Narrativa: el flashback y la estructura de contrapunto aplicado al guión de largometraje 2050

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is the theoretical-practical study of flashback and counterpoint structure, starting with the analysis of the narrative construction in films, until obtaining tools and integrating them into feature film scriptwriting. The first section explores the concept of flashback and its two most common forms, circuit and bifurcated, based on the philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1987). In addition, the structure of counterpoint is approached from the notion of music according to the French composer Michel Chion (1993). In the second part, a corpus of essential films on flashback and counterpoint structure was elaborated, to begin with, we find Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles, then we analyze the film 21 Grams (2003) by Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu and we conclude with the film The Skin I Live In (2011) by Pedro Almodóvar. Finally, in the third section, we detected relevant techniques and methods within the flashback and counterpoint structure. Finally, on this theoretical basis, the writing of the feature film script 2050 is established, thus conceiving fundamental pillars for future hypotheses and questions in the chair of film writing.