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There Will Be Blood (2007)

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DZ-43: Driving Sequences - Character and Plot Intensity

What gives your sequences their intensity?

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… →

⏱ 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

"There Will Be Blood opens with definitely micro plot questions but because there’s very little dialogue, you’re very intensely put in the shoes of the character because you’re going, what would it take to be him?"

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

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DZ-21

Scene Transitions and the Hook

⏱ 1h 40m

MAY 2015