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"Rosebud!" The famous, first murmured word from Orson Welles' 1941 cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane, is a plant, only to be paid off at the end of the film when it's revealed that the enigmatic "Rosebud" was Mr. Kane's childhood sled. Planting and payoff is a device by which a motif, a line of dialogue, a gesture, behavioral mannerism, costume, prop or any combination of these is introduced into a story and then often repeated as the story progresses, until in the changed circumstances toward the resolution, the planted information assumes a new meaning and "pays…

Screenplay Genre: Adventure / Drama / Fantasy Movie Time: 125 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT It's been three years since Will Bloom (Billy Crudup) last spoke with his father Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), but he flies back home to see his dad, who is dying of cancer. Will enters his father's bedroom and asks his dad to tell him the true version of the stories Edward has told all his life. Edward refuses, saying that his stories have always been the truth. (00:15:02)