tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783790224005995258.post4622835937151828954..comments2023-10-31T03:18:20.530-07:00Comments on Scott Norton Taylor: Screenwriting # 2 – The Story is King.Scott Norton Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15771527488148650508noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783790224005995258.post-24059132166013814272015-11-14T23:22:13.655-08:002015-11-14T23:22:13.655-08:00Hi,
Great read but it was a really long post and ...Hi,<br /><br />Great read but it was a really long post and you lost me around the 60% part. However I agree with you that forcing stories into a 3-act structure is ridiculous. I think it's a problem with the western thought process that tries to deconstruct problems & situations into manageable patterns and reconstruct them, but doesn't identify the root (atomic) level causes of the eventual problems & situations. <br /><br />For example the periodic table - it was developed by a Russian and once it was developed it was globally recognised to be a "truth chart/table" that by it's consistent rules and logic predicted elements that hadn't even been discovered yet. This is what I refer to as a Truth Table that "holistically" predicts and enables the deconstruction of major derivations without constraining what's possible. <br /><br />The problem with 3-act is that it has been derived by deconstructing existing stories. However that means whatever that's created by 3-act structure will only be the same. Same container - different liquids.<br /><br />We need to go deeper. What makes a story? What makes a good story? What makes a bad story? What is a good and bad story?<br /><br />We need to discover the natual laws of stories versus trying to impose our human rules on them. <br /><br />Only then we will have a more holistic understanding and cultural appreciation of a really good story.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11945774219718567975noreply@blogger.com