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The script utilizes both the death of Jo's father from a tornado, and the estrangement of Jo and Bill as emotional backdrops to their scientific pursuit of tornadoes.
(hide)A remarkably good biography and 'black humor' approach to an addict who manages to come through the experience alive. Excellent example of how to use additional characters to magnify the personality and challenges of the protagonist.
(hide)This is the Sequence-Scene structure of the 1998 restored version derived from Welles's 1958 memo.
An excellent example of pursuit where the protagonist (Bond) and antagonist (Carver) cross paths from Act II onwards. The antagonist also has a surrogate fighter (Stamper) for Bond to continuously battle.
(hide)Thunderball is an ideal screenplay to follow a main character conducting an investigation.
An excellent script of escalating tension and emotion during personal deterioration and self-destructive behavior.
Socially ostracized Finbar moves to a rural train station. There he meets insistent friend Joe and saddened Olivia. A perfect model screenplay of beautiful relationships.
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A remarkable screenplay where Sequences are delineated by changes in room location and historical time period.
This Bond story follows a series of clues of double cross defections and false loyalties to establish the villain's real goals.
The Sequence structure tells the story of James' brave and reckless journey through a series of bomb disposal incidents, attacks and deaths in Iraq.
(hide)Two superpowers are almost fooled into annihilating each other by a neo-Nazi industrialist. Jack Ryan must prove the industrialists involvement.
(hide)How to use memory loss and mistaken identity to create a hopeless situation.
Excellent Sequence Stucture following multiple charaters and storylines.
A safe straightforward screenplay of the exploration of an unknown threat.
High accolades for this beautiful Coming-of-Age screenplay. An ideal model.
Excellent use of flashback to explain character's interpersonal relationships and motivations.
A systematic progression through formulaic Sequences that follow clues to the villain, motive and means to execute the plan Bond will thwart.
(hide)A systematic progression through formulaic Sequences that follow clues to the villain, motive and means to execute the plan Bond will thwart.
(hide)Excellent structure for an innocent man being framed and then pursued whilst having to reveal the real perpetrators.
A good example of how to integrate independent story-lines of several characters.
A prototype for a multiple Flashback format screenplay where all is not what it seems and characters are not who they say they are.
Masterful example of a heist with thieves stealing the loot from each other. How do you find it and steal it back?
See how close the 19-Sequence Model correlates with Shakespear's Act - Scene structure. Maybe the model was first developed by Shakespeare...?
(hide)Excellent conflict structure with three separate storylines that merge in the final climax of villains and heroes.
'Red Eye' is an excellent to model how to create tension and action in a confined space (Act II).
A, 'What if' scenario around a single girl in the fashion industry in Manhattan suddenly becoming responsible for her deceased sister's three young children - and finding selflessness and love as a result.
(hide)A systematic progression through formulaic Sequences that follow clues to the villain, motive and means to execute the plan Bond will thwart.
(hide)Journal of Screenwriting, Volume 3, Issue 2, pages 215-232 (2012): 'Development of a fundamental '19-Sequence Model- of screenplay and narrative film structure'.
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