If a movie talks about something it should be played out in the plot
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lukejbarnett — 4 months ago(November 17, 2025 07:41 AM)
So watching the ITN distribution movie called Freddy's Fridays and the escort pimp girl says to the hot blonde cop investigating an escort being missing.
The escort pimp girl says you look quite good you could be an escort but the cop didn't act interested. So it looks like she's not going to be an escort.
I think it's like a rule isn't it that if a character says something exciting to another character that hasn't been in the plot they have to then show this happening right? Bc otherwise it's teasing and not pleasing the audience and what they want they don't get. It's like lying to the audience even bc I think this is a rule.
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Hugh Jass — 4 months ago(November 17, 2025 08:38 AM)
Boohoo. Too bad you got teased and not pleased. Another time you didn't get to see a woman nekkid.
You little perv you. It's hard to believe you're too stupid to realize that when you make a post like this, people see exactly what a skeevy little perv you are. -
Paul P. Powell — 4 months ago(November 29, 2025 10:25 PM)
Yes, in a perfect world it would always be adhered to. It's a good principle in both stage and screen.
However, not following it doesn't
automatically
make a bad narrative.
I agree it can tip a weak film into a terrible one.
But there's plenty of successful productions which sidestepped it and it didn't hurt.
Just as an aside: many of the best principles of theater come from Aristotle. I forget if this one, was his also.
Either way –in today's imperfect world –we can't always follow his advice.
The world has fundamentally stayed the same since his time, but in many crucial ways, we've irrevocably split away from him.
Paul P. Powell, Pool Player