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Themes

The document provides guidance on developing themes in stories and communicating them effectively through various techniques. It suggests choosing a value-based theme like love, justice or caring. The theme should be dramatized through the deepest beliefs about human life and presented as a question rather than a premise. Each character should reveal a facet of the overall theme. Recurring images, dialogue, motifs and colors should be used to repeat the theme throughout the script.

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Themes

The document provides guidance on developing themes in stories and communicating them effectively through various techniques. It suggests choosing a value-based theme like love, justice or caring. The theme should be dramatized through the deepest beliefs about human life and presented as a question rather than a premise. Each character should reveal a facet of the overall theme. Recurring images, dialogue, motifs and colors should be used to repeat the theme throughout the script.

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Prabhash Ranjan
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9s Chart.

Humanity in jeopardy: dehumanization of modern society, Hope over despair , Good vs Evil

Topic:

THEME

Name: Value list: love, justice , caring , truth etc

Relationship theme: passion( pianist) lost love( annie hall, casablanca) *convey the theme through subplot

Turn theme into question, not premise can love even defies death?

Dramatize your deepest belief about human being and best way to live their lives. Terminator is more than just a woman trying to escape from robot its abt technology going terribly wrong . ET is more than just boy helping a stranded alien go home,its abt friendship and believing,

Have each character reveal a facet of the overall theme Ex.in Godfather which is about power. Vito corleone wants to keep it, despite modern changes in drug trade, Michael doesn't want anything to with it at first, but then he's forced or seduce to embrace it, and Sonny can't handle it.

Communicate it through images, Dialogue leitmotifs, and colors: repeat related images throughout your script. Recurring image associated not only with a theme, but also a person, situation or idea.. ex. water is constant symbol in chinatown.ie fish pond, ocean, water torrents . Plot- characters drowning, corrupts controlling the water supply. Dialogue-he's got water on his brain

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