Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:40:42 -0400
From: hellenismos webmaster <news-AT-hellenismos.com>
Subject: Re: The 3 act paradigm


>on tv all stories have 7 acts just because of the stupid commercial clips
>in between


so what are u talking about the theory of the 3 act paradigm and the
aristotelian way of thinking


do not be naive because in a few years no film student will remember /or
want to remember anything from the  "classic theories and paradigms of film
theory" they will not remember who Godard or renoir was as the do not
remember who is brahms or pergolesi or decirico..
WAKE UP !!!!
and be creative instead ...............................


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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