42 Essential 3rd Act Twists
Awesome breakdown of storytelling clichés -- many of which occur in films, of course -- from cartoonist Dresden Codak. A tiny taste:
The whole cartoon is here. Don’t be drinking anything while perusing it unless you want to ruin your keyboard.
I especially like the categories of “Shyamalan” and “Double Shyamalan.”
See also Codak’s newest toon, “Caveman Science Fiction” -- hilarious.
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(links here are good for finding recent posts, but will not be fully functional till I finish tagging 11 years worth of reviews and blog entries; I'll post a notice when tagging is done)
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posted by amanohyo (Sun Oct 25 09, 5:11PM)
Thanks for the link, some of those are pretty funny (unreliable reader is my favorite). I think the name of the comic itself is Dresden Codak, and the cartoonist is Aaron Diaz.
posted by LaSargenta (Sun Oct 25 09, 5:18PM)
Factoid of the day: Petard means "fart". So, "hoist by your own petard"!
posted by the rook (Sun Oct 25 09, 6:42PM)
even better, how many of those plot points have been used in Doctor Who over the years?
posted by bronxbee (Sun Oct 25 09, 10:41PM)
it might have originally meant a fart, but a petard is an explosive device that must be hoisted upon a doorway or entrance... it was carried by one poor guy through a gauntlet of the enemy's arrows and rocks and he had to nail a large hook or nail upon the doorway and hang the petard (hoist) it up, set off the fuse and run like hell. sometimes he got hung up on the hook and/or the enemy's arrows pinned him to the door as the explosive went off. ergo, hoist upon his own petard.