Joseph Campbell
-
Save the Baby! On the Benefits of the Three-Act Screenplay Structure
Poor old three-act structure. It gets hammered away at, like an old punching bag, every time someone wants to challenge the primacy of the formulaic Hollywood screenwriting methods. “Take that! You follow-the-dots, color-within-the-lines, stodgy old armature!” Poor, poor three-act structure. So much to offer. So misunderstood. What if I were to tell you that in the 2,500-year history of Western dramatic literature, three-act structure is actually a radical new innovation? What would you think if I also said that its radical impact, towards the end of the 19th century, was to finally free dramatists from a highly proscriptive, closely dictated […]
by Jennine Lanouette on Nov 19, 2014
© 2024 Filmmaker Magazine. All Rights Reserved. A Publication of The Gotham
