David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson on five quick principles crucial to Hollywood-storytelling. As part of an analysis of the action picture Mission Impossible III:
1. Goal orientation.
2. Double plotline
3. Discrete part-structure
4. Planting causes for future effects.
5. Deadlines.
Gotta see the movie and check the boxes!
Bordwell’s Narration In The Fiction Film really made an impact when I read it twelve years ago. Film Art was boring, though.
