In this episode, we're going to keep diving into John Wick and analyzing all of the story elements that made this movie a masterwork.

In this episode, we're going to look at the Five Commandments of Storytelling and how it abided by it throughout the entire story to make it work.

And we're going to look at the genre conventions and how John Wick abided by those as well.

But first, just so you know, this is the Storygrid podcast. My name is Tim Graal. I'm the CEO of Storygrid and a writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

Joining me shortly is Rachel Arsenal. She's a Story Grid certified editor, and she's along to make sure I don't give the wrong

answers. Just so you know, if you want to download the entire Storygrid analysis of John Wick,

you can do that right now by going to Storygrid.com slash Wic. Also, right now, Sean is getting

ready to start his genre blueprint training.

This is a 14-week live training, which is a deep dive into genre, and you're not going to want to miss it.

You can go right now to storygrid.com slash blueprint to see more about that.

Otherwise, let's go ahead and jump back in to John Wick and get started.

All right.

So next up, we need to look at the five commandments of storytelling.

So before we get into that, Rachel, what are the five commandments and why are they useful?

Oh, okay.

All right.

This is a big topic.

So you use the five commandments at all levels of story. And they do so many things. So I will try to give like a nice, a succinct version of the Global Five Commandments. So the Global Five Commandments really serve as our major way stations for the story.

So what they do is they help us create an arc for our story or help us identify an arc or a lack thereof in our work, right?

If we're looking at it, we're trying to evaluate what it had, like, you know, where

it's at, if it has a full arc arc all that good stuff um so our inciting

incident right is the um the event that kicks off the story we uphold that the inciting incident

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