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Herakles is wrongfully accused of murdering his family, he sets off to find the true killer.
Plot points are parts of one overall plot. ?And a plot is about a protagonist pursuing one objective goal. ? For your consideration, a discussion of what Aristotle meant by "unity of action" and how it applies to screenwriting. ?(Truth in advertising: ?I am the author of?replies 2 and 5 ?in the discRead more
Plot points are parts of one overall plot. ?And a plot is about a protagonist pursuing one objective goal. ? For your consideration, a discussion of what Aristotle meant by “unity of action” and how it applies to screenwriting. ?(Truth in advertising: ?I am the author of?replies 2 and 5 ?in the discussion thread.)
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See lessI.E.D is a dramatic thriller about an environmental engineer taken hostage and forced to pilot a car rigged with explosives across country. Now he must escape his captor before this rolling bomb reaches it?s destination – transcontinental oil pipeline.
Uh, wouldn't a transcontinental pipeline be buried under ground? ?So how can a car bomb ram into it?
Uh, wouldn’t a transcontinental pipeline be buried under ground? ?So how can a car bomb ram into it?
See lessEnglish teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feeling.
Like Nir Shelter, I think the paradigm of the Hero's Journey contains many useful tool-terms for building plots. In fact, I was tempted to do a post rendering DPS as a Hero's Journey for the students but I just don't have ?time to do it justice.Except to point out that in the Hero's Journey paradigmRead more
Like Nir Shelter, I think the paradigm of the Hero’s Journey contains many useful tool-terms for building plots. In fact, I was tempted to do a post rendering DPS as a Hero’s Journey for the students but I just don’t have ?time to do it justice.
Except to point out that in the Hero’s Journey paradigm, the professor fills to overflowing the role of the Mentor. ?He’s the character who initiates “the Call” to ?the boys to carpe diem, sieze the day. ?In that paradigm, I would nominate Neil as the Hero because he’ takes the lead in responding to the Call. ?Neil finds the yearbook for Keating’s graduation year and the reference to the DPS. ?He leads the group into “Crossing the First Threshold” to the cave to re-institute the DPS.
However, when it comes to writing the logline, I stand pat with my version with Keating in the spotlight. ?Because:
1]It’s not an inaccurate representation of the script/film. ? But then, neither would a logline spotlighting Neil. ? Hmm, ?sort of a Rashomon situation — two different descriptions of the story, both of which are substantively accurate?
2] Here’s what tips the scales for me: IMHO, the logline spotlighting Keating– which, is after all, the starring role — is more marketable. ?If DPS still only existed in script form, I think the Keating logline would stand a better chance of getting the script read.
And I don’t recall a counter argument to my pov in the form of a ?logline with a student as protagonist. ?(Or did I miss it?)
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