| > whereas any writer in Hollywood will try to introduce it as early as possible I like the Lynch version of this in Lost Highway: 1. Conflict: someone sent us a video of the outside of our house. 2. Rising Conflict: oh no, now they sent us a video of the inside of our house! 3. Conglitch: now they sent us a video of me murdering my wife?!? Didn't I just see her go in the bedroom? 4. Sogflatch: wait wut now I'm getting sentenced for murdering my wife?!? 5. Segfault: Hey Warden, the guy who murdered his wife disappeared and now there's a different guy in his cell!!! 6. Reboot: New guy adjusting to life after materializing in and getting released from the murderer's cell... There's a similar game with conflict in Blue Velvet where "teen coming-of-age plot arc" becomes entangled with a separate "drug-addled adult plot arc." The latter ends up dominating to the point where the "teen drama" bullies get scared and drive off from what would have been the climax of their plot arc (never to be seen again!). |