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From Fairy Tale to Film Screenplay - Working with Plot Genotypes (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
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From Fairy Tale to Film Screenplay - Working with Plot Genotypes (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
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In Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (1979), Syd Field
first popularized the Three-Act Paradigm of Setup, Confrontation
and Resolution for conceptualizing and creating the Hollywood
screenplay. For Field, the budding screenwriter needs a clear
screenplay structure, one which includes two well-crafted plot
points, the first at the end of Act I, the second at the end of Act
II. By focusing on the importance of the four essentials of
beginning and end, and the two pivotal plot points, Field did the
Hollywood film industry an enormous service. Nonetheless, although
he handles the issue of overall structure expertly, Field falls
down when offering the screenwriter advice on how to successfully
build each of the three individual Acts. This is because Field did
not recognize the importance of another layer of analysis that
underpins the existence of plot points. This is the level of the
plot genotype.This book will offer you a richer theory of plot
structure than the one Field outlines. It will do this not by
contradicting anything Field has to say about the Hollywood
paradigm, but by complementing it with a deeper level of analysis.
Plot genotypes are the compositional schemas of particular stories.
They are sets of instructions, written in the language of the plot
function, for executing particular plots. This book outlines the
plot genotypes for The Frog Prince, The Robber Bridegroom,
Puss-in-Boots, and Little Red Riding Hood and then shows how these
genotypes provide the underpinnings for the film screenplays of
Pretty Woman, Wrong Turn, The Mask, and Psycho. By means of a
detailed study of these four Hollywood screenplays, you will be
able to offer a much richer description of what is going on at any
particular point in a screenplay. In this way, you will become much
sharper at understanding how screenplays work. And you will become
much better at learning how to write coherent screenplays yourself.
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