Sometimes, punctuation in captions can provide important clues about what’s going to happen, regardless of how well or poorly timed the captions are.
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Category: Timing
Prematurely revealing the natives as cannibals in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Movie captions should never reveal information prematurely. In this example, the captions give away a key plot detail before the narrative is ready to do so.
If movie characters could read closed captions, they’d glimpse the future
Caption readers sometimes know what’s happening before the characters themselves. In this way, captions tell the future.
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How captions tell the future
Captioning technology and conventions allow us to glimpse the future, at least sometimes.