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  2. Frank Daniel - Wikipedia

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    František "Frank" Daniel (April 14, 1926 – February 29, 1996) was a Czech-American screenwriter, film director and teacher. He is known for developing the sequence paradigm of screenwriting, in which a classically constructed movie can be broken down into three acts, and a total of eight specific sequences. [1]

  3. Diane Thomas - Wikipedia

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    Diane Renee Thomas (January 7, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was an American screenwriter who wrote the 1984 film Romancing the Stone, her only produced screenplay credit.She was also originally hired to write the third Indiana Jones film, completing a first draft set in a haunted house before George Lucas and Steven Spielberg decided on a different approach.

  4. Filmmaking technique of Akira Kurosawa - Wikipedia

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    [72] "History has given way to a perception of life as a wheel of endless suffering, ever turning, ever repeating", which is compared in many instances in the screenplay with hell. [73] "Kurosawa has found hell to be both the inevitable outcome of human behavior and the appropriate visualization of his own bitterness and disappointment." [74]

  5. Syd Field - Wikipedia

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    Syd Field was born on December 19, 1935, in Hollywood, California. [3] His uncle, Sol Halprin, was the head of the camera department at 20th Century Fox, and his neighbor was a talent agent who got him minor screen time in Gone with the Wind which was cut from the final film. [3]

  6. John Truby - Wikipedia

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    John Truby (born 1952) is an American screenwriter, director, screenwriting teacher and author. [1] He has served as a consultant on over 1,000 film scripts over the past three decades, and is also known for the screenwriting software program Blockbuster (originally "Storyline Pro").

  7. The Triangle of Knowledge - Wikipedia

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    Often, the audience and a specific character are aware of all the information in a scene, but the protagonist is left in the dark. [3] When the protagonist is kept in the dark, the audience is immediately invested. [4] This explains why people talk to the screen to warn the Protagonist of impending danger even though the character cannot hear ...

  8. Subplot - Wikipedia

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    Subplots are distinguished from the main plot by taking up less of the action, having fewer significant events occur, with less impact on the "world" of the work, and occurring to less important characters. In screenwriting, a subplot is referred to as a "B story" while the main plot point can be referred to as the "A story".

  9. Deuteragonist - Wikipedia

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    In literature, the deuteragonist (/ ˌ dj uː t ə ˈ r æ ɡ ə n ɪ s t / DEW-tə-RAG-ə-nist; from Ancient Greek δευτεραγωνιστής (deuteragōnistḗs) 'second actor') or secondary main character [1] is the second most important character of a narrative, after the protagonist and before the tritagonist. [2]