Moral Premise: Harnessing Virtue and Vice for Box Office Success

This book explains how the Moral Premise a statement of truth about the protagonists psychological predicament is a fundamental part of every successful movies structure. It is also a book about how you, the filmmaker, can appropriate the Moral Premise to create great motion pictures that resonate with large audiences. You will learn: the history and theory of the Moral Premise; its components and structure; its use in creating remarkable character arcs, act breaks, turning points, and dramatic beats; and, a step-by-step method for embedding a true Moral Premise into a three-act screenplay. You can understand and embrace one of the most fundamental structural aspects of storytelling, the basis for the most popular movies of all time. You can use what has proven to be successful in the process entertain, delight, challenge, and uplift this generation and the ones to come.