We are floating up a steep scrubby slope. We hear male voices gently singing "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and a deep, affable, Western-accented voice - Sam Elliots, perhaps:
VOICE-OVER
A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he
SAM ACE ROTHSTEIN, a tall, lean, immaculately dressed man approaches his car, opens the door, and gets inside to turn on the ignition.
ACE: (Voice-over) When you love someone, youve gotta trust them. Theres no other way. Youve got to give them the key to everything thats yours. Otherwise, whats the point? And, for a while . . . I believed thats the kind of love I had.
(Suddenly, the car explode
voice-over narration
over the empty bed.
VERONICA (V.O.)
Heather told me she teaches people
Real Life.
INT. HIGH SCHOOL HALLWAY--DAY
Continuing her narration, VERONICA glides through a bustling
high school hallway with a frozen smile.
VERONICA (V.O.)
She said Real Life sucks Losers dry.
If you want to fuck with the eagles,
you have to learn to fly.
INT. HALLWAY OUTSIDE CAFETERIA--DAY
With her bac
voice-over stuff...
JANE
Let me tell you something, man. You stay here. You
stay here and you play daddy, okay? Im gone.
JOHNNY
Jane!
SCENE 4 Jane is packing her things, finds an
advertisement in the newspaper asking for a driver to
drive to the west coast.
SCENE 5
JANE
That was in 78. I was supposed to be the new Aretha,
but the old Aretha was the new Aretha and I was
neither one, so I was
DEVON (voice-over): Once upon a time in a far off land lived a girl and her mother and father. Their village was surrounded by a high wall. Outside the wall was the forest, home of Babi Yaga, the witch. Babi Yaga had iron teeth to cut through trees. His legs were chicken legs and he ate little girls for dinner. But inside the wall, the girl was safe.
SCENE TWO
TRENT is mowing the lawn and stops
VOICE-OVER]: Jazz and baseball.
- Faster.
LYLE:
The sax I picked up on my own.
The baseball, that was my dad.
Taught me everything I know about it.
And it got me an athletic scholarship
to San Francisco State.
My older brother Lane went straight from
high school to working to help the family...
...so Im gonna be the first
to go to college.
Jazz and baseball.
ROOSEVELT [ON RADIO]:
Yesterday...
...
VOICE-OVER
For Peace, prosperity, for all of us: Dont change
Horses in...
ANGLE
A CORRIDOR OF THE WHITE HOUSE, AS AMES AND THE MAN IN THE RATTY JACKET (BREAN)
WALK HURRIEDLY. AMES FINISHES ONE CIGARETTE AND USES THE BUTT TO LIGHT A
FRESH ONE. THEY PASS BY A LARGE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BACK OF A MAN, BENDING TO
SHAKE HANDS WITH ONE OF A LINE OF GIRLSCOUTS. AMES GLANCES UP AT THE
PHOTOGRAPH AND SHARES
VOICE-OVER
There used to be a staff of fifty in this place. Im the only one left from those days. It all comes down to one sap: the night-shift bellhop, thats me. What the hell is a bellhop? You know where the name comes from?
(silence)
Of course not... Its so simple its stupid. They ring a bell and you hop. You hop to front and center. No heroes in this line, kid. Just men doing a job. No quest
voice-over. An interior monologue.
Maybe even the voice of God.
Pudgie, dont smoke.
- Actors.
- What? Lets askthe technicians.
Do you think its morally right
to promote smoking to the youth of America?
- Theyre biased. Thats a mistrial.
- This session costs the studio thousands.
If you want a paycheck, stickto the script.
If you want to play Gandhi,
then do it on somebody elses time.
Then Ive got
voice-over) 내레이션을 사용할 때 복잡해진다(p.337, 8-4 드럭스토어 카우보이, 미국 1989). 보통 화면 밖에 있는 내레이터는 스토리 속 인물이기도 하며 사건을 해석하는 데 일조하고, 반드시 중립적이지도 또한 감독의 대변자도 아니다. 영화의 스타일에 따라 내레이션도 다르다. 사실주의적 영화에서 내포