![]() Obviously, it isn’t the be-all and end-all of story, but it allows for neat, dramatic structures in which we set up a character’s world, shake that world to its core, and force them into making drastic, affecting choices. This is story at the atomic level, and it’s rare to find a film that doesn’t adhere to it in some form or other. “All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.”Īt its most basic level, a story in film concerns a central character or characters, a drastic change in their lives that presents some form of choice or goal, and then their subsequent attempts and/or failures in response to that change/goal. This places certain pressures on narrative structure that other media don’t have to stick to quite as rigidly.
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