Storytelling: Learning from the movies
When you see a movie you like, which is your reaction?
- What a great story!
- What a great set of facts!
As lawyers, our job is to tell our client’s story. But we’re handicapped by not being trained in storytelling. St. John’s University law professor Elyse Pepper proposes a solution: using the movies to teach legal storytelling. In The Case for 'Thinking Like a Filmmaker': Using Lars Von Trier's Dogville as a Model for Writing a Statement of Facts, she shows how, using the movie Dogville as an example. Even if you’re not a legal-writing professor, you may learn something from reading it.
“All the fun’s in how you say a thing".
—Robert Frost
Posted by: H Devaraja Rao, Bangalore, India | 22 October 2007 at 02:40 AM