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If You Can't Answer These 6 Questions You Don't Have A Story - Glenn Gers

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Film Courage: How do you define story?

How do you teach it to clients and students?

 

Glenn Gers, Screenwriter: I think the basic idea of a story is that you’re going to

be following a character or characters.

It’s entirely possible to tell the story of multiple characters.

You don’t only have to tell one person’s story.

It’s nice, you can do it, but it is also possible to tell a story with 11 main characters.

It takes a lot of work.

You have to follow each main character and follow their story all the way through the

narrative but in fact I believe any story is really about how a character trying to

accomplish something runs into other people who will help or harm their intention.

It’s sort of like Isaac Newton’s theory of billiard balls that once they get set in

motion they will role in that same direction because they are being pushed by a physical

force like a character is also doing that.

They are trying to get somewhere and they are rolling in a certain direction until either

they hit something or something comes in and knocks into them then that changes their direction

but they are still trying to get to that one place.

The physics kind of falls apart there because billiard balls are not trying to get anywhere

but the idea that things are moving until they run into something else which is also

moving is sort of how characters work.


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