The Serialised Storytelling in Film: Creating a Completely Furnished World

Abstract

This article discusses the inter-relationship and main contradictions between creative development and the commercial use of serialised stories through an analysis of the two series of films, The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean. The article argues that the existence and development of serialised stories are rooted in people’s pursuit of a “completely furnished world”. Although there is a basic contradiction between the two at present, the development and commercialisation of serialised stories should not be criticised, but rather require more attempts to ease or resolve this contradiction.