Talk:Slice of life story
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Hi
Who knows other interesting SLICE OF LIFE STORIES (or films)?
Let me know...
thanks
Bernie 20:12, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] No Plot?
It is untrue that a 'slice of life story' is defined by a lack of plot-- the story can have a plot-- the best works in this genre tend to have a clear plot-line. It's the art of making the story seem as if it was just a random moment and then-- finding the significance in these random moments and the drama etc. that make this type of work popular. Some slife of life stories seem to be plotless, but not all. Lack of plot isn't a defining factor here.
I think this article has a negative tone and it should be more balanced. I think the statements about slice of life having "no-plot" need to go. You could say: "some may not even have a plot..." but making it sound like the goal is to write something without a plot is absurd. futurebird
- I agree. I added a POV tag about that for now... --Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 08:26, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Well I am going to look around, but saying that Slice of life has no plot is not even close to what it the genre is. I wil modify to the best of my ablities.--Link25 23:11, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] then how about an example or two?
I do not think the article so far (which I wrote) has a negative tone - in fact, I love some slice of life stories (see examples). Also I think your arguments are interesting, but if you think "the best works in this genre tend to have a clear plot-line", then please give us some examples! Bernie june 23, 2006
I believe you did not intend it to be negative, but when I read it, it seemed sort of dismissive, as if it described a lazy or haphazard way of writing. I think of slice of life as a kind of realism having the following two characteristics, at least:
- The characters represent only themselves, unique personalities we are getting to know for their own sake, rather than stock characters serving as allegories.
- All of the story takes place in a linear fashion within a clearly defined period ("slice") of time, with no use of flashbacks or flash-forwards. Any background information we need to know about the characters is revealed through conversations or actions taking place in the present.
In this category I would place the films of James L. Brooks ("Terms of Endearment," "Spanglish") and many other comedy-dramas, such as "The Weather Man," which I saw today. Richard K. Carson 04:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Quotes?
I agree that the article is imbalanced. More pressing, in my opinion, is the "quotations" section. These quotes seem to have nothing to do with the "slice of life" genre, except that they are quotes taken from works that are said to be in that genre. If the quotes are relevant to anything, they're relevant to the works themselves, and in any case they belong on Wikiquote, not Wikipedia. I'm taking them out. 69.140.12.199 16:40, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- Also - Calvin and Hobbes? Friends? How are they any more "slice of life" than any other comic strip or sitcom? There are probably more on the list that don't belong there, but I don't know them well enough to say. Also, the "weblinks" section doesn't really seem to belong. I'm tempted to just slap a {{cleanup}} tag on the whole damn thing, but the article's got enough hideously ugly tags as it is. It definitely needs fixing, though. 69.140.12.199 16:45, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
