But it's true that, in the late seventies, it was not every young filmmaker's dream to craft an hour of narrative history, for television.
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And praise be, after scores of British sitcoms based around the nonspecific, warm, fuzzy feeling generated by people being kind at each other, a half hour of narrative comedy that bursts with jokes.
Nigel's rewrite smugly depended on the audience sitting through two hours of tense narrative, tarted up with witty dialogue, clever plot surprises, and lush settings.
The problem with the previous Final Fantasy was that it almost entirely did away with the exploration part and simply made the game a linear series of about 1,000 battles against mythical creatures tied together by hours of noninteractive narrative.
After hours of non-narrative student cinema, it was a welcome relief.
In The Hours, the presentness of narrative is a choice of tense.
Best of all is the pre-credit sequence in which a traffic cop is passed, again at night, by the Corvette, at nearly two hundred miles an hour: a model of narrative economy, like the gag with the alien headlamps in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
The bartender serving up frothy pints of stout runs through some Mack Sennett-like silent comedy shtick and, after hours and hours of experimental non-narrative, it goes over gangbusters.
