Although his affection for Boo has been growing throughout the Second Act, this is where he becomes fully aligned with loving her and taking care of her. Midpoint: Boo escapes and Sully mistakenly believes she’s being pulverized in a trash compacter. Although this scene is the clear turning point in the First Half of the Second Act, we’ve also got a nice little pinch with Randall, a few scenes later, in which he and Fungus discuss their predicament and Randall warns that whenever he finds who’s responsible, “they are dead!” However, they discover the factory is crawling with CDA officials, searching for the child and whoever was responsible for letting her in. Not only is it charmingly hilarious, it’s also a super example of a “flip” Normal World: the protagonist doesn’t leave his Normal World rather, a stranger enters the Normal World and forever changes it.įirst Pinch Point: Sully and Mike disguise Boo as Sully’s “cousin’s sister’s daughter” and take her to the factory in an effort to return her home. Before ejecting the door, Mike pokes his head inside to check if anyone is there-and unwittingly lets out the little girl Boo. We’ve also got a nice instance of Mike rejecting the “Call to Adventure” when he refuses to engage with Randall and tells Sully, “One of these days, I am really going to let you teach that guy a lesson.”įirst Plot Point: That night, Sully returns to the Scarefloor to take care of Mike’s paperwork and discovers Randall secretly working with a door. However, the Randall scene does provide the story with the necessary tone and pacing-and it does introduce the viewers to the conflict, with Randall as the (seeming) primary antagonist. His portentous comment about “winds of change” is about the main conflict, but it’s so subtle that it makes no obvious impact on the protagonists. Randall’s bullying in the locker room also isn’t a new event. But that, in itself, isn’t an Inciting Event, since it’s something that happens to the protagonists every single day. We have an obvious turn in the plot when the scaring begins. The Inciting Event also isn’t particularly strong. As much as I love this movie, I do find the First Act a little weak, if only because it’s so exposition heavy (although it’s executed so charmingly, it’s almost forgivable). They all then enter the Scarefloor, and the day’s work of collecting scream begins. Inciting Event: In the locker room, Randall threatens Sully and Mike, telling them the “winds of change” are coming.
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