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Hell-bent for the end. We’re at the edge, hoping and fearing - if the hero turns left, all is well, but if she turns right, the world as we know it ends. Clarity is key. It’s not that we don’t have complex emotions or ideas about what it all amounts to – what’s the underlying message or theme – but at this point we crave CLARITY. Will he get the girl, defuse the bomb, kill his evil twin, and escape from the sinking boat surrounded by sharks? This is the OBLIGATORY SCENE: the final showdown between good and evil, and the moment we’ve been waiting for, where the hero…

Screenplay Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy Movie Time: 143 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), daughter of a governor in the Caribbean, feels trapped in a world of proper etiquette. Due to her social standing, she is unable to be with the man she loves, Will Turner (Orlando Bloom). When a commodore of the Royal Navy proposes -- overcome by the feeling of her last freedom slipping from her grasp -- she falls off a cliff into the ocean, which prompts Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to save her. However, Will’s magic coin, exposed to…