Exposition Torture
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Here is a comic about my absolute greatest weakness. Please, I beg of you, be careful with the immense power you now have over me.
I don’t get it. Like, at all. Can someone please explain?
Supposedly exposition (just up right explaining things rather than showing them) is a big no no in movies.
I don’t get it either. It saves time and gets things on track so much faster than having to pick part half an hour of ‘showing’
Note the “terrible” in “terrible exposition”. Kristian isn’t saying exposition is bad. He’s saying that terrible exposition is terrible and he hates it. As for the last panel: it turns out it’s hard to represent “terrible exposition” in a single comic panel. And yet the example indeed seems pretty bad: why on earth would an older sibling ask a younger sibling how long they’ve been siblings? Makes absolutely no sense. (No idea if it’s an actual quote from some shitty movie or not, doesn’t even matter.)
Ah, ok, now I get at least what this is about. Thanks! :)
Exposition is often done in movies as it’s better to “show” than to “state”. That said, natural exposition can be challenging, and as a viewer it can be really cringe when it feels unnatural, something that answers a question but people would NEVER say in real life.
Here, asking a baby brother how long they’ve been siblings, is an example of what would be terrible exposition, though this particular sentence hasn’t been said in a film as far as I’m aware.
Ah, I see you’ve also watched *INSERT TOPICAL MOVIE HERE*
Really it was such an average script, they could have tried harder.
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Man, I can totally relate. It’s like exposing your soft underbelly, right?