Linda W. YezakAction is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.
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The quote above is the perfect description of the movie "Silver Linings Playbook." Writer-director David O. Russell has said that he was inspired to make the film after he saw a young man in a mental hospital, who was wearing a Spiderman T-shirt. Russell saw this young man in the mental hospital every single day, but he could always count on seeing Spiderman there. He realized that in order for him to have an emotional reaction to the film, he needed a character that everyone could connect with.
So he wrote a love story about a man with mental problems, and then attached it to an action-adventure story about a crazy dude looking for his lost love. And since both of those things were going on at once, it gave people an emotional attachment to the characters as well as the action.
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