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Prequel (from English. prequel) — is a work set before the events of the original work, meaning it is a backstory.
If sequel tells what happened after, then the prequel explains what happened before — how the heroes, events, conflicts or world we already know arose.
For example, there is a movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001), which opens the main story, and there is "The Hobbit/The Hobbit" (2012–2014) <TAG1> is a prequel that tells about the events decades before "Brotherhood".
The prequel helps to better understand the origin of the characters, the causes of conflicts, the development of the world or ideas.
The main thing to understand is that a prequel is not the "first part of the series" if it was created after the main story.. If first they removed part 1, then 2, and then the third, which tells the events of part 1, — is a prequel.
Prequel <TAG1> is a work that explains what happened before the main story, deepening the world or revealing the origins of key events.
Term "prequel" (prequel) came up well after "sequel" <TAG1> and became commonly used only in the second half of the 20th century.
The word itself prequel formed as a play on words by analogy with sequel:
- from latin prae- (before)
- part of the word -quel (as in sequel)
The earliest recorded uses of the term are in the 1950–60s, but it was then considered a neologism and rarely appeared in literature or the press. The term came into cultural circulation more widely in the 1970–80s, when the film industry began experimenting with «stories before the events of the main story».In the 1990–2000s, the word "prequel" became popular and well-known, especially after George Lucas' Star Wars prequel trilogy (Episodes I–III) which followed the original films, but were chronologically pre-existing.
Term prequel officially appeared in Oxford dictionary english in 1972. Since then, he has established himself in media, pop culture and even academic terminology.
One of the first prequels of — "Another Part of the Forest" (1948), drama directed by Michael Gordon. This film is a prequel to the play and the film "The Little Foxes" (1941). It follows the youth of the characters who were the protagonists of "Little Foxes". This is one of the first examples where a film was deliberately shot as a backstory for another pre-existing film. Although the word "prequel" was not used then, it is essentially a prequel.
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