Since John Grisham has recently taught us about foreshadowing, many other artists are eager to use this cutting-edge device. Ideally, when foreshadowing, you want to drop clues subtle enough that the reader won't focus on them, but concrete enough that later, while the reader may be surprised, they don't feel duped. You can also foreshadow in film! But the problem with foreshadowing pregnancy is that when you drop clues, the audience immediately knows what's up because the symptoms of pregnancy have been broadcast to death. If a woman has had some kind of sex and all of a sudden has to pee lots, feels hungry, tired, or nauseous, pukes, craves pickle-and-mustard sandwiches, faints, doesn't fit into her favorite jeans, or wonders where her period's gone, we all immediately know she is pregs. I don't want to spoil the plot of this film I saw recently, so I'll just call the movie Rabie Llama -- in Rabie Llama, a woman does some of the things listed above and the audience collectively suffered with the obvious until the adoreable reveal. If anyone can think of a unique way to foreshadow pregnancy, I will tip my metaphorical hat to them. RATING: 17%
Posts
4 comments:
Every time a woman between the ages of 14 and 55 pukes, on T.V. or in real life, I wonder if she's pregnant.
Our son's babysitter is 7 months along, and she's eaten 4 bars of Ivory soap in the past 2 weeks. Her doctor told her this was perfectly safe, but she has little burns all over the inside of her mouth.
Another thing is if in movies anybody ever coughs even once then that means they have some terminal illness and will die soon.
That's so true. Foreshadowing has some serious kinks to work out.
I don't know about elements of writing like foreshadowing (maybe you learn that in grad school), but I do know that Knocked Up really sucked.
Post a Comment