Global Scriptwriting

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THE ASCENT OF VOICE

 

There have always been film storytellers whose voices were more dominant than the stories and their characters. Luis Buñuel and Jean-Luc Godard are among the most important. As we saw in the last chapter, Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino have been very assertive in using structure and character to focus their ideas—about power in the case of Kubrick, and about the influence of the media in the case of Tarantino. What is notable in the past twenty-five years is that filmmakers are far more bold about their own ideas than was the case in the past. This may be because of the perceived power of the medium. For the longest time, particularly in the United States, film was considered an entertainment medium, ...