3 Mistakes Screenwriters Make In Act 1 That Ruin A Screenplay - Michael Hauge

'Thank you Michael'... you mean if I keep it simple, so I know where the characters and I are going, we'll get there... I shouldn't wait for the audience to tell me where we're going?
Brian Couch

Coppola's "Megalopolis" has entered the chat...😑

Just my opinion: A good script is very much like catching a fish. The only certainty that you'll catch a fish is if you just go fishing. The only certainty that you'll write a good script is just by writing a script.

Asking what's a good script is like asking what's the best way to build muscles. We all know there's more than one way to build muscles.

This wrong idea of no.1 is a reason why films today are so shit. What he is describing is NOT story, what he is describing is the general plot. Most Hollywood films today have almost no story.

some of my favorites break these rules

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I disagree that you have to show the normal life of the character right away or even. Shawshank Redemption we never see the normal life of Andy Dufresne or in the case of Richard Kimble, they are just straight out thrown into the conflict…

Honestly Michael Hauge. 👍

What i find is, these interviews work best if I just take in ONE thing at the time, go to my script and implement that one thing. if i listen more, i get nothing done.

Really like the throughline point

I didnt understand what Oppenheimer wants to accomplish😂

Think "Succession" and how it lost its way.

there are no rules to follow, because it is art ...it is just how someone is genius to break them down...there are plenty of examples of such sorts...however, nowadays ...with the eager to win more audience with successful work...there are stretching stories that fails the work in the end .

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Great chanel

That six stage plots structure makes WAAAAAY more sense than anything I've seen for the basic 3-act. It's so clear and doesn't mince around.

Good writing is good writing, bad writing is bad writing. If it works it works if it doesn't then oh well back to the drawing board.

Empathy? At the beginning
Lots of the best movies don’t empathize with the character at the start or at all. Taxi driver, one flew over the coo coos next, American history x, there will be blood

He makes some other interesting points. Just curious to see what he’s written. I can’t find anything on his IMDb

Best one yet. Thank you. So clear and helps me so much. Yes!

Learned a lot from Michael. Looked up his 3 act formula. It's true how the character really turns into a real person and drives the story. Screenplay n books are quite different

Okay, so maybe I’m a total newbie to this process, but what are they referring to when they say “stage one and stage two” and “25%”?

I understand three act structure, but this sounds like they’re referencing a specific writing process.

Thank you

She’s a brilliant interviewer. Love hearing her thoughts and ideas along the way. Storytelling interview.

Lets see...
1.Disney Star Wars
2.Disney Star Wars
3.Disney Star Wars

For once I feel like I achieved what one of these pros said!

His first comment on a thicket - that has been me! Probably a core issue for writer's block.

I'm confused. He says writers have to show main character's daily life before something happens even briefly. Yet in Rambo the protagonist visits straight to a new place; the place he doesn't spend his daily life.

Personally I've never liked films that start with a bang. I love the slow build up, showing our protagonist at work rest or play- their equilibrium, THEN they have the rug pulled out under their feet for greater contrast. Let the games vegin

What if a writer is attempting to create a story where nothing much happens, where people don't change, they don't have any epiphanies? They struggle and are frustrated and nothing is resolved. More like a reflection of the real world..

Thre act story explained in old Hollywood terms (MGM).
Act 1. Boy meets girl
Act 2. Boy loses girl
Act 3. Boy sing song and gets girl back.
What we see is something new, followed by a setback or something lost and finally action taken to overcome setback or win back what was lost.

I have a question I wish you really give it to john truby ♥️, William Martel ,dr ken ,peter russel, Michael hauge
I have a plan and I would like to have comments on it
1-write around 20 short story because great stories have smaller ones in each scene
2- writing around 3 films to improve my writing
3 -writing my dream story (my big project)
Is that a good way to start?
Thanks 💙🧡

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What if the logline will reveal the important twist without which it is a simple story. Its difficult to layout a logline. Kindly advise

Thank you!

Is it okay to have 40pages act 1 in a 120 page script. 40-60-20
I am writing a romantic drama and it's taking me time to establish the characters before they meet. Is this okay? Someone please help.

Thank you, God bless,

This guy sees my mind. He’s probably seen it so many times before in others.

Thanks a lot, Sir.

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Fun talk, though his “summary” of Inception was a little too scant. Yes, it’s about a group of people who want to infiltrate someone’s dreams to change their mind, but Cobb’s struggle with his wife and getting back home to his children also drives the story.

If you're Chuck Norris, you have a page and a half of day to day life, and then introduce armed enemies that lasts the rest of the hour, with no goal, desire, motivation, or inner battle coming within a ten mile radius.

I have a clue about the beginning and ending actually a good insight but it is hard for me to write the middle events.
Any advice 🧡

What if the characters goal changes throughout the story?

Inception is about a man who cannot physically be with his children, so he finds a way to trick himself into believing he has been reunited with them. The fact that so many people think it's about the dream heist is what makes Inception such a great movie. The audience is being 'incepted'.

Inception?? Complex??? I keep hearing this but, having seen the movie, I cannot grasp how anyone with a pulse would call it 'complex'. Matryoshka dolls. The movie is simply Russian nesting dolls. That's all.