[ SECRET POST #2386 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2386 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/hAJhP0D.jpg

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is Malcolm from the TV show "Malcolm in the Middle". He is a young boy with short curly brown hair, lightly tanned pale skin and wearing a white T-shirt. He is sitting at the edge of a bed in a bedroom. He is talking directly to the camera.]

No matter what the fictional medium, I find the relationship between the audience and the first person narrator to usually be both the most fascinating and under-analysed.

[lex_antonia]

I agree! First person can be absolutely brilliant or completely dreadful, and I find that how a medium deals with this question often makes the difference between one or the other.

[intrigueing]

Oh FUCK yes!!! Especially the ones where it's not only written in first person, but you get a sense that the first-person-narrator actually knows they are talking to an audience...and there ISN'T a framing device (e.g. like Watson writing for the Strand) and you can speculate about just who the narrator thinks s/he's talking to because it's left ambiguous...it's so cool to try to imagine what the character is thinking while they narrate. Especially when they get really creative about it, like when the narrator asks the reader rhetorical questions or goes "oh, but I digress" or "dear reader" and stuff. Or in visual mediums, stuff like Ferris Bueller magically throwing up text onto the screen to illustrate his point.

Btw, because the bg pic made me think about it -- has anyone else wondered if "Malcolm in the Middle" refers not only to being a middle child, but being in the middle between the audience and the other characters? I dunno, it crossed my mind once a while ago and it kind of entertained me to think about...

[making_excuses]

Scrubs does this, or am I remembering wrongly?

[intrigueing]

I especially like the parts in Scrubs where they lampshade the sound effects and stuff, bringing into question how much of what's going on is actualfax real and how much is JD's imagination embellishing his perspective onto the events :)

[forgottenjester]

I really like first person when done well. It is easier to fuck up, sadly.

This secret kind of reminds me of one of my old classes I had years ago. It was an introductory class and when we went over different points of view I remember the teacher really had to work with some students to help them see it as a legitimate perspective.

[(Anonymous)]

I usually hate when a show breaks the 4th wall. Most of the time it's to move a plot forward or fill some gap in the plot. It's almost always used as an easy or lazy way out.