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The Big Question

Every good movie should start off with a big question that grabs our attention from the start and carries through until the end. If you...
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What Every Scene Needs

The latest bad movie in theaters right now is the Chinese film “Grandmaster,” which tells the story of Ip Man, the legendary martial artist who...
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Character Writer Software

There’s a new program called “Character Writer” designed to help you create more fully dimensional characters. Just remember that buying software is still no substitute...
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How to Make a Dull Movie

Bruce Lee’s martial arts teacher was a man known as Ip Man. One of the latest movies to tell Ip Man’s story is “Grandmaster,” a...
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Using Story Templates

When you first start creating your story, you may try to create an original story, but there are no original stories. Instead, look at existing...
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Slowly Reveal a Mystery

One of the best ways to build suspense and anticipation is to create a mystery, and one of the best ways to create a mystery...
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The Source of All Problems

At the simplest, most melodramatic level, a hero faces problems that come solely from an outside source such as a villain intent on destroying the...
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Old vs. New Movies

Watch an old movie like “Citizen Kane” or “It’s a Wonderful Life” and the story structure still feels modern and fresh. Then watch some more...
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‘The Gadgets of James Bond

Watch most James Bond movies and Q, the gadget making genius of the British Secret Service, always comes up with some odd device that ultimately...
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The Ambiguous Ending

Hollywood loves definite endings where good clearly triumphs over evil, or in rare cases such as tragedies, where the hero clearly loses. What Hollywood often...
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