The Un-formulaic Life of the Man Who Invented the Movie Formula

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Wycliffe A. Hill is the grandfather of the cookie cutter Hollywood movie.  Author of Ten Million Photoplay Plots: The Master Key to All Dramatic Plots, which was published in 1919, Hill created an assembly line approach to writing screenplays: character + dramatic situation + setting  = movie. For example: “An old man wrongfully accused of […]

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