Because today the reader and the viewer have become intelligent and jaded. And so John TRUBY explains that if Shakespeare, Dumas and Victor Hugo wrote such beautiful stories is because they followed to the letter its method.
Or rather he tried to understand what distinguished author of a genius author. And there it must be recognized that its analysis is very thorough and it makes a wonderful synthesis tools of dramaturgy. No doubt that one who manages to understand and assimilate all these concepts has before him an immense field of investigation.
Meanwhile it will swallow the pavement where the simplest ideas alongside the most indigestible formulas, more convoluted and more redundant. Fortunately at the end of chapter "writing exercise" corresponding finally allows to persuade himself that finally we were about understood what the author wanted to say.
I'm not a writer or novelist, with no intention either to try to become one. So out of curiosity, love of cinema and literature that I have bought and read this book. And yes, now I catch myself thinking in terms of "characters", "moral debate", "universe of the story," of "network of symbols," "intrigue" of "weaving scenes "and" symphonic dialogues ".
It amazes you, right? I dissects everything, I multiplied by one hundred reading time, I do not read a book a year, but what I have become smarter!
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