In my script, the first scene is a crime act in progress that goes wrong. A chase then ensues with villains and the main cop character. I want to make it an epic long chase that goes in different directions in the style of Bullitt or The French Connection. Now the bullitt chase was almost 10 minutes if you time it, and I want mine to be around as long.
Then in the next scene, a series of violent crimes of a similar nature are committed by the same gang after getting away. It doesn't show every crime, but they are talked about on the news, media, etc. Then the same cop is given as assignment on what to and he then goes and does it. This is different from the usual beginning of a three act structure, as most movies tend to introduce characters first before throwing this much plot at the audience.
There is the hook, but my hook lasts a few scenes, after the first. And not only that, before the audience knows exactly what crimes are happening, they have to watch a 10 minute chase in the opening before it gets to the main plot hook. There are two hooks though, one that went wrong, which leads to the chase, then the one that goes horribly right, and creates the dilemmas. After all that though, the character background and development starts, I was just wondering if it's an okay I do to throw all the action and plot at the audience first compared to a lot of thrillers?
This way I can develop the characters as the story progresses though, as oppose to having scenes, where they are forced to talk about things to each other, before the crimes even happen yet. This way they can talk about the crimes as well, and the scenes also have a little plot in besides character development introduction only.
I want to go with the chase since I thought up a type of chase where several things happen that I have not seen done before. Now usually a chase this big would come later, but during other action scenes in the script, certain things need to happen for twists and turns in the plot during the action. The characters are required to do things in other action scenes for the plot, that they would not logically do during a chase.
Because the plot restricts the further scenes from being chase scenes, the opening is the only part where I can put a chase. It's not just there for an opening chase, though. There are plot turns that happen, that drive more of the story afterwords. Thoughts?
Then in the next scene, a series of violent crimes of a similar nature are committed by the same gang after getting away. It doesn't show every crime, but they are talked about on the news, media, etc. Then the same cop is given as assignment on what to and he then goes and does it. This is different from the usual beginning of a three act structure, as most movies tend to introduce characters first before throwing this much plot at the audience.
There is the hook, but my hook lasts a few scenes, after the first. And not only that, before the audience knows exactly what crimes are happening, they have to watch a 10 minute chase in the opening before it gets to the main plot hook. There are two hooks though, one that went wrong, which leads to the chase, then the one that goes horribly right, and creates the dilemmas. After all that though, the character background and development starts, I was just wondering if it's an okay I do to throw all the action and plot at the audience first compared to a lot of thrillers?
This way I can develop the characters as the story progresses though, as oppose to having scenes, where they are forced to talk about things to each other, before the crimes even happen yet. This way they can talk about the crimes as well, and the scenes also have a little plot in besides character development introduction only.
I want to go with the chase since I thought up a type of chase where several things happen that I have not seen done before. Now usually a chase this big would come later, but during other action scenes in the script, certain things need to happen for twists and turns in the plot during the action. The characters are required to do things in other action scenes for the plot, that they would not logically do during a chase.
Because the plot restricts the further scenes from being chase scenes, the opening is the only part where I can put a chase. It's not just there for an opening chase, though. There are plot turns that happen, that drive more of the story afterwords. Thoughts?
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