Index

Note: Page numbers followed by b indicate boxes.

9-11 type backstories, 170, 170b

30 Rock, 50

40-Year-Old Virgin, The, 72

300, 10–11

500 Days of Summer, 49

A

A, B, and C stories, 50

Abrams, J. J., 49

Act 1

accepting the call, 47

importance of, 29

inciting incident, 46, 47

point of no return, 47

protagonist, 34, 34b, 35, 57b

setup, 46

solving script problems, 131, 132

Act 2

Dark Point in, 48

midpoint, 48

opening up, 47

outlining and problems in, 25

protagonist in, 29

recovery, 48

Act 3

final battle, 48

wind-down, 49

Act out, soft, 90

Action

vs. dialog, 90, 90b, 91

gumming up script with lines of, 96, 96b, 97, 98

Page One, 44b

writing after dialog, 117

Action lines

in comedy, 111

stripping down, 117

in westerns, 111

Action movies, violence ...

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