The Three Act Structure

Most characters in any fiction have something that they want, or, saliently, something they think they want. That's what you can usually tell when an actor says to a director, what's my ation? What they're saying is like, i'm not just here because i'm bored. If we're showing this scene on camera, there must be somethingii want to get out of this, or there's something i definitely do not want to have happen. One reason superman has historically been such a tough character is that he is very, very overpowered from time to time. You can spend a lot of fiction before somebody realizes their ladders against the wrong wall and then ther's