The American President
Storyform
SYNOPSIS: "Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception" and sparks fly anyway." Synopsis source: IMDB.com
Story Dynamics
8 of the 12 essential questions
Main Character Resolve: Change
Main Character Growth: Start
Main Character Approach: Be-er
Main Character Mental Sex: Female
Story Driver: Decision
Story Limit: Timelock
Story Outcome: Failure
Story Judgment: Good
Overall Story Throughline
Battle Over Passage of the Crime Bill
Overall Story Throughline: Physics
Overall Story Concern: Obtaining
Overall Story Issue: Approach vs. Attitude
Overall Story Problem: Reconsider
Overall Story Solution: Consider
Overall Story Symptom: Logic
Overall Story Response: Feeling
Overall Story Catalyst: Attitude
Overall Story Inhibitor: Rationalization
Overall Story Benchmark: Doing
Overall Story Signpost 1: Doing
Overall Story Signpost 2: Learning
Overall Story Signpost 3: Obtaining
Overall Story Signpost 4: Understanding
Main Character Throughline
U.S. Pres. Andrew Shepherd
Main Character Throughline: Mind
Main Character Concern: Subconscious
Main Character Issue: Closure vs. Denial
Main Character Problem: Reconsider
Main Character Solution: Consider
Main Character Symptom: Pursuit
Main Character Response: Avoid
Main Character Unique Ability: Denial
Main Character Critical Flaw: Openness
Main Character Benchmark: Preconscious
Main Character Signpost 1: Memory
Main Character Signpost 2: Preconscious
Main Character Signpost 3: Subconscious
Main Character Signpost 4: Conscious
Influence Character Throughline
Sydney Ellen Wade
Influence Character Throughline: Universe
Influence Character Concern: Future
Influence Character Issue: Openness vs. Preconception
Influence Character Problem: Temptation
Influence Character Solution: Conscience
Influence Character Symptom: Logic
Influence Character Response: Feeling
Influence Character Unique Ability: Preconception
Influence Character Critical Flaw: Closure
Influence Character Benchmark: Progress
Influence Character Signpost 1: Past
Influence Character Signpost 2: Progress
Influence Character Signpost 3: Future
Influence Character Signpost 4: Present
Relationship Story Throughline
Widowed President Single Paramour
Relationship Story Throughline: Psychology
Relationship Story Concern: Becoming
Relationship Story Issue: Rationalization vs. Obligation
Relationship Story Problem: Reconsider
Relationship Story Solution: Consider
Relationship Story Symptom: Support
Relationship Story Response: Oppose
Relationship Story Catalyst: Obligation
Relationship Story Inhibitor: Approach
Relationship Story Benchmark: Being
Relationship Story Signpost 1: Conceptualizing
Relationship Story Signpost 2: Being
Relationship Story Signpost 3: Becoming
Relationship Story Signpost 4: Conceiving
Addditional Story Points
Key Structural Appreciations
Overall Story Goal: Obtaining
Overall Story Consequence: Becoming
Overall Story Cost: Future
Overall Story Dividend: Subconscious
Overall Story Requirements: Doing
Overall Story Prerequisites: Being
Overall Story Preconditions: Progress
Overall Story Forewarnings: Preconscious
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