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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 you get what’s in the bank account being the first kind of plot question that’s raised, and then the next question is will he escape because the police and the army are after him."

— 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