Into the Woods

Volume · John Yorke · 10 passages

You write a script twice. The first time you pour out all your passion, anger, energy, and frustration. Then you go back and write it with your head.
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The climax is the point at which the protagonist and the antagonist slug it out.
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There is a problem, the protagonists go on a journey, they find the solution, they return, and the problem is solved.
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Good storytelling never gives you four, it gives you two plus two…don’t give the audience the answer; give the audience the pics and compel them to conclude the answer. Audiences have unconscious desire to work for their entertainment . They are rewarded with a. Sense of thrill and delight when they find the answers themselves.
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A viewer loves being immerse din a new, confusing and possibly dangerous world that he will never see. He likes not knowing every bit of vernacular or idiom. He likes being trusted to acquire information on his terms, to make connections, to take the journey with only his intelligence to guide him. Most smart people cannot watch most TV, because it has generally been a condescending medium, explaining everything immediately, offering no ambiguities, and using dialogue the simplifies and mitigates against the idiosyncratic ways in which people in different world actually communicate.
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When two opposites are juxtaposed correctly, an explosion occurs, and story comes alive.
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KULESHOV EFFECT: if an audience is presented with disparate images it will assemble them into a meaningful order. It’s a truth on which all film grammar is based.
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Two opposites are placed side by side; art is rendered form juxtaposition. That interpretation is art.
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The test of first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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Post midpoint the protagonist has to learn how to integrate the now dominant new self with toehold one. It’s not enough for them to assume an entirely new personality—they have to learn how to merge the good from the new tithe good from the old. Then as the journey nears its end, the two sides are brought into balance.
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