Screenwriting Guru Robert McKee Demystifies Character and Structure
The No Film School Podcast
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Bigger Than an Act?
Long form television is bigger than an act, certainly, right? Bigger than a half season? Do you think writers should start laying those kinds of things out on a charge. See something like breaking bad. I'm trying to remember the numbers, but i believe there are 26 story lines. There's a central plot, 25 sub plots overa fild, five, virtually six seasons. And i broke into four movements where there's massive change. It has two. When you add up all the acts between the 26 story lines, it's over 250. The central plat alone, the heisenburg plat, had something like forty acts,. and so and so, you needn't
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