Three Different Ways of Understanding Story Structure Most story models describe what stories look like once they are written. Intuitive Screenwriting asks a different question: what underlying archetypal relationship generates the story in the first place? 1. Why Writers Search for Story Models Stories are complex systems, and most writers approach them with some kind of map. Over the past decades, influential models such as the Hero’s Journey and Save the Cat have become widely used because...

Eyes Wide Shut (1999), directed by Stanley Kubrick. FIRST ACT – BIRTH 1. WARRIOR (exposition of a wound, ego): Battlefield Bill and...

“You have to believe in the illusion, or you’ll lose your mind.” All We Imagine as Light In the sea of Western feminist films that often...