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third act

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Filmikunsti terminibaas Filmterm

ID 454149 Last modified 13.09.2019
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  • Act III is a unit of dramatic action approximately twenty to thirty pages long and goes from the end of Act II, approximately pages 85 to 90 [in a 110-120 pages screenplay], to the end of the screenplay. It is held together with the dramatic context known as Resolution, (Field, 2005, p. 26) i.e. the main story (the central character's story) and the subplots are all resolved in differing ways, but all with some sense of finality - the feeling that the conflict is over. (Howard & Mabley, 1993, p. 25)

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