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To make matters worse, others speak of "Opportunity" or "Disturbance", "Catalyst" etc.

"A Las Vegas-set comedy centered around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him."

Lengthy sneak peek from the "Tales from the Script" DVD. Looks worth getting.

"Let us instead look at a suspense scene. The bomb is under the table and the audience is aware of this because they have seen the anarchist plant it there. They also know that the bomb will go off at one o’clock, and up on the wall is a clock showing that the time is now quarter to one […]. In the first scene we have given the audience 15 seconds of surprise […] but in the last scene we have given them fifteen minutes of suspense.”

And some setups from The Sixth Sense. Another article.

"As it stands, Dr. Grant simply learns to care about the children. But what has really changed in him? What did he learn? Would it not have been more dramatically pleasing to have the children teach him how chaos is not just a disruptive element, but sometimes an essential component of life?"

Here's the 2006 version of the Prince of Persia screenplay. It's due for release in May 2010 with Jake Gyllenhaal starring.

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance.

Added bonus: Avatar, The Untouchables, and A Beautiful Mind sequence breakdowns. Bear in mind Avatar is a much longer movie so has more sequences.

"The Expanded Scene Breakdown is a 20 to 40+ page point by point, step by step, scene by scene outline of the entire screenplay in prose form using dialogue, character development, action, etc."

"More and more, agents and producers are asking writers for a one-sheet after hearing an intriguing pitch."

Download the Avatar script directly from Fox.

Here's a summary of the scriptment.

Interview with David Johnson on "Orphan"

Andrew Stanton - screenwriter of A Bug's Life