The Moral Premise Blog: Story Structure Craft

Discussion and analysis of screenplays, scripts, and story structure for filmmakers and novelists, based on the blogger's book: "THE MORAL PREMISE: Harnessing Virtue and Vice for Box Office Success".

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Moral Premise Makes It To The Sony Lot

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I've been sworn to secrecy, but I can tell you this. Last week I was flown to Los Angeles to screen a major movie in its editing stage (...
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Friday, August 22, 2008

He LIked the Book --- I Guess

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HE LIKED THE BOOK... I GUESS Last month I wrote how months earlier I received a call from an assistant at Overbrook Entertainment, Will S...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

Hollywood Calls... sort of

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Will Smith in I AM LEGEND A few months ago I received a call from a lady who said her boss who owned a production company in Los Angeles ...
Saturday, July 12, 2008

Oregon Bloggers Discover Moral Premise

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Today (9/4/08, actually) I received this nice email: Dr. Williams, I recently read your book, The Moral Premise, and enjoyed it greatly! La...
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Helen's Lost Arc in THE INCREDIBLES

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My Moral Premise pen pal from Greece, Geroge C. wrote me with this very good analysis of Helen's arc in THE INCREDIBLES, thus pointing o...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Why Are Stories Necessary? Part 2

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What follows is George Chatzigeorgiou's response (who writes from Greece) to my June 10, 2008 post, which was my (long) answer to his qu...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Why Are Stories Necessary? Part 1

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I received the following question from my friend George Chatzigeorgiou in Greece, whose excellent input to understanding the moral premise (...
Monday, June 9, 2008

Stories and Movies - A Window to Our Divine Destiny

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(Originally published by CatholicExchange.com April 2, 2002) Why are good stories and movies so popular? The last two years (2000-2001) s...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Midnight Run

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Almost a year ago I received this analysis from a reader in Greece, George Chatzigeorgiou. My delay in moving his comment from the comments ...
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Saturday, December 22, 2007

The Double Moral Premise

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Almost a year ago, a screenwriter (known to me only as PopcornFlix) wrote me the following email, and we had a couple of follow-ups, that I...
Friday, April 20, 2007

The Prestige (2006)

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Virtue to Extremes is Vice Christopher Priest - Author Jonathan Nolan - Screenwriter Christopher Nolan - Screenwriter Christopher Nolan...
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Monday, April 9, 2007

FINDING FORRESTER (2000)

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Director: Gus Van Sant Mike Rich - Written by Sean Connery - William Forrester Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace F. Murray Abraham - Robert Cra...
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