A good 75 percent or more of "Monte Rosa" consists of scenes and footage lifted directly from "The Fallen," which have been re-edited and combined with outtakes and some new narration to tell a slightly different version of the same story.
The blogger also noted that the campaign apparently features a second ad, in which the same foreboding narration warns Egyptians not to share information online, on the chance it becomes used by foreign spies against Egypt.
He calls his films works of imagination, and says, "They have nothing to do with reality!," likening his work to that of a director or writer of fictions: "I ask myself the same questions of narration, of abstraction.
And the format itself may be getting a little threadbare: it's the same mix of narration, experts' sound bites, old paintings, period music and actors' voice-overs that has been used in Ken Burns's "Civil War" and many other programs.
There's the same week-by-week narration, intercutting between several story lines, now covering 1973 to 1976.
Other writers use dialogue in the same way they use formal narration: to express profound ideas in complex language with scant regard for realism.
These thoughts can occur within the same chapter or block of narration.
Mind you, it's silly of them not to include both narrations in the same set and just let people choose rather than release two separate sets.
In other words, in case you miss Mr. Rather in the first frame, there he is again in the second one, and the third, and fourth, and so on; its the same with his voice in the narration.
Introduced with the same sort of arch, self-justifying narration of the novel-based Australian version, he is a devoted family man and civic-minded New York City official.
