The Conversation
Storyform
Film synopsis: "A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple, on whom he is spying, will be murdered." (Source: IMDB.com)
Story Dynamics
8 of the 12 essential questions
Main Character Resolve: Change
Main Character Growth: Stop
Main Character Approach: Do-er
Main Character Mental Sex: Male
Story Driver: Action
Story Limit: Optionlock
Story Outcome: Failure
Story Judgment: Bad
Overall Story Throughline
Preventing a murder plot from succeeding
Overall Story Throughline: Physics
Overall Story Concern: Understanding
Overall Story Issue: Senses vs. Interpretation
Overall Story Problem: Perception
Overall Story Solution: Actuality
Overall Story Symptom: Self-Aware
Overall Story Response: Aware
Overall Story Catalyst: Interpretation
Overall Story Inhibitor: Situation
Overall Story Benchmark: Obtaining
Overall Story Signpost 1: Learning
Overall Story Signpost 2: Understanding
Overall Story Signpost 3: Obtaining
Overall Story Signpost 4: Doing
Main Character Throughline
Harry Caul
Main Character Throughline: Universe
Main Character Concern: Past
Main Character Issue: Prediction vs. Interdiction
Main Character Problem: Perception
Main Character Solution: Actuality
Main Character Symptom: Change
Main Character Response: Inertia
Main Character Unique Ability: Interdiction
Main Character Critical Flaw: Evidence
Main Character Benchmark: Future
Main Character Signpost 1: Present
Main Character Signpost 2: Past
Main Character Signpost 3: Progress
Main Character Signpost 4: Future
Influence Character Throughline
Anne
Influence Character Throughline: Mind
Influence Character Concern: Memory
Influence Character Issue: Evidence vs. Suspicion
Influence Character Problem: Desire
Influence Character Solution: Ability
Influence Character Symptom: Self-Aware
Influence Character Response: Aware
Influence Character Unique Ability: Suspicion
Influence Character Critical Flaw: Prediction
Influence Character Benchmark: Subconscious
Influence Character Signpost 1: Conscious
Influence Character Signpost 2: Memory
Influence Character Signpost 3: Preconscious
Influence Character Signpost 4: Subconscious
Relationship Story Throughline
Watcher/Watched
Relationship Story Throughline: Psychology
Relationship Story Concern: Conceptualizing
Relationship Story Issue: Situation vs. Circumstances
Relationship Story Problem: Perception
Relationship Story Solution: Actuality
Relationship Story Symptom: Chaos
Relationship Story Response: Order
Relationship Story Catalyst: Circumstances
Relationship Story Inhibitor: Senses
Relationship Story Benchmark: Becoming
Relationship Story Signpost 1: Conceiving
Relationship Story Signpost 2: Being
Relationship Story Signpost 3: Conceptualizing
Relationship Story Signpost 4: Becoming
Addditional Story Points
Key Structural Appreciations
Overall Story Goal: Understanding
Overall Story Consequence: Conceptualizing
Overall Story Cost: Memory
Overall Story Dividend: Past
Overall Story Requirements: Obtaining
Overall Story Prerequisites: Becoming
Overall Story Preconditions: Subconscious
Overall Story Forewarnings: Future
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