Over at the blog Big Hollywood, Russ Dvonch deconstructs Charlie Chaplin’s picture, The Kid, to better understand what the ingredients are in great screenwriting. Using a lobby card handed out to the audience before they went into the the theater to see the film back in 1921, Dvonch illustrates how that card addressed the three essential questions viewers have for any movie (whether they are aware of them or not).
Though aimed at screenwriters, the post can be appreciated by writers of any medium, as they really pertain to structure than the art of filmmaking.