... events I thought significant and which may affect the audience. The chart looks at the film's story or fabula and plot or syuzhet. Bordwell and Thompson (1990) define fabula as "all events in a narrative, both explicitly presented and inferred." This is indicated on the chart as events 'in the past' which are revealed by way of 'flash backs' of information. For example, Travis says he was honourably discharged from the marines in 1973. Syuzhet is defined as "everything visibly and audibly present in the film before us; in other words those highly selected parts of the story which the narrative puts before us." This is marked on the chart in the form of 'highlights' from the plot. I have tried my best to include dates and times where given. After looking over events in the film that I thought were important in creating an effect on the audience, I ...

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