Here are the stories in chronological order.Īdam Ewing, in the course of a long Pacific voyage, encounters a Moriori man who has escaped slavery. This movie is made up of six separate but intertwined stories, each with its own genre. It FEELS more like Morality, with Humankind transcending itself–maybe, barely–when individuals overcome their greed or cowardice and become ready to sacrifice all for the whole human race. Genre : The overarching, connecting story is a Pandora’s box about the decline of the human species through escalating disasters caused by our own worst traits, with hope and courage coming out at the very end as love survives among a rag-tag remnant of humanity. Each of the six stories has the expected structure…more or less. Both were intriguing, moving in ways that a straight linear narrative couldn’t have.īecause of the way the movie is arranged, it’s really hard to pinpoint a global beginning hook, middle build and ending payoff, so I’m not even going to try. Loved the book, thought the movie was pretty good. Paradoxically, the Wachowskis had to make the movie more complicated than the novel for it to work.īut did I enjoy it? Yes. I’ll say up front that this movie pushes the boundary of what it’s possible for a movie audience to absorb. Why? Because the structure is alienating. I should just write a straight linear narrative like I’ve done before. I went to sleep last night after immersion in movie thinking I’m just not strong enough or creative enough to structure a story like this. Complex story structures were my choice and boy was this a humdinger of a first shot.
The goal of our podcast this season is to examine a single story principle of interest to our own writing. The rest of us explore different aspects of this complex story to help Anne and everyone else understand how, when, where and why a writer might want to use this kind of narrative form-and whether anyone should. Ĭloud Atlas, released in 2012, is a fantasy film on a reincarnation theme, directed by Lilly Wachowski from a screenplay she wrote with Lana Wachowski and Tom Tyker, based on the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell. To start us off on a really complex note, she pitched Cloud Atlas. Download the Math of Storytelling Infographicįor Season Four, Anne is studying complex story forms.
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