During Act 2 (the Confrontation Phase), “the character faces a series of obstacles” (Keane 79). In other words, you start with a main character whose entire world is about to be shattered, who is going to be more severely tested than ever before, and whose way of looking at life is going to be changed forever” (Keane 72). During the Setup phase in Act 1, the story begins with establishment of the characters, clarification of the “movie’s premise, location, and genre. Then, the Story Climax which is “the biggest scene in the movie, where good confronts evil and where the final battle is waged” (Keane 85) occurstoward the end of Act 3.Īct 1 is characterized by Setup, Act 2 by the Confrontation, and Act 3 by the Resolution. Plot Point 2 occurs after the midpoint of Act 2. Usually, the Inciting Incident which is followed by Plot Point 1 occurs in Act 1. For a typical 120-page screenplay, Act 1 is 30 pages long (or 30 minutes), Act 2 is 60 pages (60 minutes), and Act 3 is 30 pages (30 minutes). Basically, Act 1 is the beginning of the story, Act 2 is the middle, and Act 3 is the end of the story. The third act wraps up the story and brings the audience’s involvement to a satisfactory end” (Howard 24-25). The second act keeps it involved and heightens its emotional commitment to the story. “The first act gets the audience involved with the characters and the story. The three-act structure is very easy for the viewing audience to comprehend and understand. It is most widely used in films produced in America. The Hollywoodthree-act structure is the most common screenwriting approach used today. After this, I will provide an analysis of each film using story design terminology relative to the overall structure of each screenplay. Then, I will define the key terms that comprise a story’s design.

I will accomplish this by first providing a brief description of the Hollywood three-act structure and how it differs from the alternative style of screenwriting. The purpose of this articleis to provide a screenplay analysis of “The Godfather” and “Babette’s Feast” in terms of their story structure. This article provides a screenplay analysis of the American film “The Godfather” and the Danish Film “Babette’s Feast.” While the Hollywood three-act structure is common to American cinema, alternative screenplay structure is most widely used in production of European films. Other approaches that do not comply with the traditional Hollywood screenplay design are known as the alternative style of screenwriting. The most commonly used storytelling approach in film is referred to as the Hollywood three-act structure.

Telling stories through film can be accomplished in different ways.

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