eli5: What are “acts” in a movie/film and how are people able to figure out where they start/end? Are there always three acts? More? Less? Please explain.
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Jill Chamberlain teaches something called The Nutshell Technique. Film Courage interviewed her and put the whole hour plus video on yt, although you could just watch parts of it as they added these as well. Her book is incredible and breaks down movies on one form, I.e. The Setup Want / with the end of the first act culminating in the Point of No Return +The Catch, etc. It’s helped me a lot in writing my novel although her process is really geared towards films. She even talks in her book about films like Pulp Fiction containing all of the points covered on her Nutshell Technique form but in a different order.
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