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Gravity (2013)

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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?

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… →

⏱ 1h 33m

17 MAR 2014

Structure · Genre · Character

Listen if you need to know which guru frameworks actually deliver in Act Three.

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Films: Gravity (2013) , Frozen (2013)

Structure: Plotting , Act Three , Sequences , Stakes , Act One , Dual Protoganist

Genre: Genre Conventions

Character: Character Agency

"The mirror image is her on land, back on Earth, standing up and being surrounded by sound. And that’s something that they’ve done a very good job of in the film. It’s not as written as much on the script, but the sound plays a particularly important role in creating that contrast."

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

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DZ-15

World Building Rules, Okay?

⏱ 2h 0m

NOV 2014