Screenplays Are Stories, Not Formulas
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3 min readMay 7, 2022
“If you go in with formula, you come out with formula.”
The late great William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Marathon Man, The Princess Bride, Misery) famously wrote, “Screenplays are structure.” That is true in a tangible sense because at some point, a script becomes a blueprint for the production of a movie. In a very real way, everything hangs on the structure of the narrative —…
