Flashbacks Page 2

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ November 22 2012, 9:24 PM GMT

Do you remember when this thread started?

*Harp plays & thread goes all wibbly

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Quote: Lazzard @ November 21 2012, 4:14 PM GMT

One for movie-buffs, really.
Can you think of any film examples where someone is flashing-back, yet within that flashback we see scenes where he wasn't present.
Written down I seem to be getting away with it - but the logic is worrying me.
If I knew it has been done before - with some degree of sucess - I'd feel a lot more relaxed.
All thoughts welcome.

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It's shit like this Freve, shit like this that makes me want to kiss you!

Fot those interested, this is the academic position:

This from the expert on flashbacks, Maureen Turim, author of the definitive work: "Flashbacks in Film: Memory & History"

Flashbacks are located along the permeable boundary where memory meets history. If flashbacks give us images of memory - the personal archives of the past - they also give us images of history, the shared and recorded past. Flashbacks in film can - and to some extent inevitably do - merge the two levels of remembering the past - giving large-scale social and political history the subjective mode of a single, fictional individual's remembered experience.

The key challenge to the film-maker is to ensure that the audience understand the relative temporal context of the scene they are viewing. As long as the audience is not confused by the switch in time-frame, the flashback can - and inevitably will - depict contextual history as well as memory.

I think that means yes.

What about doing in from someone's POV? (a bit like Homer Simpson did, though that was a bit extreme). If something is thought to be there but isn't, the person's memory is to blame.

"Homer, you loved that film, Rashomon!"

"That's not how I remember it!"