Sometimes the show feels like an episodic series masquerading as a story with a longer narrative arc.

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The second reason this book needs three movies is that a trilogy better mirrors the narrative arc of the book.

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It was as if the creators distilled the essence of the character into a perfect story representing the most important themes and narrative arc.

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As much as it is documentary, it had a narrative arc.

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The exhibition's narrative arc is formulated much like a Bond film: visitors pass through M's office, where Britain's top spy received his mission orders, to Q Branch, where he picked up his latest gadgets.

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That sounded like a decent narrative arc.

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"There's definitely an art to be able to write a song that on one level is a pop song and one that also has to tell a story and keep an audience engaged in terms of a larger narrative arc, " he says.

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On one level, the book follows the narrative trope that drives so many celebrity memoirs: the rags-to-riches story arc.

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