
49 | Michael Arndt's Act 1 Masterclass
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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What's the Midpoint of Finding Nemo?
There's a natural organic relationship between the strength of your first act rank and the strength ofyour midpoint. For example, in finding Nemo, finding Nemo is such a strong first act rate. That's going to be enough juice to power you all the way through the second act. You don't need a big turn in your story because your first act rate is so strong. The midpoint I can't even think of thought my head. What the midpoint of Finding Nemo is just because that first act rates is so great. On Toy Story 3, we were dealing with a week first act rate, which is what he's leaving his friends leaving Sunnyside.
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