MagisterFlopsy
Since: May, 2021
Jan 22nd 2022 at 3:34:59 AM
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I'm thinking this should be classified as an omnipresent trope. I mean, name one movie that doesn't have one of these.
Edited by MagisterFlopsy
Is there a role here for the Establishing Shot in literature? Every Discworld novel, for instance, begins with a long description of the Discworld seen from the outside and Pratchett uses the language of the script to explicitly say this is scene-setting. Moving Pictures is pretty explicit in lampshading that its opening paragraphs are an Establishing Shot - fitting, for a novel dealing with the fantasy equivalent of epic Hollywood movies.
Edited by AgProv Male, early sixties, Cranky old fart, at least two decades behind. So you have been warned. Functionally illiterate in several languages.