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#13 - Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Importance of Goals in a Drama

I think these movies, there's like a lesson to be learned of how effective it is when you understand what the characters are trying to achieve very clearly and then you follow along as we have the rises and falls of achieving that thing. You know, you can still translate that to a drama or a comedy in very similar ways. So psychology is an important component. Like some people forget the psychology. Absolutely. But from a behavioral standpoint, all behavior is, is trying to achieve a goal by doing something. Doing things. That's action. That's his behavior. Yeah. It's a screenwriting is psychology turned into behavior. I mean, that's what that's part of it.

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