In Reversal of Fortune, the narrator's brain-dead, but she does technically survive the movie.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Strega - Sep 15, 2006 5:38:22 am PDT #4196 of 10001
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 5:42:59 am PDT #4197 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In Reversal of Fortune, the narrator's brain-dead, but she does technically survive the movie.
Oh gawd. Now I'm imagining movie narration along the lines of Terri Schiavo's Blog....
Hayden - Sep 15, 2006 5:48:00 am PDT #4198 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Terry Schiavo wrote The Path to 9/11!
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 5:49:27 am PDT #4199 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hee!
She's also the ghostwriter for Ann Coulter, I bet....
Sean K - Sep 15, 2006 5:50:58 am PDT #4200 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Jack is narrating in Fight Club and he survives.
Sean K - Sep 15, 2006 5:51:29 am PDT #4201 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
And there's also the original release of Blade Runner.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 15, 2006 6:10:25 am PDT #4202 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and FULL METAL JACKET both have surviving narrators (Kubrick had other narrated films, but they were 3rd-person omniscient ones).
As does APOCALYPSE NOW.
Oh, TAXI DRIVER, GOODFELLAS and MEAN STREETS too (although that last one only has it near the beginning).
Nutty - Sep 15, 2006 6:18:25 am PDT #4203 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
And Black-Irish O'Hara, from The Lady from Shanghai. Film noir is full of narrators (since a lot of the novels were in the first-person), and one film noir is even shot as if the camera were the eyes of the main character (memfaulting on the title, based on a Westlake novel IIRC). That was one of those honorable-failure movies, that they had to do to prove that, although it could be done, it couldn't be done in a way that didn't look silly.
Strega - Sep 15, 2006 6:27:34 am PDT #4204 of 10001
I'm not sure if it's what you're thinking of, since it's certainly not Westlake, but The Lady in the Lake is shot from Marlowe's POV.
Dana - Sep 15, 2006 6:28:48 am PDT #4205 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah. And then have the characters stand around, not sure what to do.
That happens in Sondheim's "Into the Woods."