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SCREENWRITING > RUN LOLA RUN
This is a group assignment. The results must be the product of teamwork and collaboration. Individual submissions will not be accepted, and the activity will be graded with a 0. If you are absent
from class, contact the instructor. Students:
Zhang, Keyang
Ho, Mindy
Li, Ruina
1] Run Lola Run presents three narrative lines. Write the summary for a fourth one–an ‘alternative’ path
.
Please make sure that the structure includes these elements:
What does Lola do at the beginning? What is her plan for saving Manni?
What does she encounter or faces on her way to save Manni?
What is the final resolution?
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Attached is an interesting reference on how the film is structured. Here are the quotes for two passages:
In ‘Run Lola Run’,
“each version of the story is shorter than the last, compelling the viewer to memorize the preceding version in order to understand what is going on. Likewise, probabilistic causality and optionality are recurrently emphasized in the presentation of identical events that engender different outcomes in different versions, compelling the viewer to compare and evaluate them (e.g., when Lola in all three versions brushes the same passerby as she runs, each such encounter generates a brief sequence of rushing stills portraying a different potential life trajectory for
the passerby). What is important in the probabilistic causality characterizing each narrative trajectory in between transitional junctures is not its apparently inevitable failure, but its turning each optional narrative track into a viable option for viewers to consider.”
Ben-Shaul, 130
“In these movies, crucial transitional junctures are usually placed at dramatic crossroads construed in such a manner that they guide the viewer to expect and accept the “what if?” optionality suggested in the transitional juncture. A meaningful “what if?” process is encouraged because these films offer a coherent, suspenseful, dramatic build up toward these narrative-track transition
junctures, and a coherent and suspenseful follow up to them in the alternate option. In Run Lola Run the viewer wishes for a different closure in the first two versions upon learning that Lola and Manni respectively have been killed. Such closures enhance the viewer’s willingness to entertain as feasible the “what if?” optional conjectures offered in the succeeding versions, each reframing in an alternate narrative track a coherent and suspenseful follow up to this juncture.”
Ben-Shaul, 131
Ben-Shaul, Nitzan S. Cinema of Choice: Optional Thinking and Narrative Movies
. Chapter 4: Optional Thinking in Movies.
4.2.2.1. Movies with Optional Narrative Tracks: Run Lola Run and Sliding Doors Pages 126 - 133
RUN LOLA RUN / Alternative Path:
In the beginning she sprints and passes her mom, in the process asking her for money, but is rejected, losing some time. After running past the nuns, she encounters the man whole stole a bike and is trying to sell it to her. In this alternative, she takes him up on his deal, and with the pocket money she has on her she takes the bike. With the bike, she is able to travel faster on it. Manni is still in the phone booth.
During this time, Lola’s father is having his conversation with his mistress about her baby. While riding her bike, Lola runs into Mr. Meyer pulling out with his car. And he hits her accidentally.
Because of this accident Lola becomes injured and is kind of bleeding. This accident also causes Mr. Meyer to be late for his meeting with Lola’s dad. Because Mr. Meyer didn’t show up on time, Lola’s dad finds out that his mistress’s baby is someone else’s which makes him very mad. Lola finally makes it to the bank with her injury, interrupting her mad dad in his conversation, but because she is disheveled from her accident, her dad is extremely annoyed with her request and gives her no money.
She realizes she might be late for Manni, and decides she should just go meet up with him first and stop him from robbing the market. Manni currently is now debating to rob the market but as he was going to, the gang his owes money to shows up at the same time. And stops him in his tracks, threatening him for the 100,000 which he does not have. When she finally arrives and sees Manni, she see the gang facing off with Manni, she makes eye contact with him, saying she made it, but Manni gets shot/killed by the men he owes the money to.
Lola gets off her bike, rushing towards Manni while bein injured and bawls on her knees holding him in her arms. The gang members show no mercy to her seeing as she’s affiliated with Manni, and they shoot her
as well.
The both of them drop down on the ground and they die holding hands.
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