#1212 Feature Films

The universality of story Feature films are narratives — they tell stories. Even films based on ___ events will fictionalize them in order to produce drama, to telescope time, to avoid being filled up with too many ___ characters, or simply to be more entertaining. Even in the current welter of special-effect movies, feature films are usually summarized by their plots – in their first treatment(or outline of the script idea), in the advance publicity, in the TV guide, in reviews, and in conversations. Films may differ from other ___ of narrative– literary fiction or television drama, for instance in the medium used and the representational conventions. They do, however, ___ with literary fiction and television drama the basic structure and functions of narrative.