I am writing the outline for my script, and I was interested in what John Truby has to say, here in the video, that in the detective genre, a detective, can choose between love and honor, at the end of the story. He talks about it at 4:30 into the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKpMtrC16v4
He talks about how in almost all detective stories, the detective chooses honor in the end, it that your story will become much more original if he/she chose love instead.
I was thinking I could to that for mine, since in my outline, the detective if faced with the same two choices so far. But how do you make him choose love and have their still be a climax? In my outline, I have structured it so that the hero's love interest pleads to him to be with her, instead of getting himself killed in going after the villains, out of honor and his beliefs.
However, if the hero chose her, instead, then there is no climax, and the villains get away. That may be more original, but audiences love when the hero has a final confrontation with the villains. If he chooses love, he will not get that confrontation, and he will just leave them alone, so how exactly does that plot turn (although much more original), work in satisfying the audience, so they don't feel let down or cheated? For example, in The Dark Knight Rises (SPOILER), Catwoman asks Batman to leave before the city is destroyed and to come with her, so they can live happily together. She says that Batman does not owe the people of Gotham anymore, and that he has already given them everything, as she sort of put it. Batman instead chooses to stay and fight to save Gotham. If the movie had ended so that Batman took off with her, and left Gotham to deal with the problem on it's own, while she and her chose love, a lot of viewers would have hated that. So how do you do it right?
He also says that you need to give the love story enough time to develop, which I agree with. But in a thriller where there is a lot of plot and other characters, and I am trying to cut down on length, how much time does the love story need, or how many minutes or scenes, would you say? He says you cannot montage love, and I see what he means. So how much time is required, or what can I do to keep it to a minimum, since I am trying to cut down, but still have it so the audience can feel it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKpMtrC16v4
He talks about how in almost all detective stories, the detective chooses honor in the end, it that your story will become much more original if he/she chose love instead.
I was thinking I could to that for mine, since in my outline, the detective if faced with the same two choices so far. But how do you make him choose love and have their still be a climax? In my outline, I have structured it so that the hero's love interest pleads to him to be with her, instead of getting himself killed in going after the villains, out of honor and his beliefs.
However, if the hero chose her, instead, then there is no climax, and the villains get away. That may be more original, but audiences love when the hero has a final confrontation with the villains. If he chooses love, he will not get that confrontation, and he will just leave them alone, so how exactly does that plot turn (although much more original), work in satisfying the audience, so they don't feel let down or cheated? For example, in The Dark Knight Rises (SPOILER), Catwoman asks Batman to leave before the city is destroyed and to come with her, so they can live happily together. She says that Batman does not owe the people of Gotham anymore, and that he has already given them everything, as she sort of put it. Batman instead chooses to stay and fight to save Gotham. If the movie had ended so that Batman took off with her, and left Gotham to deal with the problem on it's own, while she and her chose love, a lot of viewers would have hated that. So how do you do it right?
He also says that you need to give the love story enough time to develop, which I agree with. But in a thriller where there is a lot of plot and other characters, and I am trying to cut down on length, how much time does the love story need, or how many minutes or scenes, would you say? He says you cannot montage love, and I see what he means. So how much time is required, or what can I do to keep it to a minimum, since I am trying to cut down, but still have it so the audience can feel it?
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