Author Topic: Good Movies w/ Protagonist Narrating Throughout The Entire Movie? (Read 991 times)

MortSahlFan · « **on:** April 03, 2021, 06:42:51 PM »

I've noticed these kinds of movies get real deep into a character. But they also display the external disparity between what's said verbally to other characters, and what truths the protagonist tells the audience through narration.

"Leon Morin, Priest" is a good example.

Dr Rock · « **Reply #1 on:** April 03, 2021, 06:57:19 PM »

Raising Arizona.

thecuriousorange · « **Reply #2 on:** April 03, 2021, 07:05:37 PM »

"Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here. It all started when..."

Blumf · « **Reply #3 on:** April 03, 2021, 07:26:51 PM »

Blast of Silence (1961) - Technically, not the protagonist narrating, but the voice is from his perspective, with his internal drives. Gives an intense beat-generation noir feel.

Up on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcngW3VrNmU

greenman · « **Reply #4 on:** April 03, 2021, 08:45:28 PM »

Blade Runner

Dex Sawash · « **Reply #5 on:** April 04, 2021, 01:51:59 AM »

Look Who's Talking

MortSahlFan · « **Reply #6 on:** April 04, 2021, 02:35:15 PM »

A Clockwork Orange

druss · « **Reply #7 on:** April 04, 2021, 02:55:14 PM »

Quote from: greenman on April 03, 2021, 08:45:28 PM

Blade Runner

Doesn't happen in the good version(s).

neveragain · « **Reply #8 on:** April 04, 2021, 07:26:04 PM »

American Psycho is pretty good.

El Unicornio, mang · « **Reply #9 on:** April 04, 2021, 07:41:43 PM »

Goodfellas and Casino. I like the part in the latter where Pesci's narration is interrupted by him being smacked with a baseball bat on screen.

lipsink · « **Reply #10 on:** April 04, 2021, 08:50:06 PM »

Quote from: El Unicornio, mang on April 04, 2021, 07:41:43 PM

Goodfellas and Casino. I like the part in the latter where Pesci's narration is interrupted by him being smacked with a baseball bat on screen.

Yep, that's a brilliant moment. I particularly love in Casino when half way through the film out off nowhere Frank Vincent gets to narrate for one scene. Very odd but brilliant.

Magnum Valentino · « **Reply #11 on:** April 04, 2021, 10:12:03 PM »

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Absorb the anus burn · « **Reply #12 on:** April 04, 2021, 10:22:57 PM »

The Four Sided Triangle.

zomgmouse · « **Reply #13 on:** April 05, 2021, 01:25:25 AM »

Sunset Boulevard

chveik · « **Reply #14 on:** April 05, 2021, 01:31:36 AM »

the story of a cheat

Sebastian Cobb · « **Reply #15 on:** April 05, 2021, 01:43:15 AM »

Quote from: zomgmouse on April 05, 2021, 01:25:25 AM

Sunset Boulevard

Double Indemnity as well

GoblinAhFuckScary · « **Reply #16 on:** April 05, 2021, 01:46:33 AM »

Museum Hours comes to mind

mothman · « **Reply #17 on:** April 05, 2021, 02:32:51 AM »

So this is about unreliable narrators?

pcsjwgm · « **Reply #18 on:** April 05, 2021, 02:38:38 AM »

Apocalypse Now

Sebastian Cobb · « **Reply #19 on:** April 05, 2021, 02:47:58 AM »

The Commitments

zomgmouse · « **Reply #20 on:** April 05, 2021, 02:56:06 AM »

Quote from: mothman on April 05, 2021, 02:32:51 AM

So this is about unreliable narrators?

they're all unreliable by ~~the time I've~~ virtue of their subjectivity

timebug · « **Reply #21 on:** April 05, 2021, 09:27:59 AM »

'Fallen' where Denzel Washington narrates his 'own story'

Famous Mortimer · « **Reply #22 on:** April 05, 2021, 03:35:04 PM »

Memory really not helping me here, but there's a Jason Alexander vehicle (possibly "For Better Or Worse", but it's not ringing any bells) which has a constant bed of song, which is the singers narrating the action pretty much constantly.

Sebastian Cobb · « **Reply #23 on:** April 05, 2021, 03:36:05 PM »

Eve's Bayou

MortSahlFan · « **Reply #24 on:** April 05, 2021, 09:01:21 PM »

Quote from: GoblinAhFuckScary on April 05, 2021, 01:46:33 AM

Museum Hours comes to mind

Your avatar is from the Russian movie "Wings" (Shepitko), right?

zomgmouse · « **Reply #25 on:** April 06, 2021, 01:41:38 AM »

Quote from: MortSahlFan on April 05, 2021, 09:01:21 PM

Your avatar is from the Russian movie "Wings" (Shepitko), right?

a 5/5 film

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Author Topic: Good Movies w/ Protagonist Narrating Throughout The Entire Movie? (Read 991 times)