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Overview - Dissertation

This book breaks down the principles of screenwriting, story structure and character motivation. By establishing rules for writing it lays out a how to of writing.

The motivations of your characters and the desire of your audience drive a script. For every hero there is an antagonist. With the proper Ying and Yang relationship your story drives itself forward.

The relvence on my dissertation is the motivations of the hero character and also the desires of the audience. In true storys especially abotu crimes often times the motivation for the hero is the persuit of justice. How do we identify with the victim and what we consider justice forms true story adaptations. However contrary to reality.

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