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Post #520117

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TheBoost
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What!?!? aka Missing Exposition
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Date created
5-Aug-2011, 7:59 PM

You know who did exposition great? "Star Wars."

The opening crawl is short, gives exactly what's needed just to explain the first scene.

Imperial politics? Three sentences.

Ancient Jedi knights? Maybe 90 seconds of talking combined.

Elaborate backstory between Vader/Obi? Three lines of dialogue.

That pretty much covers all the exposition in that movie.

I read somewhere that people describe "Star Wars" as fast paced, when really it's a somewhat slow paced adventure, largely due to the bare minimum of exposition used.