Is this rule somewhat flexible?
Sometimes we see a plot point happening before the beginning to add more backstory, but not necessarily set it as the inciting incident. What I mean is a situation where the character(s) gets his life transformed by a event, but before the first page of the script. This causes the movie to start right away with his/her journey without waisting a minute. Maybe not the best example, but Memento does this. Where the entire plot point is the death of the protagonist's wife, and his later memory problem. Her murder happens before the scripts begins and then he si already doing his revenge (scene order aside). We don't wait for that incident in the first 15 minutes.
My question comes beacuse I don't have an inciting incident. Or better said, I have it as backstory. Can this be a problem or is just another rule myth that can be cheated?
Sometimes we see a plot point happening before the beginning to add more backstory, but not necessarily set it as the inciting incident. What I mean is a situation where the character(s) gets his life transformed by a event, but before the first page of the script. This causes the movie to start right away with his/her journey without waisting a minute. Maybe not the best example, but Memento does this. Where the entire plot point is the death of the protagonist's wife, and his later memory problem. Her murder happens before the scripts begins and then he si already doing his revenge (scene order aside). We don't wait for that incident in the first 15 minutes.
My question comes beacuse I don't have an inciting incident. Or better said, I have it as backstory. Can this be a problem or is just another rule myth that can be cheated?
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