Narrative is always one of the most important elements that people look at when viewing and comparing between films. All narratives have a basic structure and the simple three-act structure is the most commonly used (Gillespie 2006, 96). However, “the same narrative may take many different forms, appear in myriad ‘substances’ and genres” (Gillespie 2006, 88). Therefore, filmmakers make great effort in planning and organising the narrative structure, in order to demonstrate the plot in its best way. The following paragraphs will briefly analyse three different films in terms of their narrative structures, which are used to develop the characters and the stories. These films include Titanic(1997), Juno (2007), and (500) Days of Summer (2009).
