The Art Of Starting A Movie At The End 

well ofc, it's another masterpiece

I gotta watch that because I keep hearing how bad 2nd one was and how the 1st was a classic

Flashbacks are different than non-linear storytelling

@@qjames0077right. It’s a way to introduce the characters without doing so with the main story. This is the situation. This is how we got here. Now enjoy what’s next.

Flashbacks are by definition, non-linear story telling, they're different from Call backs.​@@qjames0077

You're right! The diner scene bookends the film, but the end of the story is Butch saying, "Zed's dead" and riding off in victory.

Pretty close though tbf

@@SwanChairUh Not really. The _whole_ Butch storyline takes place after the diner robbery. When we first meet Butch, he's in Marsellus' bar and Vince and Jules come in in the clothes they're wearing at the dimer.

You’re confusing story with plot. Kinda the whole point of the movie too 😅

@@MrOtistetraxit’s all really confusing, pulp fiction is my favourite movie of all time but I still can’t tell the order of the story 😂

Yeah, this is a tough one. Flash forwards and or flashbacks are a bit different than non-linear storytelling. Memento is a fantastic example of this

Spot on! FYI it’s “en media res.” But using that kind of introduction doesn’t mean there will be any flashbacks or exposition. I love it when you’re dropped right in and need to figure out WTF is going on and who these people are. If you like this style and the fantasy genre, the book series Malazan Book of the Fallen is considered one of the best in the genre and does en media res in a way that I still think about.

​​@@qjames0077I agree, Memento is arguably the most perfect example of this given the nature of the main characters short term memory loss which makes him the ultimate unreliable narrator when pointing out the plot holes in his story created by his condition.

@@revwolfe You're both wrong. It's "in medias res"

Heck it's probably my favourite of Nolan's. You're right, it often seems to be forgotten.

'prestige' is one of the best films ever made, imo. seen it many times. the first minute or so, as well as the last pack a real punch. and though it doesn't come anywhere close to prestige, 'a simple plan' also opens with the main character speaking from the future. this one's another masterful and mostly forgotten film.

literally everybody talks about it 😭

@@bettercallfrog you really think so? I just saw 'a simple plan' and was reminded again of how many awesome films have been totally ignored/forgotten.

12 Monkeys is great but it's no Die Hard or Fight Club

Have you scene Brad pitt recent work. Pretty good stuff.

​@@AMAli-ct5dfHe just might make something of himself... But "scene", really?

“To make any sense of it, I have to go back. Back to the night the pain started”

same for Part II: The Fall of Max Payne. But it'll always be that scene with Max on the tower with that grin of his.

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That game was so awesome

Max Payne games are some of the best. I don't care to play on higher difficulty or whatever. I want to play, and replay fluidly, and "watch the movie". Great dialog and cut scenes. I recently replayed MP3 in one sitting, and really appreciate the loading segments. You don't even want to skip them once you even can. They're key parts of the story and character development. I also like how every kill is unique and the ops react to how and where they're shot. You can decide to play more tactical if.you want, or you can throw in that bullet time Matrix shit if and when you want. Great game. A decade on (MP3), and it's aged super well.

it started at the end of the movie though

@@button9That means absolutely nothing and has no impact on the story. OP was right. Furthermore, the beginning of Pulp Fiction gives no information that establishes it as “the end” (or even the middle. Unlike, let’s say, Lawrence of Arabia, where we learn right off the bat that the title character is dead. From there, the entire movie leads up to that point. Pulp Fiction doesn’t follow this mold. The two characters the movie starts on are rather inconsequential to the story overall. It’s just a badass way to start a movie.

The key word as used in this video is finale, which I the case of Pulp Fiction wasn't the end of the story line.

Except Hollywood movies don't have a three act structure. The "middle" is a misnomer for the usually two but sometimes three major parts that occur between the setup and the climax. Hollywood movies thus have either four or five part structures. For example, in The Fugitive, the "middle" consists of two distinct parts. The first goes from when Kimble chooses to flee the wrecked prison bus, for the very sensible reason that he doesn't want to be executed, to when he jumps off the spillway to avoid being recaptured by the US Marshalls. This is a turning point. The second part of the "middle" sees him change direction literally - he goes back to Chicago - and metaphorically - he is no longer simply trying to escape, now he is obsessed with finding out what really happened the night his wife was murdered. So this movie has a four part structure: setup, complicating action, development and climax.

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An unforgettable movie!

He really wanted her feet on cam

Yeah I zoned out of the video for like 30s chewing on that because that didn't sound right. His name was Leonard.

Agreed, Pulp Fiction used this to their advantage, as well as telling the story out of order by following three different groups.

I forget the movie even starts the way it does. I’m so used to that insomnia sequence and plane scene, that’s what I always think of when I think how the movie starts.

Probably the best use of this technique as it is contextually relevant to the plot unlike any other movie, except maybe Momento

Or, in the case of pulp fiction, we don't even know it's the end and realistically that opening scene has no bearing on the overall story. The robbery doesn't tie into the story as a whole it just gives space for a characters development. I think this adds to that scene because you want to know how it plays out but then you almost forget about it until it hits again and gives such a profound moment for one of the main characters.

Yeah something is off sync, I can’t even listen to it

The Fugitive?

Then you have terrible taste in films