Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
the midpoint of each film is the moment when each protagonist embraces for the first time the quality they will need to become complete and finish their story.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
fundamental unit of dramatic construction – something is confronted by its opposite and revealed to be something else.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
All crisis points, like all choices, are invitations to venture into a different world.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
‘All of us are potential villains,’
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
It’s a basic narrative technique which forces you to read the copy underneath in the hope that it will explain such a superficially strange juxtaposition.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
It’s the ‘moment of truth’.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Our favourite characters are the ones who, at some silent level, embody what we all want for ourselves:
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
However radical the work, it is radical in relation to the primal
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
inciting incidents are simply the first important choice the protagonist makes in any story.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Haven’t we all at some time felt we’re surrounded by idiots,