The Art of Exposition - Best and Worst of Exposition in Film/Television

[Hugbox Kommissar]

The opening narration to Fellowship of the Ring is up there.

One of my personal favorites is the opening to Serenity. Starts off as a school lesson except it's really one of River's hallucinations except it's actually a flashback to Simon breaking her out except it's actually the Operative reviewing a recording of the events.

 

[gorgoroth7134]

The opening narration to Fellowship of the Ring is up there.

I could listen to Cate Blanchett narrate a semi-busy intersection for four hours straight.

 

[TATE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!!]

I fucking HATE the use of news casters to keep you up to date with situations.

 

[Power Ranger Monster]

Inner dialogue, as seen in the 80s Dune flick and early Simpsons, has yet to has reach its full potential and perhaps if refined years ago we could have avoided decades of clumsy dialogue.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

If it isn’t explained to me via a terrible song and dance number I don’t want to hear it.

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

Inner dialogue, as seen in the 80s Dune flick and early Simpsons, has yet to has reach its full potential and perhaps if refined years ago we could have avoided decades of clumsy dialogue.

comic books do that a lot

 

[Cougar Pump]

Not sure it's exposition as much as it is breaking the fourth wall, but the (very) end of RockNRolla was the most ham-fisted shit I think I've ever seen.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I feel like tvtropes autists turned exposition from something very straightforward to being incredibly tiresome. As long as you don't stop the story too hard nobody gives a shit, trying to be fancy with exposition is pointless when you have to twist the film to make it work.

 

[The Nothingness]

Exposition works for me when it feels like a natural conversation. I think good example is in first Mortal Kombat movie.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

my favorite was when Terry Davis told me about how he and his cousin sucked each others cocks.

 

[Pomniman]

I feel like tvtropes autists turned exposition from something very straightforward to being incredibly tiresome. As long as you don't stop the story too hard nobody gives a shit, trying to be fancy with exposition is pointless when you have to twist the film to make it work.

But it is tedious when it's done badly no matter what any of the fags on that site think. Though the solution to that is to just not read or watch so much abject slop made by and for barely sentient retards.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

But it is tedious when it's done badly no matter what any of the fags on that site think. Though the solution to that is to just not read or watch so much abject slop made by and for barely sentient retards.

If just the act of depositing exposition ruins the pacing then either the script sucks or the writer sucks so bad that exposition is the least of his trouble. It's basically a phenomena derived from channels like CinemSins that just takes a tiny part of a film and acts like it really impacts things.

 

[6thRanger]

I hate that cliche in movies where it begins with a freeze frame and the main character goes “Hey, this is me. You’re probably wondering how I got in this situation”

These days I enjoy it tremendously due to how much it's been memed.