Comments on: The Great Voice Over Debate https://www.thestorydepartment.com/the-great-voice-over-debate/ Story. Screenplay. Sale. Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:12:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: All Time Best: Opening Voice Over | In Bruges Opening Voice Over | Best Movie Moments | The Athletic Nerd https://www.thestorydepartment.com/the-great-voice-over-debate/#comment-605 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:12:35 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=9630#comment-605 […] The Story Department | The Great Voice Over Debate […]

]]> By: Tonkywoo https://www.thestorydepartment.com/the-great-voice-over-debate/#comment-604 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:14:00 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=9630#comment-604 Justifiable voice over = Annie Hall, esp. the cinema queue scene.

]]> By: BrigittaV https://www.thestorydepartment.com/the-great-voice-over-debate/#comment-603 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:29:45 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=9630#comment-603 Gee, didn’t Sunset Blvd. begin with a voice-over?

]]> By: Steve https://www.thestorydepartment.com/the-great-voice-over-debate/#comment-602 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:17:16 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=9630#comment-602 Some other well-done voice-overs are The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, Double Indemnity, and American Beauty.

The Wonder Years, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, and My Name is Earl are good examples from TV.

]]> By: Chris https://www.thestorydepartment.com/the-great-voice-over-debate/#comment-601 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:24:47 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=9630#comment-601 Two more recent films with V/O’s that spring to mind:

– Zombie Land
– Kick-Ass

Not as highbrow as some of the titles mentioned above, but these worked and worked well.

Chris.

]]> By: Steve https://www.thestorydepartment.com/the-great-voice-over-debate/#comment-600 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:09:51 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=9630#comment-600 In reply to Karel Segers.

Hi Karel,

From memory, I’m not sure that most of his films have narration but a few that he has used it well in are:

Barry Lindon
A Clockwork Orange
his unproduced Napoleon screenplay

]]> By: Karel Segers https://www.thestorydepartment.com/the-great-voice-over-debate/#comment-599 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:56:09 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=9630#comment-599 Just read on IMDb that pretty much every Kubrick movie has narration.

Curiously I don’t seem to remember those. Except, I’ve only just seen BARRY LYNDON and that one opens with a great example of successful voice over.

]]> By: Steve https://www.thestorydepartment.com/the-great-voice-over-debate/#comment-598 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:50:06 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=9630#comment-598 I agree that voice-over can be done well and poorly, and should not be used in all cases or be absent in all cases.

It can be used similarly to character thought and narration in written fiction. These things can, however, be replaced by action on the screen, but that doesn’t mean they have to be.

Some people think that if something can also be done in written fiction or theatre then it is uncinematic but I think anything that can be done in cinema can be cinematic.

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