Story Structure Analyzation: "Miss Congeniality"

Movies are a great resource for analyzing story structure. Books are good as well, but it's often easier to see structure in a two-hour movie as opposed to a book which takes several hours to read.



Miss Congeniality, a 2000 movie starring Sandra Bullock, is the movie I've chosen to analyze.



In "How To Build A Story - Part 1" we discussed some aspects of characterization that are critical to story structure. Let's begin there.

Grace Hart's Wound/Scar ~ The movie begins by showing Grace as...