Movies may be the best thing ever invented! They can make you laugh, cry, angry, annoyed, scared, confused, shocked, smarter, dumber and any other type of feeling you can thing of. It is magic.
But how do people create this magic? It's not as easy as it may seem. That is why some movies does better than others. If you want to make money, you need to make a good movie, and that is why you need to know HOW.
A man named Syd Field knows how. And this is how he explains it (sort of).
A regular movie is divided into three acts:
Act 1: Setup
Act 2: Confrontation
Act 3: Resolution
Act one- The setup
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This is where you find out
-Who the film is about?
-Who is the lead character?
-What kind of person are they?
All of these questions should be answered within the first 30minutes of the movie.
By the end of this act the first plot point comes. A plot point is a hook in the action that spins it around and creates direction.
In a normal Hollywood movie there are five elements of a plot:
- A believable/sympathetic lead character
- Their urgent/difficult problem
- Their attempts to overcome that problem (the hurdles)
- The last stand/climax
- Resolution
In this movie, "Rubber", you get no sympathy for the main character. The main character here is a small car tire who discover that he has telepathic powers, and uses these powers to kill everything on his way. It is a very mean tire! The plot point 1 in "Rubber" is when the tire tries to kill the woman in the car, but fails. It gets frustrated cause she got away, and makes it his mission to find her.
"Rubber"
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