{"id":3165,"date":"2010-10-28T15:19:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T14:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2010-10-28T15:19:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T14:19:03","slug":"day-four-at-equinoxe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/day-four-at-equinoxe\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Four at eQuinoxe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3168\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/howard-suber.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3168 lazyload\" title=\"howard-suber\" data-src=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/howard-suber-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Howard Suber, UCLA Film School\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3168\" title=\"howard-suber\" src=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/howard-suber-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Howard Suber, UCLA Film School\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Howard Suber, UCLA Film School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This post is inspired by a &#8220;blogette&#8221; sent out by <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoweroffilm.com\/ \">Dr. Howard Suber<\/a>, founder of the UCLA Producers Program, to his UCLA class on film structure. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been fortunate to receive these posts as his former teaching assistant and long time admirer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoweroffilm.com\/ \">Dr. Suber<\/a> is the man from whom I have learned nearly everything I know about film. \u00a0His recent post also considers a topic of discussion that has been on-going at the workshop in Schloss Elmau. \u00a0Here is a very brief excerpt.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Monday\u2019s discussion of <strong>Citizen Kane<\/strong>, I\u2019ll be talking about what I call \u201cThe Reality Fallacy.\u201d Those of you who have had Film Structure before know that one of my foundation principles is that, for most people, <strong>the function of film and television is not to provide a reflection of the world, but to provide a compensation for it.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Life is chaotic, messy, confusing and confounding. \u00a0Audiences don&#8217;t go to movies to see the difficult, harsh and often terrible tribulations of life. \u00a0They get enough of that in their own day-to-day existence.<\/p>\n<p>Audiences go to movies to help make <em>sense<\/em> of life. \u00a0They go to movies looking for what it all means. \u00a0The most successful movies provide some kind of deeper meaning, lesson or glimpse of the triumph of the human spirit. \u00a0This doesn&#8217;t mean audiences want a &#8220;Hollywood happy ending,&#8221; \u00a0It means that they want an ending that has consequence and is transformative on some level. \u00a0They want an ending that is emotionally satisfying because it has been earned.<\/p>\n<p>The best movies do this by creating rich, deep relationships between the characters. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thepoweroffilm.com\/ \">Dr. Suber<\/a> also teaches that there are no interesting characters per se&#8211; there are only interesting character <em>relationships<\/em>. \u00a0It is in their relationships that characters truly come alive, are forced to make hard choices and discover where their values truly lie.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Suber has written a wonderful book, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoweroffilm.com\/ \">The Power of Film<\/a><\/strong>, that should be required reading for any one who is serious about pursuing a career in television or 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