The PROTAGONIST must be empathetic: he may or maynot be sympathetic.
Byronic heroes, anti heroes, etc.
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he PROTAGONIST may also have a self-contradictoryunconscious desire.
creates a conflict
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Inlife,experiencesbecomemeaningfulwithreflectionintime. Inart,theyaremeaningfulnow,attheinstanttheyhappen.
William Wordsworth believed that poetry is "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origins from emotion recollected in tranquility" (from Lyrical Ballads).
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Gene Fowler once said that writing is easy, just a matter ofstaring at the blank page until your forehead bleeds. And if any-thing will draw blood from your forehead, it’s creating the climaxof the Jast act—the pinnacle and concentration of all meaning andemotion, the fulfillment for which all else is preparation, the deci-sive center of audience satisfaction. If this scene fails, the storyfails. Until you have created it, you don’t have a story. If you fail tomake the poetic leap to a brilliant culminating climax, all previousscenes, characters, dialogue, and description become an elaboratetyping exercise.
I heard somewhere that, when writing a story, start with what your interested in. First, write the scene you are most excited about and then fill in the blanks with other, less exciting scenes. It makes the process easier. It also doesn't mean you can't tweak or scrap anything as well. Writing is a process.
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he revelation of deep characterin contrast or contradiction to characterization is fundamental_inMajor characters.
This makes a character REAL. No person is made up of one or two things. There are branches and layers and roots. Everyone is their own iceberg influenced by other icebergs.
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onsciously and unconsciously, it wants to know your“Jaws,” to learn how and why things happen in your specific world.
Yes! Like how entire languages are made for a movie universe! Cultures, religion, etc.
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Duration
It is so interesting how films can be set over the span of years, months, days, and even hours. I really like zombie media and it's interesting how each film/show (even the difference of having episodes vs two hours is important in pacing) divide their time. It's also possible to extend seconds into more or shorten days into moments. It feels like time travel.
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When TENDER MERCIES premiered, some reviewers describedit as “plotless,” then praised it for that.
Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929). I watched this entire silent documentary film. The best way I can describe it is a film that tells a story without a fixed plot. It's made up of various scenes of ordinary life in Soviet Russia. It shows the progress of a day as well as the progress of making a film. I've never heard of Tender Mercies, but I assume it is different structurally.
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If you see someone drenched ina downpour, this has somewhat more meaning than a damp street.
how does the inclusion of an entity affect how an audience receives a certain scene/emotion? How can a screenwriter tap into human connection? How can they create distance?
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Yet,inandbetweenscenes,wecometoknowallof hispast,everythingofsig-nificancethathappenstoSledgeinthat year,until thelastimagegivesusavisionof hisfuture. Aman’slife,virtuallyfrombirthtodeath,iscapturedbetweentheFADEINandFADEOUTo
ways to show history/backstory/context without always using flashbacks. What objects, facial expressions, lingering moments, etc. can express.
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