…Aristotle 384-322 BCE, in his seminal treatise ‘Poetics or Poetica’ concluded there are seven golden rules of successful story telling. These rules or principles in his days pertained to ancient Greek theatre. Incredibly, today the same seven elements are essential to writing successful film screenplays. Whenever I asked film graduates at NYU if they could guess the seven principal elements of good story telling, they would between them quickly answer correctly the following six elements, which Aristotle prioritized as:

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…People in Hollywood like to say that if Shakespeare were alive today, he’d be a screenwriter. But what about the philosopher Aristotle? Writers who know their family trees are aware that Aristotle laid the foundations of storytelling instruction around 335 BC in his work Poetics. Not much of western civilization has gone untouched by Aristotle’s influential mind, and writers of the greatest stories have been using the Poetics; probably completely unaware of it at the time. A former story analyst for Miramax Films, Michael Tierno, has built the bridge from this foundation in his book, Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters.

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