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Good Movies w/ Protagonist Narrating Throughout The Entire Movie?

Started by MortSahlFan, April 03, 2021, 06:42:51 PM

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MortSahlFan

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


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

Blumf

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


Dex Sawash




neveragain


El Unicornio, mang

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

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


Absorb the anus burn


zomgmouse


chveik



GoblinAhFuckScary


mothman




zomgmouse

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

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

Famous Mortimer

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.


MortSahlFan


zomgmouse