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“double reversal.”
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First,
stereo and mono sound.
Second,
To create a double reversal, take these steps.
both the hero and the main opponent a weakness and a need
During or just after the battle,
Your moral vision is the best of what both characters learn.
it is not common.
love stories,
Casablanca;
Creating Your Hero, Step 3: Desire
Sometimes a writer will say something like
When he leaves home for the first time?
When he gets married?
When he gets d...
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the end of the story.
By extending the hero’s desire line almost to the end, you make your story a single unit and ensure that it has tremendous narrative drive.
figure out your opponent.
The main character is only as good as the person he fights.
5. Give him certain similarities to the hero.
Keep him in the same place as the hero.
Four-Corner Opposition
In parentheses is the archetype each embodies,
Look for the positive and negative versions of the same value.
make each character as different as possible from the other three.
Extend the four-corner pattern to every level of the story.
CREATING YOUR CHARACTERS—WRITING EXERCISE 3
“If you want to send a message, try Western Union.”
The complex argument of action that you will eventually weave through the story begins, as always, with the seed, which is the designing principle.
giving the hero a moral decision, making each character a variation on the theme, and placing the characters’ values in conflict.
The Hero’s Moral Decision
Moral argument in a story is an argument of action you make by showing your hero and opponent taking certain means to reach a goal.
beginning of the story,
middle of the story,
convergent point of story
Moral Argument: Basic Strategy
Values
the battle, self-revelation, moral decision, and a structure step we haven’t discussed yet, the thematic revelation.
Battle
values and ideas are superior.
MORAL ARGUMENT TECHNIQUE: BALANCE MORAL ARGUMENT WITH PLOT
imbalance between moral argument and plot.
“Will the hero do the right thing, and will he do it in time?”
Good Versus Bad
this lowest variation of moral argument,
good-versus-bad
The Matrix,
Field of ...
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