Beauty, the Beast, and the Shining: a study in structure

A decade-and-a-half late rebuttal to a debunking of the 3-Act Structure b

It’s been fifteen years now since Film Crit Hulk wrote about the “myth” of the three-act structure. The underlying assumption of the argument was that an act is a propulsion-forward of the story, and a story can have as many acts as you want. Hulk attacked the vagueness of structure theory and solved it by making it more vague. Theoretically, one could …