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XVII, n. What I intend to do is to explore in further detail what stories consist of and why they are written the way they are written.

In this sense, their perspective and mine differ. Theirs can be called technical; mine is theoretico-practical. My aim in what follows is to suggest a new reading of Poetics —associated with prudential decisions of writers and spectators— more humanistic and practical than technical or sociological in nature. To put it briefly and di- rectly, the core idea of the following pages is that screenwriting is not only a technical matter focusing on the suitable use of narrative tools, but that it is a human activity in which other dimensions come into play.

This difference in perspective makes it advisable on this occasion to omit citing and referring to the aforementioned screenwriting experts, or to oth- ers such as Kenneth Atchity and Chi-Li Wong9; Tami D. A step-by-step guide from concept to finished script, Dell, Saying that the tragedy is always about human praxis also means saying —without thereby allowing grounds for subjectivist relativism— that it deals Vol.

As can be seen, there are two issues being dealt with here. On the one hand, there is the poetic work, with the characteristics that make it duly poe- tical and, on the other, there is the reality that this work always imitates or re-presents: human praxis. This is as far as I shall go in the consideration of the poetic myth, in its strong sense, as a configurator of texts.

This proposal deals first and foremost with the reception of the story, but, as we shall see, it can also be applied to approach the process of rewriting. The former consists in the intellectual and technical comprehension of the text, whereas the latter is the real-life application of the sense of the movie by the person that is watching it However, there is perhaps a slight displacement into the future of application with respect to comprehension —as comprehension necessarily precedes and projects application.

A view I cannot share as I prefer that offered by Um- berto Eco in his meaning of the text In other words, there is a necessary configuration requirement, as explained before. This takes us to the point I wanted to make. And this is what poetic mimesis consists in. In this phase the writer treats the characters like persons and Vol. In this phase the screen- writer endeavours to make all the elements of the script aim at the point of the story.

My italics. And from there, once again back to the particular the rewriting of the plot. An example may help to clarify what I mean From this incident, this student came to the conclusion that her story was exploring the awakening of conscience. This awareness, triggered by the text itself, helped her to rewrite the plot. It made her realize that at the end of her story her protagonist could not possibly stay with her lover without betraying the soul of the story that she was trying to tell.

A screenwriter is not some- body who knows where the treasure is hidden, that is, the sense of the story, because he buried it and later pretends to have found it. On the contrary, a screenwriter, as a rule, is somebody who does not know what he will find un- til he writes the story and rethinks it.

Seen this way, screenwriting is always an engaging craft that calls for commitment, since it involves exploring what may be worthy or unworthy in human life in fictional situations. In art there are no recipes that guarantee success. Therefore, it is an activity in which the capability for mistake and to learn from mistakes as well as in life is a constituent part.

In script writing and rewriting, this means that the author can only know what he must do by doing it, and that it is in this doing that he expresses a Vol. Curso , pro manuscripto, p. Nothing in a narration is there just by chance, everything has a cause. This dramatic need requirement prevents the use or instrumentalization of the work as a vehicle to communicate any aspect that is not strictly poetic.

The first one is the fact that writing and rewriting stories as well as read- ing or watching them on screen belongs within the sphere of culture and not only of entertainment. The cinema and fiction contents on television have a humanistic dimension that, as such, can contribute to cultivating and understanding man With no intention of joining in the academic debate on the issue of genre46, suffice it to remember that genres as a rule are born to Vol.

The poetic proposal outlined in these pages may in practice help the screenwriter to overcome this difficulty If the stories are representations of human praxis and if it is possible to arrive at the crucial action that gives them unity, i. From this perspective, it is possible to say that Action and Adventure movies operate on the basis of a trio of emotions or passions —hope, anger and boldness— in the presence of evil.

Terror movies are articulated round the effect of fear produced by the Vol. Reconocimiento, identidad y diferencia, Episteme, Valencia, vol. The Comedy genre is more radical because its specific characteristic underlines the condition of inferiority of the character and, at the same time, encourages a merciful look from the viewer.

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