xkcd @lemmy.world Jakylla @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

xkcd #657: Movie Narrative Charts

Title text: In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.

Transcript too long for lemmy, check Explain xkcd wiki to get one ;)

These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicate which characters are together at a given time.

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I've never seen "Primer", but after seeing this chart I'm a bit scared...
- I watched it once in a university cinema. They showed it twice to give people a chance to really understand it but most left, including me because it was so much beyond that a second watch couldn't clear it up.
  
  But yes, I watched it, AMA, but nothing about the movie
  
  I have watched it twice.
  
  I still have no idea if that timeline is close to correct or completely wrong. I still don't get exactly what the end of the movie means. I highly suspect the movie's story doesn't end at the end of the movie, but I have no way to be certain. I still don't know if a couple of people actually died.
  
  Or, in other words, I only watched it twice. I have no idea what the story is.
  
  See, that was your mistake because during the second viewing you from one week in the future would have walked in and explained the plot to you
- It's kind of complex to follow through and they left out a lot of explaining so you have to use your brain. It's a fun but not great movie. However it's the only one with properly done time traveling logic and after watching it, you will see all other time traveling movies as a joke.
  
  Any movie that forces an entire genre of fiction to measure up against it is a great movie.
- Watch it...it's not scary or anything, just really hard to keep track of all the time jumping. Interesting concept though...
- I haven't either but I've heard is a really decent time travel movie
- I don't think the chart is accurate
- If anything, the chart is simplified.
Love the bump for Jabba's addition in the special editions of Star Wars. ~~You'll probably need to go to https://xkcd.com/657/large/ to be able to read it.~~
- Yes, I've edited the picture in the post to use the large one few minutes ago, thanks :)
Somehow palpitine returned.
- https://media.tenor.com/ewG5N8jfWAIAAAAM/magic-henning.gif
Love this one, I had a poster of it in my room
Predestination (2014) would have been a fun one too
- Here you go:
  
  ##O##
  
  Zamn! I look good!
Proximity to Luke seems to be bad for your health.
Wait, but those are lotr interactions in the movies, not in the books
- Hence the title of the chart
  
  You are right, but I'm still disappointed

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