Cinematic narrator
David Bordwell argues that there is no such thing as a cinematic narrator. (Note that the cinematic-narrator is not the same as the voice-over narrator that we’ve previously discussed.) What do you make of this argument? If there is no one “telling the film,” how do we know it’s a story? Do we imagine that someone is telling the film, and if so, who?
In “Travis, B.” we have a third-person limited narrator who only presents things from Chet’s point of view. How would the story be different if Meloy chose to shift perspectives in the way Sembene does in “The Promised Land”? Is it possible to adapt third-person limited narration to the cinema? How might a film adaptation of this story suggest that we are seeing things from Chet’s point of view?
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