Editing 657: Movie Narrative Charts
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=== {{w|Primer_(film)|''Primer''}} === | === {{w|Primer_(film)|''Primer''}} === | ||
− | The last box is a movie called | + | The last box is a movie called Primer from 2004, which became a cult classic. It is about a group of engineers who discover a way to travel through time, but only in one direction (backwards) and only at the speed of regular time (i.e. you have to stay in the time machine for one hour to move an hour back in time). Because of this, the story ends up having multiple versions of the same person existing at the same time; the plot and time-travel mechanics are notoriously hard to follow, so that it is almost impossible to figure out where each character is at one time, as the comic illustrates. |
Three lines start on the left labeled Abe, Aaron, and Granger. They enter a mass of scribbling. Somewhere vaguely towards the end, three lines emerge and fade out, all labeled with question marks. | Three lines start on the left labeled Abe, Aaron, and Granger. They enter a mass of scribbling. Somewhere vaguely towards the end, three lines emerge and fade out, all labeled with question marks. | ||
The chart for ''Primer'' is referenced in the title text of the fourth image in the ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]'' ''{{what if|101|Plastic Dinosaurs}}''. | The chart for ''Primer'' is referenced in the title text of the fourth image in the ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]'' ''{{what if|101|Plastic Dinosaurs}}''. |