• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Breaking Convention

    • Video Essay
April 2018

‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is an exciting thriller about an unlikely pair of misfits trying to solve a forty-year-old crime, but it’s also interesting from a structural perspective. It uses a non-conventional, five-act structure.

This video breaks down the anatomy of an act, to examine how the film breaks the rules while following them at the same time.

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