Ask yourself these questions, the “Is It Broken?” Test: Does my hero lead the action? Is he proactive at every stage of the game and fired up by a desire or a goal? Do my characters “talk the plot”? Am I saying things a novelist would say through my characters instead of letting it be seen in the action of my screenplay? Is the bad guy bad enough? Does he offer my hero the right kind of challenge? Do they both belong in this movie? Does my plot move faster and grow more intense after the midpoint? Is more revealed about the hero and the bad guy as we come in to the Act Three finale? Is my
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