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Excellent Rescue-Escape screenplay template. A scientist cannot persuade a town's inhabitants there is a real danger and they should leave. When the volcano erupts, the scientist must rescue the woman he loves and her children.
(hide)Dead Poets Society is a great model for multiple story lines and the development of friendships.
Charles chooses a femme fatale with whom to have an affair. Ideal set-up of the double cross. Sequences create empathy for Charles (despite infidelity and loss of his daughters transplant money) through blackmail and becoming a murder suspect.
(hide)Excellent story structure for a screenplay about the development of respect and friendship. The Prologue sets up the flash back narrative and book-ended tragic ending.
(hide)A comedy screenplay with a strong social undertone of 'tolerance' to people who are different.
Use the Screenplay Summary to see how Double Indemnity establishes the classic femme fatale-betrayal structure of a film noir. It is a lesson on the use of a voice-over narrative and making the flashback structure fit into the story conclusion.
(hide)The prototype James Bond screenplay and a classic structure for a mystery investigation. The audience knows things before Bond as a way to create a sense of impending danger for him.
(hide)A intriguing pursuit-mystery plot where two people are forced to comply with instructions and evade capture.
Enemy of the State has an excellent a pursuit-counter attack profile. Includes a free PDF download of the draft screenplay dated 2/10/97.
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Entrapment an excellent example of how to use foreshadowing and plot reversal techniques.
Brilliantly conceived and beautifully composed story structure.
The action in Flightplan is restricted to a single location, but the plot structure of a kidnap-manipulation-rescue plot is all there.
Fine example of a simple love story placed on a substrate of multiple character comedy vignettes.