Aristotle and Three Act Structure
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8 min readJul 1, 2019
“A whole [story] is what has a beginning and middle and end.”
A screenplay is a unique literary form. It both tells a story and serves as a blueprint to make a movie. As such, understanding structure is a critical component to the screenwriting craft.
One would think given its importance to screenwriting there would be some unanimity of opinion about what that structure looks…