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Chapter 24 THE
IRREVERSIBLE CHANGE: Watching a movie, the audience sees a parade of actions, pieces of dialogue, and dramatic bits that follow one another in a logical succession of cause and effect that seems not only coherent, but as if it was the only possible succession. In this flawlessly prearranged world, it seems that the boy couldn't possibly get the girl before he met her and that, after he got her, he's inexorably destined to lose her. The audience may think that the screenwriter created that story one event after the other, that he started to dream his fiction from the movie's distributor logo to the final credits roll. Viewers believe a screenplay is written in the same way as they see it, starting with the first image on the screen and ending with the last. And, as we writers know, nothing could be further from the truth. |
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