FIPR 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Strongest
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Wants or needs can be the character"s weakness of the element that makes them incomplete . A specific objective creates the character"s journey. The objective identify the achievable goal and the story changes from just looking for something to how to get there! The hero"s objective only through the hero"s objective can the screenplay be analyzed fully. He pursuit of the objective determines the course of the action and the effort the hero makes to achieve it no matter how difficult the path. There can only be one main objective creates dramatic unity. The objective breeds opposition produces conflict. The nature of the objective determines the audience"s attitude towards the hero. What happens to the objective is essential to the story"s emotional impact. External a place of thing the hero must attain. Internal a transformation the hero must undergo in order to succeed. The strongest objectives or conflicts are hybrids of the internal and the external.
