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"Die Hard in a..." thrillers, "Sad Man movies", Boss Level, Dan in Real Life, Die Hard, Everything Must Go, Good Will Hunting, Ground Hog's Day, Happy Death Day, Man Weepie, North by Northwest, On-the-Run thrillers, Paradigm, Source Code, The 39 Steps, The Fugitive, The Judge, The Upside, The Weatherman - November 17, 2021

Paradigm

In previous articles we talked about Genre and Sub-Genre. Now let’s get a little more specific and discuss Paradigm. Like genre, a project’s paradigm is an effort to figure out the “what this is” of the story/movie. However, paradigm touches on whether or not a project fits with a common type of set-ups within a genre. Note that the paradigm can refer to the project’s creative side, the commercial side, or both. For example, thrillers are a genre. But among thrillers, there are movies that might be called “On-the-Run” thrillers. That is, a thriller in which our protagonist is hunted...

The Unorthodox Great Screenplay Checklist

Studying screenplays is a worthy practice, but can sometimes lead to cookie-cutter scripts, without the spark of originality that defines truly great films - with that in mind, here’s the ScriptArsenal “Unorthodox Great Screenplay Checklist”. Does your screenplay fit the bill? To compile this list, ScriptArsenal found commonalities in eight of the greatest screenplays of all time (all won Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars), FARGO, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, JUNO, WITNESS, GOOD WILL HUNTING, SPOTLIGHT, THE USUAL SUSPECTS, and THE CRYING GAME. The protagonist is dead wrong about the most important thing in their own lives. In GOOD WILL HUNTING,...

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