Character: The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page, Stage, and Screen
A film isn’t just moments of conflict or activity, personality or emotionality, witty talk or symbols. What the writer seeks are events, for an event contains all the above and more.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
this happens which forces our hero to make this decision which leads to this confrontation, which is resolved in this way.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
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Looking at your ending, ask: As a result of this climatic action, what value, positively or negatively charged, is brought into the world of my protagonist? Next, tracing backward from this climax, digging to the bedrock, ask: What is the chief cause, force, or means by which this value is brought into his world? The sentence you compose from the a
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