On Monday, July 24, 1995 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-6, Conor Buescher wrote:
I have a question regarding screenplay structure. In reading Lew
Hunter's, "Screenwriting 434", he pretty much pounds the three act
structure of storytelling into your brain with a large mallet.
Essentially - get the hero up a tree, throw rocks at him, let him
come down from the tree.
In the supplements of the "Godfather Trilogy" there are Coppola's notes
for the Tragedy of Michael Corleone, which consists of five acts.
I DONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK I AM DOING HELP ME
Is the five act structure more in lines with Shakespearean drama? Or
is it the three act structure with the second act broken into more
distinct pieces? Allowing each piece to build upon itself. This would
be more in line with Dona Cooper's book, "Writing Great Screenplays for
Film and TV", in which she discusses building roller coasters for the audience.
In watching films myself, it seems easier to break them down into
a five act structure, rather than a three act structure, at least for
me, or are they really all three acts and I'm just fooling myself?
Any comments? What works good for the rest of you guys?
Conor Buescher
bueschc@python.cs.orst.edu
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