Script Writing Essay:
In this Essay I want to outline the structure of two films, Back to the future and Good Will Hunting, and clearly outline the structure and the plots, and how the key moments arise within the plot, taking both films I will show from the start of the film, exposition Incitement, and the trigger points, midpoint and climax and resolution, I will analyse the main characters and their back storey.
Finally I will discuss the main characters situations, and their conflicts from my opinion and if the script meets audience expectations and what the audience gained through the process.
In Back to the Future and Good Will Hunting, the plot structure is typical of a 3 Act structure, this first was seen in writings from Aristotle in his poetics, and also seen in Shakespeare, your typical Beginning + Middle + End.
90 minutes Act one (22.5 min in)
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Marty meets Doc at Twin Pines Mall parking lot, to help him with an experiment with his time machine which is a modified car, a DeLorean. The test subject is Einstein the Doc’s pet dog he appears to vanish into flames when the car remotely reaches 88mph, Doc is shouting, 88mph and seemingly not worried about Einstein, Marty can only look on in shock and dismay thinking that Doc accidently killed Einstein in one of his crazy experiments. After Einstein reappears seemingly unscathed from the future Marty realises that Doc has just invented time travel. (00:22:42)
2. Trigger Points (End of Act One)
Doc is seen making preparations to travel into the future, when Libyan terrorists arrive on the scene set on killing the Doc, and to get back the plutonium which they thought he was making a bomb for them. Doc is shot in front of Marty and he is forced to jump in the DeLorean to make his escape. As Marty is being chased, Marty floors the accelerator, to 88 MPH, and disappears in cloud of fire and smoke in front of the terrorists and he is propelled back to 1955.
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