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Ex Machina Mea Culpa

Episode Summary

Our original analysis of *Ex Machina* relied on subjective interpretation and proved faulty. This updated analysis clears up those issues by taking an objective point-of-view of the film's narrative.

Episode Notes

Our original analysis of Ex Machina relied on subjective interpretation and proved faulty. This updated analysis clears up those issues by taking an objective point-of-view of the film's narrative. In addition we cover how Dramatica is a conflict-detection machine and how its unique set of story points identify the source of that conflict.

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Show Notes & Links

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• Narrative First Search Feature - Search finally installed!
• The Nice Guys Analysis - deep thematic insight of the film's story structure
• Ex Machina Analysis - if read within a day of publishing this podcast it might be wrong, if more than it will be accurate
• Dramatica Takes a Week to Learn - Alex Epstein's insight into Dramatica
• On Acts, Sequences, and Scenes in Dramatica - thoughts on improving Dramatica's implementation of various levels of story structure
• Ex Machina: The Narrative Code Hidden Within the Machine -
• Series of articles on Audience Appreciations - Four Audience Appreciations, four articles of story goodness
• How to Tell If Your Main Character Faces Overwhelming or Surmountable Odds - our brilliant look at the Audience Appreciation of Essence
• The Refusal of the Call: The Resistance or Flow Through a Narrative - an in-depth look at the Audience Appreciation of Tendency
• Predicting Who Will Listen to Your Story - our article on the Story Limit and its impact on the type of Audience that will arrive for a story

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