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The Dramatica Users Group analyzes a film each month. We use Dramatica's unique insights into story to figure out how the film's story works--and when it doesn't work--and how story problems might have been fixed. Look for our Podcast in the iTunes Music Store.
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Film synopsis: "As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her passion at Berklee College of Music and her fear of abandoning her parents." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the Principal thinks of that." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Dramatica analysis of "The Power of the Dog". Film synopsis: "Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love." (Source: IMDB.com)
Dramatica analysis of "Minari". Film synopsis: "A Korean family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas." (Source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Though the Dramatica Users Group discussed "tick...tick...BOOM!" twice, this podcast only covers the second, more successful story analysis.
Film synopsis: "Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen, is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school. While she is there, she figures out that there is more to her than just looks." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "A heavy-metal drummer's life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time," (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant." (synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "One night in New Mexico, in the late 1950s, a switchboard operator and radio DJ discover a strange audio frequency which could change the future forever." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Film synopsis: "A hopelessly romantic Chicago Transit Authority token collector is mistaken for the fiancée of a coma patient." (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
Story embroidery is the process of generating a random storyform (with gists) and a random set of character archetypes using Dramatica and then turning those random choices into a story through the process of illustration the storyform, story point by story point.
Film synopsis: "When a new toy called "Forky" joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy" (Synopsis source: IMDB.com)
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