The Heart of Your Script
The Insider’s Guide to Writing the Difficult Middle Section of a Screenplay
The Heart of Your Script
The Insider’s Guide to Writing the Difficult Middle Section of a Screenplay
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While there are many guides to screenwriting, none of them tackle the specific difficulties of writing the tricky mid-section of the screenplay. The Heart of Your Script reveals the six key elements that are crucial for ensuring an emotionally satisfying and dramatically engaging center to any script.
Using a broad range of concise case studies, including contemporary films such as Aftersun (2022), The Whale (2022), Shoplifters (2018), Talk to Me (2022), Barbie (2023) and Oppenheimer (2023), canonical texts such as Back to the Future (1985), Seven Samurai (1954) and There Will Be Blood (2007) and cult classics like Swiss Army Man, (2016), Jennifer's Body (2009) and Heathers (1988), Ted Wilkes and Phil Hughes provide helpful tips and tricks to assist writers in finding out what is at the heart of the story they want to tell and how to ensure that it is coming through in their stories. Refusing any single method for structuring this central portion, Wilkes and Hughes offer a character-centred study, which allows aspiring screenwriters to map their dramatic journey from the inside out.
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Table of Contents
2 Willing
3 Unknowing
4 Unable to believe
5 Accidental
6 Mistaken
7 Willing case study: Inside Out 2 (2024)
8 Unknowing case study: The Fall Guy (2024)
9 Unable-to-believe case study: Barbie (2023)
10 Accidental case study: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
11 Mistaken case study: Talk to Me (2023)
12 Character Is Structure does TV
Product details
| Published | 25 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781839028120 |
| Imprint | British Film Institute |
| Illustrations | 6 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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