Re: [-empyre-] _Active Narrative Gathering_

["][mez][" <netwurker@hotkey.net.au>]

At 12:17 AM 13/06/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >Realistically, it is about time the
> > viewing public started to accept that new genres of films are on the rise,
> > films more influenced by CGI fx, martial arts flicks and video game
> > aesthetics than by traditional film conventions. The point of this movie
> > isn't necessarily to do with whether it flows correctly, how the
> chronology
> > works, how adequately we identify with the characters or how believable it
> > is."
>
> Yeah...
>
> Its like in anime/hong kong cinema if someone can fly nobody questions it,
> they just can, they are cool.


yus indeed.

been thinking about this whilst in the shower [*y* do i seem to have all my 
good ideas there atm? - it used 2 b baths that would do that;)]

this x.tract is actually from an online mag i'm currently employed by. when 
the link goes live i'll post the link to the whole article [perhaps? if 
that's permissible?]

anyway, wot got me musing was having watched "The Animatrix" [gawd peter 
chung is a demi-manga-god - remember aeon flux from liquid teev?]...9 short 
animaction [yeah i can't help neologising sorry] movies which piggyback off 
and reveal plot nuances/x.tensions of _Matrix Reloaded_. in 1 of the 
shorts, the gaping qs of the origins/story point of the 
Neo-fawning-boy-child n.countered in the _Matrix Reloaded_ movie is 
s.sentially answered....+ this sparked off a chain of thought centering 
round the idea of ANG [_Active Narrative Gathering_]

...by ANG i'm referring 2 how some m.mergent forms of 
art|n.tertainment|simulcra r interconnected via narrative threads b.yond 
parent forms/individualised media constrictions..ie if u want the complete 
narrative picture [ie 
join-the-story-dots-campbellesqueness-hero-journey-style] that is available 
when watching _MR_ u *must* watch/collude with satellite|parallel 
constructions that enhance [ie offer loadings] that complete the story 
jigsaw - like _Enter the Matrix_ video game + The Animatrix.

it's a bit like the easter eggs n.countered on dvds....secret hotspots that 
1nce found offer additional info regarding the main feature....

this isn't a new phenomenon.....look at _Twin Peaks_ for instance [movie 
series, book (The Diary of Laura Palmer], and movie]..but it seems to 
becoming a more dominant pattern...look at _Donnie Darko_ [movie + website] 
+ _The Blair Witch Project_ [book, movie, website]...not to mention 
_AI_...........also the conversion of comics/books in2 film, games in2 film 
[_The Final Fantasty_ game + film].......

its like audiences r n.couraged 2 step outside the restrictions of 
mono-media absorption channels + actively seek additional narrative 
components elsewhere...bit like an ANG cultural engine i guess.....




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