Speechwriters, reporters, essayists… for them, audience is essential. In fact, all writing should be crafted with the audience in mind. Even Shakespeare wrote to an audience – from the groundlings to the gentlemen – and he used an array of devices to connect and involve that wide audience with his plays. Rarely does a writer ignore the audience and find sellable success, and this is especially true in screenwriting. It is a business after all, the audience your customer. And you must write for that customer – Always! It’s helpful to think of screenwriting as a…

Screenplay Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller Movie Time: 148 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT After botching an extraction job for their employer Cobol Engineering, Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) decide to lay low for a while, but before they can take a chopper out of the city, Saito (Ken Watanabe) offers Cobb a proposal. Saito assures Cobb that he will be able to return to the United States and see his children if Cobb carries out an “inception”: making Saito’s main competitor’s son decide to break up his father’s empire.…