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I'm enjoying this discussion as it's forcing me to figure out what the definition of an act actually is. First, we can easily dismiss the assertion that acts are the beginning, middle, and end because this precludes any structure that uses more or less acts than three. We do not say that a one...

I disagree entirely. If you take the definition of act to be any event comprising the division of the structure of a story then yes, but I don't. As I see it that's what the word event or "part" is for. A joke often has 3 parts (not always), but I don't see the second act of Hamlet as being...

The reason you're having so many problems with this story is because nothing happens. First of all, there's no such thing as 3 minute short film in 3 Acts. You have to have scenes and sequences before you have acts. An act climax requires many scenes (typically) to build it up. An object falling...