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Passengers, Rearranged

Passengers, Rearranged on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2018–2022.

Nerdwriter1

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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.

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2018–2022
“NerdWriter on youtube has a good video on how the change would look”
— rtkwe, Jun 2021, in ““The Martian” + Starship”

What HN commenters said

4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

rtkweJun 2021Recommends

Yeah but it wouldn't have been tempered by growing attached to Pratt's character and we would get to experience the same feeling of confusion as JLaw's character. NerdWriter on youtube has a good video on how the change would look, does a better job of selling it than I ever could: ▶ this video

in ““The Martian” + Starship” · View on HN

aequitasMar 2018Recommends

A good example of the rearranging is from Nerdwriters YouTube ▶ this video Just a minor change in order of the same scenes completely changed a movie.

in “Pixar's Rules of Storytelling (2013)” · View on HN

clarkdaleDec 2022Cites it

It would be interesting to watch an edit played in chronological order. A similar response was made to Passengers[1], where if it is NOT made chronologically, the director could have an opportunity to push the theme entirely close to a horror genre. 1. ▶ this video

in “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing” · View on HN

joshuahedlundJun 2021Cites it

The movie could have been great if it was oriented around the female passenger waking up and not knowing what had already happened before instead of the audience knowing everything linearly ▶ this video

in ““The Martian” + Starship” · View on HN

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Film analysis & criticismpassengersscreenwritingstory structurefilm analysisnerdwriter