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Snow White and the Huntsman
2012 · Film · 127 min
Directed by Rupert Sanders
After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.
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I had to look that film up[1]. It's not a Disney movie so I don't see how that would apply here.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Huntsman
>#19: Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.
With a little bit of retrospection, this seems to be one of the most powerful factors separating the films I've liked from those I haven't.
It's interesting to see how storytelling is like modelling - build a hypothetical universe with hypothetical characters and see what plot(s) emerge(s). If it's unsatisfactory, don't change the plot directly, but instead manipulate the characters until the black box spits out something interesting.
Reflecting on my recent viewing of Snow White and the Huntsman, it makes sense why Charlize Theron's character managed to get so much more developed than the others' - the character-centric story development process naturally produces a wide distribution of character depths.