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A tense superbly constructed screenplay with each Scene targeting a specific plot point.
The Act III courtroom confrontation is preceded by two acts that demonstrate why Lieut. Maryk led the mutiny.
The chase and pursuit structure begins again after Marie is murdered and Bourne is set-up.
The Screenplay Summary captures the 'Pursued-Becomes-the-Pursuer' structure - with the added dimensions that the protagonist has amnesia and must solve the mystery of why he is being targeted.
(hide)The Bank Job is based on real events and models a complex storyline with multiple characters. Note how each Scene sets-up or foreshadows a specific plot point.
(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)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)A comedy screenplay with a strong social undertone of 'tolerance' to people who are different.
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)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)Dead Poets Society is a great model for multiple story lines and the development of friendships.
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)Crash features several inter-related and independent stories that collide in this Well-structures screenplay that highlights racism.
The Screenplay Summary sets out this classic storyline: Small-town girl (Violet) goes to the big city (Manhattan) and overcome internal conflicts (stage-fright and father's estrangement) to find love, success and fame (as a singer-song writer).
(hide)The Conversation is an ideal example of an action film magnified in impact by the deep character development of the main character, Harry Caul.
(hide)A well-structured Flashback-Present framework of a murder investigation and love story.
Collateral is a well constructed and paced kidnapping-Escape-Rescue thriller.
A truly thrilling screenplay to visualize Sequence and Scene structure. Remarkable flashback organization.
Robert Towne's beautifully balanced plot matched with strategic foreshadowing of clues.
Chain Reaction has the classic Sequence structure of a Chased and Solve a Mystery format.
Cellular is a relentless pursuit-chase--rescue script linked to a cell phone and kidnapping.
Cast Away demonstrates a screenplay construction through a series of distinct Sequences delineated by changes in location and purpose in the story narrative.
(hide)A systematic progression through formulaic Sequences that follow clues to the villain, motive and means to execute the plan Bond will thwart.
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