America and the Movies

More on story.  So, I haven't posted in a long time.... in my defense, no one came pounding on my door demanding I write another post. And this summer has been super busy, between short weekend vacations, working a couple informal jobs, and babysitting my own siblings, I am quite exhausted, and besides that haven't had time to post. OK, I did but I was too tired-ish ok? No guilt tripping. Anyway, this post will be going deeper into the story part of a film because obviously that's the whole point. Beats We kinda covered this in my other story post, but I'll elaborate a bit. Beats are the important, or not, things that happen to characters in movies. So yeah i covered this, but I mostly called it story spine, so I'll differentiate the two now. They're basically the same thing. The spine is what holds the whole story together, and if you have too many small story lines and plots aside of the main ones, IT COLLAPSES. An example of this, sorry Harry Pot