Inciting Incident Archetype(s):The Quest for the MacGuffin. A MacGuffin is an object, place, or (sometimes) person of great importance to the characters of the story, and the thing that drives the plot. For example, the ring inLord of the Rings, the horcruxes in Harry Potter, or the a...
Kurosawa didn't look only to the traditions or style of his own nation, Throne of Blood played on his interest in all things Shakespearean, especially Macbeth, not even trying to hide that the movie was a reinterpretation of the play. Ironically, he didn't hold his masterpiece Rashomon in...
Over dinner, he talks of his role as the Ten Rings leader being "appropriated" in the west. Wenwu mocks that Killian used the name of a chicken dish as the moniker for his terrorist, so it doesn't seem as though he'd have held Trevor in high regard for going along with it. Someh...
“i was in touch with stephen sondheim at every stage of this, cause so much of tick, tick…boom! is a love letter to sondheim, the way this movie is my love letter to jonathan larson—with links in a chain in that regard,” says director l...
“Personal” is good; yet taken to extremes (as Ware does) it becomes navel-gazing; allows one’s constricted, dysfunctionally-distorted view of reality to become the lens through which the world is viewed, thus negatively impacting the work. ...
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decided on one last effort to expel the invading Norse from Scotland. After surrendering to King Svein Knutson and taking refuge in Perth, Macbeth sent provisions to his conquerors. “A great quantity of bread was therefore sent, together with wine and ale into which had been infused ...
“i was in touch with stephen sondheim at every stage of this, cause so much of tick, tick…boom! is a love letter to sondheim, the way this movie is my love letter to jonathan larson—with links in a chain in that regard,” says director lin-manuel miranda on this week’s little...