Movies are power! They are used to generate money (sometime A LOT of money) and to transform ideas and imaginations on to the screen.
A regular Hollywood movie is divided into three acts (the syd field) with the first act being the most important one. In the first act, you (the audience) will gain information about:
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| The syd field |
- What the film is about.
- Who the lead character/s is/are.
- The time and place of the movie
After that an incident will occur before the Plot Point 1, which is a hook in the action that spins the movie in a different direction.
A normal plot for a Hollywood movie consists of five elements:
- The lead character has to be believable and sympathetic. Consistent in his/her action. The goal is to get the audience to wish for the character to succeed.
- The character will experience an urgent/difficult problem that has to be solved
- The character attempts to overcome the problem
- The last stand/Climax. The character succeeds/fails.
- Resolution = Happy or Tragic ending
In the movie ''Rubber'', directed by Dupieux, there are no sympathy for the main character. Why? Because the main Character is a car tire who, after discovering his destructive telepathic power, goes on a killing rampage. The plot point 1 in this movie is when the tire tries to kill a woman driving a car, but fails. He then gets obsessed with the woman since she got away from him and starts his hunt to track her down.
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