Your only mistake…is to produce in your audience an effect you didn’t intend, or fail to produce the effect you did. If a film works it is never simply because it followed the rules. If it fails, however, it is almost certainly that the breaking of one or more rule is the root cause.
Screenwriting : I just want to share a favorite quote of mine from Alexander Mackendrick's ON FILM-MAKING: by JJ
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You should learn how the rules work before attempting to break them. It is difficult to break the rules without knowing the how and why the rules work in the first place.
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Richard, I concur. Heartily. One cannot think outside the box until one knows what the box is.