Every face, every body, came with a potential narrative to tease out.
Once you gain enough experience from your collective feats you can level up your captain by picking among different character traits, each carrying a different set of stats — strength, persuasion, discernment, deceit, etc. — and potential narrative liabilities.
"The Life Aquatic" is thick with potential narrative complications -- involving, for starters, Zissou's long-lost son (Mr. Wilson), estranged wife (Ms. Houston), slimy archrival (Mr. Goldblum) and needy first mate (Mr. Dafoe) -- but Mr. Anderson is less a storyteller than a curator of odd specimens and curious situations.
By dramatising in consecutive chapters events that take place decades apart, Ruge achieves a saga span while avoiding the saga sloth often displayed by chronological treatments, but he refrains from exploiting the potential narrative benefits, such as the license to postpone detail.
"The Life Acquatic" is thick with potential narrative complications -- involving, for starters, Zissou's long-lost son (Mr. Wilson), estranged wife (Ms. Houston), slimy archrival (Mr. Goldblum) and needy first mate (Mr. Dafoe) -- but Mr. Anderson is less a storyteller than a curator of odd specimens and curious situations.
But Microsoft was bewitched by its potential narrative.
On the surface is a potential narrative about what happens when "furries" and nudists get together for some frenzied "yiffing".
Blockchain's hype has brought up many narratives around its potentials — narratives which are typically techno-deterministic, market-driven and follow a Sillicon Valley perspective.
Just as narrative painting has enjoyed a revival, it is not old-fashioned for dance artists to look for potential in narratives.
