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Passengers, Rearranged

Nerdwriter1 · commentary · Watch on YouTube

Film analysis & criticism

What it is

Nerdwriter1 shows how rearranging the scenes of the film Passengers, so the audience shares the female lead's confusion, would change the movie. It draws on discussion of the original script.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it to illustrate how simply reordering scenes can transform a story.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Just a minor change in order of the same scenes completely changed a movie.”

    Shows how reordering scenes changes a movie

    aequitas, 2018-03 · Recommendation · in “Pixar's Rules of Storytelling (2013)”

  2. “NerdWriter on youtube has a good video on how the change would look”

    Shows how the rearranged Passengers would play

    rtkwe, 2021-06 · Recommendation · in ““The Martian” + Starship”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: passengers, screenwriting, story structure, film analysis, nerdwriter

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