There is a difference in script structure, and these differences have been broken into two categories, masculine and feminine.
Masculine:
Masculine:
The masculine script is linear in nature. Many action films or tragedies follow the masculine script structure. There is a progression from beginning to climax to resolution. The resolution establishes a new balance which can be the same, better, or worse than how it was in the beginning.
Picture a chain, where each event connects and builds upon the other, often ending in a climatic showdown. Plot is important and time logic is often followed. This is a masculine plot.
Feminine:
Picture a chain, where each event connects and builds upon the other, often ending in a climatic showdown. Plot is important and time logic is often followed. This is a masculine plot.
Feminine:
A feminine script is circular in nature. Many romantic comedies follow a feminine script progression. More concerned with exploration of theme, then progression of script. Can be a debate of social structure, answer and response, exploration of emotion or a celebration of life's joy and human behavior. Picture a spiral, each section of a play is completed when the spiral is closed, there is not a climatic showdown and time logic is unimportant. The closing scene is often not a specific resolution, but a bringing together of threads. Theme and idea are more important than strict adherence to plot. This is a feminine script.
Can you think of examples of masculine and feminine scripts?
Source:
Ball, D. (1983). Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays, Southern Illinois University.
Can you think of examples of masculine and feminine scripts?
Source:
Ball, D. (1983). Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays, Southern Illinois University.
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