I just finished watching RRR, and I was completely blown away.
I loved the action. I loved the dancing. I loved the bromance between the two main characters. I loved how absolutely over the top it was.
As I was watching the film, it reminded me of a TikTok I saw the other day from NYT bestselling author Jason Pargin. In the video, he explains:
“There is a lesson here for writers at all levels. You don’t need your story’s stakes to be the end of the world or even life or death. You just need a clear, relatable protagonist and a clear goal they are trying to achieve that is also relatable and understandable. Then you need to make it extremely clear the difficult obstacles they must overcome. That’s all it takes to keep an audience captivated.”
RRR did this masterfully. From the very first scene in the film, a clear victim and villain are outlined. Then, all it takes is a hero to come save them. Even though the movie is three hours long, it takes less than five minutes to set the scene. This is great writing.
Both of the main characters in the film, Rama Raju and Bheem, have clear goals that they are trying to achieve and clear obstacles that are preventing them from achieving them. I won’t go into too much detail because I recommend that you watch RRR if you haven’t already. But the point is to keep it simple.
Just get the basics down first, and then let the rest of the story unfold.
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I just finished watching RRR, and I was completely blown away.
I loved the action. I loved the dancing. I loved the bromance between the two main characters. I loved how absolutely over the top it was.
As I was watching the film, it reminded me of a TikTok I saw the other day from NYT bestselling author Jason Pargin. In the video, he explains:
“There is a lesson here for writers at all levels. You don’t need your story’s stakes to be the end of the world or even life or death. You just need a clear, relatable protagonist and a clear goal they are trying to achieve that is also relatable and understandable. Then you need to make it extremely clear the difficult obstacles they must overcome. That’s all it takes to keep an audience captivated.”
RRR did this masterfully. From the very first scene in the film, a clear victim and villain are outlined. Then, all it takes is a hero to come save them. Even though the movie is three hours long, it takes less than five minutes to set the scene. This is great writing.
Both of the main characters in the film, Rama Raju and Bheem, have clear goals that they are trying to achieve and clear obstacles that are preventing them from achieving them. I won’t go into too much detail because I recommend that you watch RRR if you haven’t already. But the point is to keep it simple.
Just get the basics down first, and then let the rest of the story unfold.
