After our look at Blake Snyder and John Truby's Paradigms I attempted to apply them to the film Taken (2008), which I watched over that same weekend. I found that many of the major beats matched up with Blake Snyder's version somewhat but that there were some that didn't. I had a harder time applying the 22 steps, so they either didn't apply as well or I possibly found it harder to reassign the plot points to the different structure after doing Blake Snyder's version first.
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| My incomplete attempt to apply Blake Snyder and John Truby's Paradigms to Taken (2008) |
Thank you for trying, Sarah! The purpose of the exercise was to illustrate first-hand how inflexible some of these paradigms can be! Thanks!
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