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The purpose of the villain and mentor is to change the hero. The mentor offers positive lessons to help...

Every story has a plot. The plot basically defines what happens to a character such as the hero. However,...

What really creates added tension and suspense isn’t more violence, sex, or special effects, but relationship triangles. This occurs...

Pick out every important scene in a good movie and there’s always an initial anticipation by one of the...

In most stories, the main character is the hero who changes. However, in rare cases, the main character is...

In every good movie, the hero changes emotionally. That means the hero starts out in a dead end life...

The hero must battle a villain. Sometimes that villain can be a force of nature but in most cases,...

The best stories show the hero’s emotional change from a dead end life to a happier, more promising life...

The way stories sometimes run out of steam is when nothing new happens once a problem appears. For example,...

Every movie is about a big story and the main story. The big story is what you expect. In...

Watch a pornographic movie and you’ll see that the whole emphasis is on the physical act of sex, shot...