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Every episode covering Act Three.

"Dark Night of the Soul is less a formula beat and more a question every writer should be able to answer for their character. What is the lowest point? What does it take to get out of it?"

— Stu Willis  |  DZ-2: Do the Screenplay Gurus score big at the Box Office?

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Dark Night of the Soul as Character Question

"Dark Night of the Soul is less a formula beat and more a question every writer should be able to answer for their character. What is the lowest point? What does it take to get out of it?"

— Stu Willis (00:43:23) · DZ-2: Do the Screenplay Gurus score big at the Box Office?

DZ-2: Do the Screenplay Gurus score big at the Box Office?

Do the biggest original films of 2013 follow more archetypal - or formulaic - structures?
AI✦Stu argues that Vogler has real things to say about Act 3 structure, while Snyder’s ‘finale -- finish it’ turns out to be pretty thin guidance for actually generating that emotional hit in either film.✦
⏱ 1h 33m
17 MAR 2014
Listen if you need to know which guru frameworks actually deliver in Act Three.
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Part 2 of our Screenplay Gurus series takes the same lens from Part 1 — Vogler, Snyder and Hauge — and points it at the two highest-grossing original films of 2013: GRAVITY and FROZEN. No franchise, no sequel. Just the two films that audiences went to see in the biggest numbers that year, and the question of what their scripts actually look like when you run them against the guru formulas… →