From: DrumzNow-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 22:03:21 EDT
Subject: Re: The 3 act paradigm



In a message dated 10/9/98 1:51:13 AM, Claudia-AT-blue-diamond.cnchost.com
writes:

<<Anyway, I don't think that a play in 4 or 5 literal acts would not
necessarily fit into the 3-act story structure.>>

	All of Shakespeare's works, at least, can easily be viewed within the 3-act
paradigm, as far as I've read.  I wish I could recall, but there was a more
technical reason for dividing the pieces up five ways in Shakespeare's day.
	One common reason this may be maintained in movies of today, is the
3-sentence "Log-Line" device used by the Hollywood system to categorize and
file the millions of scripts and stories it recieves each year.  No one in
Hollywood likes to a.) read, or b.) break the standard methods, so one brief
sentence per act, in this Log Line structure persists....

-A.H.


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