|
|
Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jul 26, 2020 17:09:34 GMT
This is often considered a lazy devise (which it is in many cases) but sometimes it truly works and benefits the film.
The Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
The Wolf of Wall Street
|
|
|
|
Post by pacinoyes on Jul 26, 2020 17:30:28 GMT
Very rarely needed or benefits the film to me but - Apocalypse Now and Taxi Driver are the best examples.........Taxi Driver because the narration at times directly contradicts the visuals which causes a fascinating dynamic.
Memento has it as interior monologue which isn't the same thing but is sometimes thought of that way......that is used to great effect in that film.
|
|
sirchuck23
Based
Bad news dawg...you don't mind if I have some of your 300 dollar a glass shit there would ya?
Posts: 2,720
Likes: 4,829
|
Post by sirchuck23 on Jul 26, 2020 18:13:38 GMT
This is often considered a lazy devise (which it is in many cases) but sometimes it truly works and benefits the film. The Shawshank Redemption Goodfellas The Wolf of Wall Street IMHO Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption is the best use of voice over narration I’ve seen. Could affect your emotion to the story as well as move it along. Honorable Mention to Ray Liotta in Goodfellas |
|
|
|
Post by theycallmemrfish on Jul 26, 2020 18:29:12 GMT
Immediately thought of Shawshank when I saw the thread title, so it has to be that.
|
|
|
|
Post by cheesecake on Jul 26, 2020 20:34:30 GMT
I really love how it is used in The Princess Bride and A Christmas Story. Also a big fan of The Royal Tenenbaums and To Kill a Mockingbird.
|
|
|
|
Post by ibbi on Jul 26, 2020 21:16:05 GMT
Badlands. Works totally at odds with what we see on screen. Tremendous counter intuitiveness.
Days of Heaven. Less brilliant, but lends a film that looks like a hazy dream that further feel of a memory from long, long ago.
Thin Red Line was also pretty great in the way it weaves all these disembodied voices together as one, but after that the god of narration in cinema has gotten as bad with the stuff as the worst of them.
|
|
|
|
Post by TerryMontana on Jul 26, 2020 21:22:03 GMT
Almost every VO Morgan Freeman has done...
The Shawshank Redemption, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Green Mile are some of my all time favs.
|
|
|
|
Post by dadsburgers on Jul 26, 2020 22:34:27 GMT
I can't stand Ray Liotta's narration of Goodfellas- I think it's a big reason I don't really like that movie.
A Christmas Story is by far my favorite narration- simply hilarious.
|
|
|
|
Post by jakesully on Jul 29, 2020 18:32:07 GMT
Definitely agree with the OP regarding The Wolf of Wall Street (recently gave it a re watch and while I can understand how a LOT of folks would be turned off by how crude Dicaprio is in this film, I thought he was hilarious and the narration was great imo)
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2020 6:51:53 GMT
A.I.
|
|
