CUTAWAYS | PROGRESSIVE COMPLICATION
Progressive Complication is how your protagonist ricochets from bad to worse all the way from your inciting incident to the film’s climax.
In this episode we look at some principles that can keep your audience on the edge of their seat as your characters’ situations spiral out of control…exactly as you’d planned.
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In this film we use examples from:
The Lego Movie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/
The World’s End - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213663/...
Slumdog Millionaire - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/...
The Matrix - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/...
Wild Wild West - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120891/...
Hot Fuzz - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/...
Die Hard - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/...
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ScreenStories CUTAWAYS are self contained little bite-sized screenwriting tutorials and discussions. Each episode explores an element, theme or topic of storytelling.
The ideas presented in this series are of course not my own, but rather my own collection of lessons that particularly resonated with me, which I’ve tried to organise in a way that feels practical. However I should give special mention to the following inspirational teachers and sources which have contributed tremendous amounts of material to what’s included in this series.
Robert McKee - https://mckeestory.com
Blake Snyder - https://savethecat.com
John August - https://johnaugust.com
Craig Mazin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_M...
Syd Field - https://sydfield.com
John Yorke - https://www.johnyorkestory.com
Bang2Write - https://bang2write.com
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Most of the content here is in the form of writing tutorials, but art-is-more-art-than-science, and rules are meant to be broken, so please tell me if you disagree with anything in the videos, or would like to offer alternative perspectives on any of the topics.
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