Screen Plays Are Like Poems

On the primary structure level, characters are keeping secrets. And then on the secondary structure level, the writers are kept secrets. So as we continue through the pilot, marty gets hit with another secret. In this way, screen plays are like poems. A in poems, form is function. The form that the poem takes relates to the function of what the poem is supposed to do. But in screen writing, form, function, the form that the screen play takes relates to what you are bematically trying to build.