Unlock the Secret Truth: Why Screenplays Defy Every Formula You Thought You Knew
“If you go in with formula, you come out with formula.”
The late great William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Marathon Man, The Princess Bride, Misery) famously wrote, “Screenplays are structure.” That is true in a tangible sense because at some point, a script becomes a blueprint for the production of a movie. And in a very real way, everything hangs on the structure of the narrative — how one scene flows to the next, how the beginning is shaped, how the middle is crafted, how the ending plays out, even the designations of scenes — Exterior, Interior, Day, Night — shape the nature of a film coming to life.
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