I think that McKee's method is much easier than Weston's. I also think that there is nothing wrong with the fact that it is almost a scientific approach to disecting the beats of the scene, because it still allows the director to interpret the scene based on his/her past experiences and apply what he/she knows of human interraction to th scene at hand. I'm sure that no two director's interpretations would come out the same for the given scene. And I really like how he breaks it into a action/reaction beat. However, I do not see how he would apply these same principals to a scene that only contains one person. Weston on the other hand says that every subject change in a scene marks a beat. I find that her approach to the given scene gave roughly the same analysis that Mckee's did just with a different format of thoughts.
Questions:
1.) How would one apply Mckee's method for breaking the scene down into beats with a scene containing only one character?
2.) I feel that Soderberg wrote this screenplay in a way that would allow only him to direct it appropriately. Does anyone else feel this way and why?
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For one character, assuming that he or she is talking to themselve, you could simply map it out just as if it were two characters. After all, is much of our thinking just conversation, us trying to figure things out much the same way two people would.
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