
Spring of the South:
Thousands miles of birds' singing, light green along the Yangtze river;
Ponds and hills circling the village with flags in the soothingwind;
Amid the four hundred and eighty temples of the South dynasty;
How many terraces are in the misty cold rains?
My question is that do you feel that this type of narrative structure could work in a film type format for a science fiction piece?
Now before you ask, no I'm not one of those people who feel that three act structure is evil and should be gotten rid of. The three act structure is a tool that has been used to great effect with films such as Alien, Die Hard, Jaws, Star Wars, Casablanca, Every superhero film ever made etc. However, I feel that the structure has been used too strictly and as such, all Hollywood films follow it and it has resulted in films feeling the same and lack of creativity and I feel that screen writers should have more creative freedom to experiment.
Spring of the South:
Thousands miles of birds' singing, light green along the Yangtze river;
Ponds and hills circling the village with flags in the soothingwind;
Amid the four hundred and eighty temples of the South dynasty;
How many terraces are in the misty cold rains?
My question is that do you feel that this type of narrative structure could work in a film type format for a science fiction piece?
Now before you ask, no I'm not one of those people who feel that three act structure is evil and should be gotten rid of. The three act structure is a tool that has been used to great effect with films such as Alien, Die Hard, Jaws, Star Wars, Casablanca, Every superhero film ever made etc. However, I feel that the structure has been used too strictly and as such, all Hollywood films follow it and it has resulted in films feeling the same and lack of creativity and I feel that screen writers should have more creative freedom to experiment.
