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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7464319" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Except I don't see a narrator as actually having a character role in the show itself, with the exception of when the narration is done in character by a character who legitimately-within-the-show's-fiction could do it - example: Galadhriel, in character, narrating over the beginning of the first LotR movie.</p><p></p><p>I mentioned this as an unusual possibility that somebody's likely tried. And there you've got an odd situation: yes they are acting, but they're playing the role of a speaker or narrator who is in turn telling the audience what a character does and-or says. They're not directly portraying the character itself. This three-tier process (actor-speaker-character) can't happen in a typical RPG because the actor and speaker are always the same person - the player at the table.</p><p></p><p>Look at Deadpool. When he breaks the fourth wall (which happens in about every other scene!) Ryan Reynolds is not in those moments playing the role of Deadpool the character. Instead, he's set himself apart from the character and has become either a narrator or a detached analyst, depending how you want to look at it. Instead of Ryan Reynolds playing Deadpool, in those moments you've got Ryan Reynolds playing the role of somebody who is talking about Deadpool and-or narrating stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7464319, member: 29398"] Except I don't see a narrator as actually having a character role in the show itself, with the exception of when the narration is done in character by a character who legitimately-within-the-show's-fiction could do it - example: Galadhriel, in character, narrating over the beginning of the first LotR movie. I mentioned this as an unusual possibility that somebody's likely tried. And there you've got an odd situation: yes they are acting, but they're playing the role of a speaker or narrator who is in turn telling the audience what a character does and-or says. They're not directly portraying the character itself. This three-tier process (actor-speaker-character) can't happen in a typical RPG because the actor and speaker are always the same person - the player at the table. Look at Deadpool. When he breaks the fourth wall (which happens in about every other scene!) Ryan Reynolds is not in those moments playing the role of Deadpool the character. Instead, he's set himself apart from the character and has become either a narrator or a detached analyst, depending how you want to look at it. Instead of Ryan Reynolds playing Deadpool, in those moments you've got Ryan Reynolds playing the role of somebody who is talking about Deadpool and-or narrating stuff. [/QUOTE]
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