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Gladiator, blade runner and alien
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HOW DOES RIDLEY SCOTT CREATE NARRATIVE STRUCTURES IN: BLADE RUNNER; ALIEN; AND GLADIATOR? A narrative structure is the way a story has been organised, so it is the means of telling the story. There are many different types of narrative structures i.e. novels have chapters, films have sequences and plays have acts and also scenes. These all have a beginning, middle and an end, be it a scene or a chapter or even the whole film. The simplest of the structures is when the scene or sequence follows the story's chronology; this is when things happen in order of time i.e. the earliest at the start and the most recent at the end. A reverse narrative structure would be where the conclusion is told in the first five to ten minutes and then how the situation began, is told. Most narrative structures include a binary opposition; this is the conflict...
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