Voice-over
narration is a technique commonly used in film, theatre or television
productions in which a voice, that is generally non-diegetic, occurs in
the course of a work’s narrative.
Usually
uttered by a character from within the work, voice-over typically aims
to elucidate a story’s development and mise-en-scène, thus creating
elements of structure and continuity. It can be used as a way to recount
past events and create an ambience, but is also recurrent in
non-fictional films, such as documentaries or televised-news, due to its
characteristically informative nature.
However, by
reflecting on which motion pictures have employed the most significant
uses of voice-over narration, we can discern films that often transcend
and defy this method’s conventional expectations.
Though
voice-over is a technique that frequently causes debate in the cinematic
world due to the claim that a film is inherently narrated – and thus
that a supplementary voice would merely interfere in the storyline, it
is surely due to the work of some remarkable screenwriters that
voice-over has proven its ability of not necessarily intruding, but
enhancing the effect of a narrative.
This list is
an attempt of categorising the films with the most effective and
innovative uses of voice-over narration in a somewhat suitable order,
with the effort of avoiding to merely classify them on a best-film
basis.
We can find
works with varied but distinctively creative ways of employing
voice-over, some based off literary works in order to preserve the
author’s language, and others with entirely inventive uses – rather
justifying why several were either nominated or won the Academy Award
for Best Original Screenplay.
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