plot twists

[eestlinc]

You know that moment, like in Fight Club, when you realize what is really going on, as opposed to what you had been lead to believe was going on for the whole movie? I like those kind of moments. Do you?

[amratis]

Yeah I like those kind of moments, in a weird kind of way, as they very often raise conflicting emotions.

[Yamaneko]

It's probably not as fun when you're the script writer.

[eestlinc]

but the script writer makes money off it and money is good!

[RSL]

Plot twists are awesome if they make sense. I hate movies where the whole point is plot twists and there's no way to follow it. For an example of this, rent the movie Basic with John Travolta sometime.

[Meat Puppet]

My computer and internet are working fine, next thing I know they're all buggered.

Exciting!

[Del Murder]

It's probably not as fun when you're the script writer.

I don't think so.

[Flamethrower]

You know that moment, like in Fight Club, when you realize what is really going on, as opposed to what you had been lead to believe was going on for the whole movie? I like those kind of moments. Do you?

Are you trying to hint at something?

Anyway, yes, plot twists are great.

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

Foreshadowing is a good thing too.

[Shlup]

The best moment of foreshadowing in Fight Club is when the narrator is beating the crap out of himself and he says he was reminded of his first fight with Tyler. It amuses me.

[Miriel]

Intelligent plot twists are few and far between these days. Everyone should watch the episode "Walkabout" on Lost, that is how a plot twist should be revealed. Brilliant brilliant brilliant.

[Del Murder]

What I don't like are the random ones thrown in that are just there for impact, and don't make any sense otherwise. It's also annoying when you have too many of them. The best stories are carefully written start to finish.

[Ouch!]

I'm fine with multiple plot twists as long as they're relatively easy to follow. There shouldn't be more than one major plot twist, though.

[krissy]

- we have the same suitcase
- you wouldn't believe the dream i had last night / i can barely believe anything about last night / wtf
- sometimes tyler spoke for me
- tyler's words coming out of my mouth


spoiler tags?

[Big D]

I've never seen Fight Club before, but over the years EoFF has completely spoiled every twist and turn in its plot, apparently. I probably don't need to bother now.

I like a good plot twist. Whether foreshadowed or not, a radical change can really come as a surprise, especially when you're expecting a particular twist but it turns out completely differently. Video games are good at this (FFVII, FFX and MGS1 and 2, Syphon Filter 1 and 2 in particular).

Some of my favourite 'foreshadowing' is in The Harvard Lampoon's masterpiece Bored of the Rings. It's not exactly subtle:

"Is there no hope?" gasped Frito. "Is nowhere safe?"

"Who can know?" said Goodgulf, and a shadow seemed to pass over his face. "I would say more," he said, "but a shadow seems to have passed over my face," and with that he fell strangely silent.

Frito began to weep, and Stomper leaned forward, and putting his hand reassuringly on Frito's shoulder, said "Fear not, dear boggie, I will be with you all the way, no matter what may befall."

"Same here," said Spam, and fell asleep.

"Us too," said Moxie and Pepsi, yawning.

Frito remained inconsolable...

Then there's alle the foreshadowing of the death of Bromosel, the pointy-shoed warrior of Twodor:

"We cannot stay here," said Arrowroot.

"No," agreed Bromosel, looking across the gray surface of the page to the thick half of the book still in the reader's right hand. "We have a long way to go."

Earlier in the story, Bromosel recounts an ominous dream in which he is told that he will "cash his chips in at page 88".

It comes as little surprise when he ultimately trips over and impales himself on his shoes after his company surrenders to a Narc ambush.