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This 5 page paper discusses the film "A Beautiful Mind" with reference to Dona Cooper's work on screenwriting. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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most important components. This paper discusses the film with reference to Dona Coopers work on screenwriting. Discussion Dona Cooper writes that people need stories, myths to help them make sense
of their lives. This need goes as far back as the cave, and even though the means of telling stories has changed, the human need to hear them has not
(Cooper, 1997). A good screenwriter needs to understand the audience members internal processes - what they want to hear and see, and how they react to it - in order
to write a screenplay that will engage them. She suggests that there are four emotional needs that audiences have to have fulfilled; amazingly, she also argues that these needs are
the same the world over, for all ages and cultures. Well look at these and see if and how A beautiful mind meets these criteria. The first is the need
for new information. Cooper says that most people will never fly fighters, but they can get an idea of what its like by watching Top gun (Cooper, 1997). Likewise, most
of us will never work in Hollywood, but The player conveys what its like to be a movie mogul. In A beautiful mind, the experience is one we would hope
never to have: schizophrenia. But Russell Crowes amazing performance as John Nash shows us what its like to suffer from this illness. It seems very real because its understated: Crowe
doesnt yell and screech-in fact its very hard to hear him much of the time-but he shows us a man who is utterly convinced that his visual delusions are real.
That gives us new information and takes us to a place most of us have never been before, and hope never to visit again. Coopers second criterion is a need
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