this blog by filmmaker james francis flynn features reviews of films from the writer's guild of america's 101 greatest screenplays list, plus other films and detritus here and there.
24 May 2009
Battle at Kruger
I saw this for the first time last night and was enthralled. Then I noticed it had been viewed over 40 million times, and I realized that the reason this video was so popular and well-known is because it is the absolute essence of the 3-act dramatic structure, just played out with animals in the wild instead of actors or characters on the page.
To wit: everything you need to know about structuring a narrative is in this eight minute wildlife video.
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