With the third installment of The Dark Knight Trilogy, Interstellar, and Dunkirk, the best war movie of the last ten years, we were braced for Tenet this summer. This is especially as Inception came out ten years ago. I keep thinking of my interview with Vicki Peterson and Barbara Niccolosi. Many like and just about all respect what Christopher Nolan does, even if his stories lose their way halfway through. The Why also reveals why many movies matter, which is part of the reason for the title of this website. My family and I appear to consider why before acting much more than before the pandemic hit. In these uncertain times, we appear to consider our actions, when and whether to leave home, or walk away from the writing places and machines on which we explore and express our imaginations. The Why beneath characters’ actions reveals who they are and what the story is about, or not about. To borrow Blake Snyder’s words, will we be institutionalized? Will we embrace Buddy Love during our Stay-in-Place order? And my favorite genre of the Save the Cat beat sheets, Whydunnit, seems always buried in stories. As he head into October, or Preptober on many levels with fall already here in many places, we have to act. With Fitzgerald’s equation, it’s when we move, act, have decided and therefore propel the action of a story, that drives us from one beat to the next. Otherwise, well, readers debate and then decide for themselves. In the end, dare we say, the fool triumphed, at least with the publication of the book. The debate is settled and overcome quickly, then other beats were allowed to stretch out. In my memoir, Walkabout Undone, a love story set in Australia and filled with dualling words, I’d subconsciously assembled the beats out of order. The rest I leave up to the Save The Cat Beat Sheet. It’s a logline of sorts, for how one writes a story. The card had one simple equation: “Action equals character.” I’d heard this years prior to reading Friedkin’s book, and kept going back to it. Scott Fitzgerald, as quoted in William Friedkin’s memoir, The Friedkin Connection, who taped a three-by-five card above his typewriter. Scott Von Doviak: Charlesgate Confidential Pilar Alessandra: The Coffee Break Screenwriter Kathie Fong-Yoneda: Still rockin' with Rocaberti et al. Judith Weston: The 25th Anniversary EditionĬlaire Elizabeth Terry: Rocaberti Rockin' Julie Salamon: The Devil's Candy Revisited Margaret Kerrison: Immersive StorytellingĬhristopher Riley: The Hollywood Standard
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