Talk:Hyperlink cinema

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Contents 1 Categorization 2 ID4 3 Sin City 4 Too many examples

[edit] Categorization

Wait, how is Reservoir Dogs hyperlink cinema? As far as I can remember it all revolves around the 5 main characters, and they're all together right from the beginning. Luvcraft 15:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

And how is City of God a "canonical example" of hyperlink cinema? It is mainly told from the point of view of the photographer, with some omniscience into scenes that he was not a part of. There were hardly many different story arcs, and it is not "characterized by globe-spanning locations, multiple languages, ... strict parameters in terms of art direction, cinematography and mise en scène are used in each story line, ... use of radically different cinematography to define each arc."

Either the definition is screwy, or the list is. I'm removing City of God, but more importantly: we shouldn't be including items in this list just because some random person happened to mention them in a blog posting. Either this is a well-defined term, and there is agreement on what makes a movie an example of "hyperlink cinema", or this list is basically original research. 128.197.120.31 [not logged in, Asbestos 15:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ID4

Would 'Independence Day', directed by Roland Emmerich, be considered a hyperlink film?

"The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth." Find an authoritative source stating it is, and you can add it. If there's no such source, don't. Chuck 21:53, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sin City

Hi! Since the characters' lives are being portrayed in somewhat parallel narratives which intersect at certain points, would this be a good example of the aforementioned category? Thanks! Heavenstorm 22:24, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I don't think it is--I would call it an anthology rather than a hyperlink film (and yes, I'm aware that characters from each storyline appear in the others, but they don't really interact), but admittedly that's a very fuzzy line. But I'm no film critic so what I think isn't really relevant. Is there an authoritative source that says Sin City is an example of hyperlink cinema? If so, go ahead and add it to the article, and cite the source, and you'll already be ahead of the other examples here. Chuck 21:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Too many examples

Everyone is putting in pictures that have flashbacks or more than two plot lines—technically, this would include Stars Wars and Citizen Kane. I'm going to prune off the spurious examples, because they're that—spurious. Hope no-one has a cow.--TallulahBelle 20:13, 13 March 2007 (UTC)