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Unlock Your Story And Pitch Your Screenplay In One Simple Sentence - Naomi Beaty

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Diehard Is - The Story Goal and the Stakes

The stakes and the goal are put in play basically in the setup of your story right so he shows up on page one wanting to fix his marriage. The way he's going about it is by being macho and uncompromising over the course of act one terrorists show up. He forms the story goal of needing to save those hostages from the terrorists including his wife. By the end of the movie we see how he has prioritized those four things.

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