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Chapter 3 Narrative 叙述 Narrative This chapter attempts to : Define the basic terms used to analyze narratives---Narrative, Story, and Plot. Describe the commonly used the Classic Three-Act Linear Structure (经典三幕式直线结构). Describe other Alternative Narrative Structures---the episodic structure and the “Hero’s Journey” structure. Describe the varieties of subplot. Narrative Narrative refers to the way that a story is told. It is principally concerned with the way that events are organized in time and space---the way in which the scriptwriter and director take the raw elements of a story and arrange them in the most attractive and interesting way. Hollywood has developed its own set of informal principles to guide the creation of film narratives; it has also evolved a relatively well-defined structure for their organization. Narrative Narrative, story, and plot are the basic terms used when analyzing the narrative structure of a film. Although they are sometimes used interchangeably, they also have more precise meanings that can help us to draw some useful distinctions. David Bordwell and Kristin Thomas in Film Art---An Introduction《电影艺术入门》define them as follows: Narrative Narrative A chain of events in cause-effect relationships(因果关系) occurring in time and space. Story All the events that we see and hear, plus all those that we infer or assume to have occurred, arranged in their presumed causal relations, chronological order, duration, frequency, and spatial locations. Plot All the events that are directly presented to us, including their causal relations, chronological order, duration, frequency, and spatial locations. The key distinction is that between story and plot: Story is the viewer’s imaginary construction of all the events in the narratives---whether presented to us or not---while plot is the film’s actual presentation of certain events in the narrative. The Classic Three-Act Linear Structure The majority of Hollywood films employ the class