There are many "Rules" that float around the screenwriting world. I think I have learned most of them, then one time or another I have broken said rule.
Whatever serves the story is my mantra.
But one "rule", "suggestion", "practice" that I have pretty much never broken is the one where our protagonist (s) always get themselves out of trouble by their own ingenuity.
I am writing a script where I have cornered our heroes and I don't know how to get them out.
I don't want to give away the whole premise of the script, but it is a comedy. I have two characters chasing after hot Goth women. Well one thing leads to another and they find themselves tied on up and about to be sacrificed to what ever devil deity I come up with. They are pretty much screwed. This happens in the middle of the story.
So how do I get them out, without having a deus ex machina moment?
I was thinking that I could do what I want, since it is the middle of the script and the guys have not yet solved their internal and external problems yet. Which they will, since I have already figured that out in my outline.
But, I am still at a pause, about this middle scene. If I give them a lucky break in the middle, it just bugs me. Or am I over-thinking this.
Whatever serves the story is my mantra.
But one "rule", "suggestion", "practice" that I have pretty much never broken is the one where our protagonist (s) always get themselves out of trouble by their own ingenuity.
I am writing a script where I have cornered our heroes and I don't know how to get them out.
I don't want to give away the whole premise of the script, but it is a comedy. I have two characters chasing after hot Goth women. Well one thing leads to another and they find themselves tied on up and about to be sacrificed to what ever devil deity I come up with. They are pretty much screwed. This happens in the middle of the story.
So how do I get them out, without having a deus ex machina moment?
I was thinking that I could do what I want, since it is the middle of the script and the guys have not yet solved their internal and external problems yet. Which they will, since I have already figured that out in my outline.
But, I am still at a pause, about this middle scene. If I give them a lucky break in the middle, it just bugs me. Or am I over-thinking this.
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