
Screenplay Genre: Sports Drama Movie Time: 104 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) has arrived home from Russia…
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"A movie, I think, is really only four or five moments between two people; the rest of it exists to give those moments their impact and resonance. The script exists for that. Everything does." – Robert Towne
When breaking down a film’s structure, generally speaking, “The Eight Sequences” framework is the standard: two in Act One, four in Act Two, and two in Act Three.
But the number 8 is only part of the equation. If the sequences are what shape a screenplay’s three-act structure, then the five major plot points are the building blocks behind sequence construction: Inciting Incident, Lock In, Midpoint, Main Culmination, and Third Act Twist.
Each analysis of selected features breaks the film down to the essential 5 major plot points, time code of when each plot point occurs included.
Screenplay Genre: Sports Drama Movie Time: 104 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) has arrived home from Russia…
Screenplay Genre: Sports Drama Movie Time: 122 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the heavyweight champion of the…
Screenplay Genre: Sports Drama Movie Time: 102 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Retired heavyweight champion Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) runs a…
Screenplay Genre: Sports Drama Movie Time: 100 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Clubber Lang (Mr. T), a fierce young boxer from…
Screenplay Genre: Sports Drama Movie Time: 119 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Rocky II opens where Rocky I (1976) ended, just…
Screenplay Genre: Drama/Biography Movie Time: 174 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Set in the late 1930s, Maria (Julie Andrews), a nun…
Screenplay Genre: Sports Drama Movie Time: 91 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Apollo Creed, a retired heavyweight champion, hears a news…
Screenplay Genre: Sports Drama Movie Time: 133 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Adonis Johnson, the illegitimate son of famous deceased boxing…
Screenplay Genre: Fantasy/Comedy Movie Time: 92 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT After a grueling and humiliating defeat in a high school…
Screenplay Genre: Fantasy/Action Comedy Movie Time: 94 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Tucked away in the snowy landscape outside Katmandu, Nepal,…