“Feed the Birds” (from Mary Poppins, above) seems like a sweet, lilting lullaby simply meant to put two misbehaving children to sleep. That’s its brilliance, however, for a deeper look at this number provides us the key to the whole story.
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The Lego Movie: How Moving Pieces Make Movies that Move
In order to use these building blocks then, the key is to take a “block” from one point of your story, and show it in a different context at a later point.
Ben-Hur: the Win of a Vengeance Loses Out to the Victory on a Cross
n any case, a well-told story creates a compelling dynamic that balances out the personal journeys of its characters while creating a larger context for the audience to draw meaning from for their own lives.
Jurassic Park: How Scientists and Dinosaurs Played God
Love it or hate it, the film is a cinematic milestone (which Spielberg then topped with his follow-up, Schindler’s List) and has a great premise full of life-and-death thrills.
Inherit the Wind: Don’t Monkey with Story Issues
This story is a study on what happens when people elevate topical and controversial issues above their personal relationships and others’ free exercise of truth. In fact, the titular reference to Proverbs 11:29 is used within the story to give an ironic comment on that dynamic.
Tootsie: How a Risky Character Created a Character Who Took Risks
The premise is about an out-of-work actor playing a woman. The argument is about the way that men treat women and how women want to be treated by men. In order to do either meaningfully, a man has to take a risk and see things from a woman’s perspective.