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1. screencraft.org › blog › does-your-movie-conceptDoes Your Movie Concept Have a "Strange Attractor"?

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   Oct 31, 2018 · Hollywood screenwriter Terry Rossio (Aladdin, Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean franchise) seems to have found one in his Strange Attractor blog post. It's often difficult to define what makes a movie concept compelling or ordinary.

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   Hollywood sometimes calls it a 'high concept' -- an idea for a movie that can be stated in one or two sentences. You could substitute 'high concept' for 'strange attractor,' but I think strange attractor is more precise. What good is a short, simple idea for a movie if it doesn't also attract people? For example:

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   One way to look at it is the “Strange Attractor” that Terry Rossio describes. “Put ‘strange’ (meaning ‘unique’) and ‘attractor’ (from ‘attractive,’ meaning ‘compelling’) together and you get ‘strange attractor,’ or ‘something unique that is also compelling.’

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   Jun 19, 2024 · Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Terry Rossio (Shrek, Aladdin, Pirates of the Caribbean) believes that spec scripts must have what he coined “the strange attractor” to grab the attention of Hollywood execs.

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   Oct 25, 2010 · A strange attractor is more precise than high concept because it zeroes in on the most compelling aspect of the premise. A good attractor defines the characters, shapes the plot and drives the action. Conversely, even the most innovative concept can fail if the writer mistakes what element of the story is going to hold the reader.

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   Nov 2, 2018 · Hollywood screenwriter Terry Rossio (Aladdin, Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean franchise) seems to have found one in his Strange Attractor blog post.

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   Is Rossio's Strange Attractor a good movie?

   • It takes more than that. And Rossio's Strange Attractor concept is one that does the best job of defining the seemingly undefinable magic of discovering those special screenplays. In Memento, the story of a man trying to track down his wife's killer is undoubtedly compelling.

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   What is a strange attractor?

   • Put strange (meaning "unique") and attractor (from "attractive," meaning "compelling") together and you get strange attractor, or "something unique that is also compelling." What he is saying is that the concept of your movie should be unique — something that hasn't been done before — while at the same time it must attract people to it.

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   Why did Rossio miss the strange attractor?

   • Because they were missing that special something — the Strange Attractor. It was a term that he stole from fractal geometry — an attracting set that has zero measure in the embedding phase space and has fractal dimension. Now, that definition clearly has no bearing in screenwriting or screenplays. Rossio clarified:

   Does Your Movie Concept Have a "Strange Attractor"?

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   What makes a good strange attractor character?

   • Good Roles (and Good Titles) Writing a unique and exciting character can often be a defining part of the Strange Attractor concept. That character can be the concept overall. Case in point, Forrest Gump. That character is the concept of that film (and the book it was based on). And it's a role that many wanted to play.

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   Do you have a movie if you take away the strange attractors?

   • Take the time travel out of Back to the Future, the superheroes out of Avengers, the "stuck alone on Mars’"out of The Martian, and you’ve lost all of their Strange Attractors. Now you might say, "Well duh, Carson. You don’t have a movie if you take those things away. They’re the entire film!" Yeah but see here’s the thing.

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   What makes Rossio a great movie concept?

   • Rossio was one of many that couldn't pinpoint what made a movie concept special enough to entice readers and audiences to embrace them with pure interest and intrigue.

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9. www.imdb.com › title › tt14343098Strange Attractor (2021) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb

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