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#5 - The Avengers (2012)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Sequence Approach to a Movie

I'm with you on a lot of it almost verbatim I think it's the moment the act break is the moment like the world will never be the same for the character again they could never go back to the way things were before. The hook creates the the hint of what this movie is gonna be about and all the events leading up to the choice at the end of act one then bring that question into focus so it's will Marty get back to the future now right? It reminded me of the sequence approach which breaks down a movie by eight sequences eight parts eight equal parts each one of them has kind of a governing question there are many movies there are many films yeah but even in

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