Does narrative coherence affect a film’s financial performance?
Narrative enables the interpreter to explain the misfit between facts and models. It clarifies discrepancies and fills in absent complexities. Most importantly, it specifies ‘tempo, duration, and pace’ of narrative elements
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As we move up the budget range, we start to see stronger correlations, with horror moving into the stronger cohort of correlated genres.
Maybe the emotional payoff of a fixed narrative is too ingrained in audiences to be eliminated. It certainly hasn’t been easy for Hustwit to adapt “Eno”to the commercial conventions of streaming and DVDs.