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Re:Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan... by mathgeek on Saturday February 18, 2017 @07:17AM (#13674562)
Clerks actually has a lot of polar changes in that filler, though. As the topics of conversation change, your mind goes with it and your emotions shift. Similar to other "geek out" movies.
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Re:Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan... by iopq on Sunday February 19, 2017 @03:37AM (#13678753)
Of course, if it didn't it would just be boring. But it does have things that are funny for the sake of being funny.
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Re:Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan... by PunchTornado on Saturday February 18, 2017 @02:35PM (#13676275)
if everything is a polar change, nothing is a polar change.

having a boring conversation about nothing doesn't make it a series of polar changes.

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Re:Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan... by rhizome on Saturday February 18, 2017 @04:06PM (#13676674)
On the contrary, and just pulling a number out of my butt because I haven't watched in in awhile, I'd say there's like 20 conflicts and resolutions throughout the course of the plot. Maybe this makes the movie more of an epistolary than the three-act structure that movies are normally compared against, so zooming out until some overarching consistency emerges is not always the most faithful mode of analysis.
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