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1. Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 08:54:42 JST Wolf480pl

   Finding-lost-city/treasure type of adventure movies tend to have chains of clues, each pointing to the next one.

   But I think it'd be more realistic if they had clue trees - shorter chains with multiple hypotheses, branching off into "dead ends" that, while not leading to the goal, give you a better look at the big picture, making it easier to interpret the clues you already had or walked past.

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 08:55:47 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @wolf480pl I presume this is a narrative expediency thing...

     Narrative expediency is very rarely realistic, but most audiences accept it!

   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 09:50:18 JST Wolf480pl

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     • Adrian Cochrane

     @alcinnz yeah and I'm not saying people should stop making these movies.

     I'm also not saying people should make more realistic adventure movies (I think I'd enjoy watching one, but one viewer won't pay the costs of making an entire movie).

     But this chain-of-clues pattern did break immersion for me

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 09:52:13 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @wolf480pl It may be interesting for some movies to break with narrative expediency in some way or other (e.g. not centering a single protagonist), but I certainly wouldn't ask that of every movie!