LIterary devises in today's media

In non-western writing, many techniques and devises are used to tell a story. These seem to escape the western writing of America and those of most European writing. We find them used more inside other works 0f literature from other parts of the world. They seem to be creeping into the media today like television shows and movies. Below are three literary devises and examples of movies in which they are used.

*Frame Tale (a story inside a story): The movie that pops into my mind here is The Princess Bride Staring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright Penn. This story is actually portrayed as a grandfather reading (and painting a vivid picture of) this fairy tale to his sick grandson. The story switches back and forth from the grandfather sitting at the grandson's bedside reading the book aloud to the fairy tale being acted out.

*Blending Story and History: Be Kind Rewind Staring Jack Black and Mos Def. This story, though a comedy and "spoof-ish" one at that, it does mix a story and history together. A small VCR movie rental place decides to make their own movie so that they can raise enough money to save the store from being demolished. They take actual historical events and mess them up a bit to create a documentary on this one Jazz Singer.

*Multiple Prospectives: What Women Want staring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. In this movie, one man is given the ability to hear and understand what women are thinking. This lets not only him, but the audience in on what is being thought by multiple characters, not just the main character.

*Then there are some that contain several different devises. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button staring Brad Pit, Cate Blanchett, Julia Ormond is one example. In the story it follows the life of one man as he was born into old age and slowly grows younger. In the story, it explores dates in history as they co respond with the main character's action. It is a frame tail because, like in The Princess Bride, his story is being told as a girl reads his diary out loud to her dieing mother and it switches back and forth from his life story to the hospital. It is also has Multiple prospectives because after they finish reading his diary from his point of view, the mother tells the last part of the story to her daughter, telling her daughter what happened to herself and the man after the last entries in the diary, taking up her own prospective instead of his.