#CAUSALITY SCREENWRITING MOVIE#

In this relationship, chance and spontaneity become the causes of effects. In other words, one event is the cause or result of another event. Final Cause: that for the sake of which a thing is done.Р”В¬ause or causality link possible events or occurrences and can predict the consequences of an action.

Efficient Cause: the primary source of the change or rest.Р”В¤. Formal Cause: the definition of its essence.Р”Р€. Material Cause: that out of which a thing comes to be.Р”Сћ. Or to be more precise, Aristotelian Causality.Р”Р„gain, that's not to say there weren't others before Aristotle who studied causality but he is perhaps, credited with a much higher and complete understanding of the four causes:Р”РЋ.

As I read more and more about Aristotle and his theories on stories and plays, I found out just how great a man he was but since this article has to do with screenwriting structure, let's funnel it on down to that.Р”В¬ausality.

#CAUSALITY SCREENWRITING MOVIE#

Stories certaintly do contain those three basic forms of structure and without these basic forms, reverse engineering your favorite movie would be an exercise in futility (thanks QT).Р”В«ut that isn't where I started my own analysis of structure in the movies. I think all the screenwriting gurus and screenwriting authors out there agree that he pretty much is the guy we need to thank for coming up with the fact that a story has a beginning, middle, and end.Р”Р„nd hey. I'm sure there were others BEFORE Aristotle that successfully reversed engineered stories but I would venture a guess that he is probably the best known for it.

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