mith-gifs-wrestling:Here’s an example: Kofi Kingston’s climb to WrestleMania, one of the most powerf
mith-gifs-wrestling:Here’s an example: Kofi Kingston’s climb to WrestleMania, one of the most powerful stories in modern wrestling. It’s definitely fiction, a story carefully paced and structured to achieve maximum emotional impact. But in a movie or a book about a brave wrestler who suffered and overcame the odds, you can create 2019’s Kofi Kingston in a few concise sentences, you can start the story with a fully-formed character. The very first sentence of a book can be: “As Kofi Kingston prepared for his gauntlet match, he thought back on the last eleven years of hard work and sacrifice, eleven years of reaching for the stars and never quite catching them,” and there he is, the beloved underdog veteran summoned from nowhere with a few keystrokes. There are no shortcuts like that in wrestling: no, we have to actually wait eleven years for Kofi Kingston to become the character he needs to be for this story; we have to witness each and every accomplishment and every single setback as they happen. There’s no other storytelling medium like it: exasperating and tedious, breathtaking and totally absorbing. It can break your heart.It can save your life.——————“Real Time: On the Rhythms of Wrestling Storytelling,” is up now at Spectacle of Excess. -- source link