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xkcd #657: Movie Narrative Charts (imgs.xkcd.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
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Title text: In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.

Transcript too long for lemmy, check Explain xkcd wiki to get one ;)

These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicate which characters are together at a given time.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

I've never seen "Primer", but after seeing this chart I'm a bit scared...

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 year ago

I watched it once in a university cinema. They showed it twice to give people a chance to really understand it but most left, including me because it was so much beyond that a second watch couldn't clear it up.

But yes, I watched it, AMA, but nothing about the movie

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I have watched it twice.

I still have no idea if that timeline is close to correct or completely wrong. I still don't get exactly what the end of the movie means. I highly suspect the movie's story doesn't end at the end of the movie, but I have no way to be certain. I still don't know if a couple of people actually died.

Or, in other words, I only watched it twice. I have no idea what the story is.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I still don’t get exactly what the end of the movie means.

it means Aaron is creating a giant time machine.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But were they all over the world already? Is the machine under construction or running for thousands of iterations?

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

See, that was your mistake because during the second viewing you from one week in the future would have walked in and explained the plot to you

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

The movie has a plot???

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For one thing, it's not linear.

[-] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a couple of guys use time travel to try to get rich, but they completely fuck up their lives in the process

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

It's kind of complex to follow through and they left out a lot of explaining so you have to use your brain. It's a fun but not great movie. However it's the only one with properly done time traveling logic and after watching it, you will see all other time traveling movies as a joke.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Any movie that forces an entire genre of fiction to measure up against it is a great movie.

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's not as well shot as it could have been and acting could be better. So great in some aspect, yes. Not so much in others. But it's well worth the watch definitely.

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Watch it...it's not scary or anything, just really hard to keep track of all the time jumping. Interesting concept though...

[-] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think the chart is accurate

[-] Razputinsgirth@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I haven't either but I've heard is a really decent time travel movie

[-] crawley@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

If anything, the chart is simplified.

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Love the bump for Jabba's addition in the special editions of Star Wars. ~~You'll probably need to go to https://xkcd.com/657/large/ to be able to read it.~~

[-] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, I've edited the picture in the post to use the large one few minutes ago, thanks :)

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Predestination (2014) would have been a fun one too

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here you go:

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[-] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Zamn! I look good!

[-] LogicalShark@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Love this one, I had a poster of it in my room

[-] Si1versmith@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Somehow palpitine returned.

[-] quinkin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Proximity to Luke seems to be bad for your health.

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wait, but those are lotr interactions in the movies, not in the books

[-] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 9 points 1 year ago

Hence the title of the chart

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You are right, but I'm still disappointed

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