Last week we began our analysis of the film Crazy Rich Asians, which debuted in 2018,

based on a 2013 novel of the same name.

This was a highly successful film sold as a romantic comedy, but as you saw last week,

there's a lot more to this movie than

First Meet the Eye. This week we're diving into the Five Commandments of Storytelling

and then looking at the four quadrants or acts of the film. This is the Storygrid

podcast. I'm your host Tim Graal, a writer and the CEO of StoryGrid. Joining me shortly

is Rachel Arsenal, a StoryGrid certified editor.

We're spending four weeks looking closely at Crazy Rich Asians and how this masterwork

story was constructed.

We're going to use the StoryGrid methodology created and developed by our founder, Sean

Coim.

If you would like to get a sneak peek into everything we're going to cover,

you can go right now to storygrid.com slash crazy to download a PDF of our completed analysis

of crazy rich Asians. Okay, let's jump in and get started. So let's look at the Global Five Commandments.

So the Global Five Commandments are how we track change in story.

Because we always say a story grid, you know, something has to change.

A value has to shift.

Something has to change.

And this works on all levels of story from the whole manuscript, right?

The whole story from start to finish, but also at the micro level, at the scene level, something has to change.

And if you ask, well, how do you make something change?

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