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The Bourne Identity (2002)

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DZ-43: Driving Sequences - Character and Plot Intensity

What gives your sequences their intensity?

AI✦Lands on how Bourne’s deliberate surrender of agency--choosing to let the professor hunt him--shifts the plot question and fundamentally changes what keeps an audience watching.✦

⏱ 3h 16m

8 JUL 2017

Structure · Character · Scenes

Listen to understand how dramatic questions shape audience engagement and pacing through sequences.

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Chas and Stu are joined for the fourth time by the inestimable Stephen Cleary - this time to take a deep dive into sequences. A real deep dive. A 3+ hour deep dive… →

Films: The Bourne Identity (2002) , Naked (1993) , The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) , There Will Be Blood (2007) , Fargo (1996) , Children of Men (2006) , Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

Structure: Sequences , Dramatic Questions , Character Questions , Plot Questions

Character: Character Agency

Scenes: Scene Structure

"In The Bourne Identity, Bourne deliberately relinquishes agency. The plot question is, will Clive Owen, the professor, get Bourne? It’s not, will Bourne do whatever."

— chas | DZ-43: Driving Sequences - Character and Plot Intensity

DZ-16: Masters of Time and Whitespace

Does manipulating time on the page make your script feel more cinematic?

Chas and Stu are joined by Khrob Edmonds - an award-winning filmmaker - to discuss manipulation of time… →

⏱ 1h 49m

16 DEC 2014

Words · Genre · Process

Listen if you want your screenplay to feel cinematic before a director ever reads it.

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Chas and Stu are joined by Khrob Edmonds - an award-winning filmmaker - to discuss manipulation of time… →

Films: Pulp Fiction (1994) , Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) , The Bourne Identity (2002) , The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) , The Untouchables (1987) , The Woman in Black (2012) , Up (2009) , Whiplash (2014)

Words: Whitespace , Formatting

Genre: Visual Language

Process: Craft Tools

Shot Zero Deep Dives

Staging the violence in TOTAL RECALL 1990 vs 2012 by Shot Zero

How can staging a scene differently completely change how we feel about a character?

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DZ-101

Oners - Creating Immediacy & Anchoring Action on the Page

⏱ 1h 23m

JUL 2023