Dramatic_Structure_In_Memento

Dramatic Structure In Memento Dramatic structure is the basic form in which a presentation is set up. It includes elements like theme, action, crisis, and climax. Basically, it is the way that the author/playwright sets up the action of the piece of theatre. Memento is a psychological mystery about a very confused, desperate man named Leonard Shelby who has lost his short-term memory. Piece by piece he is trying to reassemble the bits and pieces of his life, to re-create the mess that his life now is. But each couple of minutes, he forgets everything again. In this film, director, Christopher Nolan, chose two very specific dramatic forms to help tell his story. The first form was that the action of the film moved backwards in non-sequential order. The beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. The second dramatic form that he used was that he had two individual plots going at the same time. There are individual scenes in black and white that play in between the color scenes. The monochromatic scenes move forward. At the end of the film, when Leonard kills James, the black and white and the color scenes come nolan, audience, dramatic, film, very, specific, scenes, form, christopher, trying, end, action, white, way, structure, shock, piece, message, life, leonard’s, color, black, believe, beginning, backwards, while, wanted, understand, two, time, structures, shoes, shelby, second, same