Comments on: A Story within a (Toy) Story http://thestorydepartment.com.au/a-story-within-a-toy-story/ Create Stories to be Seen Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:00:34 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: <img src="http://thestorydepartment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/geosmart/flags/au.png" alt="Australia" /> Oscar <small id="gs_author_location">from New South Wales, Australia</small> http://thestorydepartment.com.au/a-story-within-a-toy-story/comment-page-1/#comment-2235 Australia Oscar from New South Wales, Australia Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:29:00 +0000 http://thestorydepartment.com.au/?p=4326#comment-2235 What I love about the mini-hero's journey opening Toy Story 2 is how it pays off with a hilarious ironic counterpoint in the third act. It even playfully satirizes Star Wars with a Luke-Vader son-father domestic idyll! Those who complain that adhering to 3-act structure is cookie-cutter scriptwriting forget that the rules are there to be broken or subverted, which Toy Story 2 does brilliantly. What I love about the mini-hero’s journey opening Toy Story 2 is how it pays off with a hilarious ironic counterpoint in the third act. It even playfully satirizes Star Wars with a Luke-Vader son-father domestic idyll! Those who complain that adhering to 3-act structure is cookie-cutter scriptwriting forget that the rules are there to be broken or subverted, which Toy Story 2 does brilliantly.

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