ABSTRACT
Screenwriters understand that it's always better to have a scene accomplish more than one thing. It's far better to have one scene in which three storylines move forward or one story moves forward three times, than to have three separate scenes with only one thing accomplished in each. So when writing a screenplay that includes a love story, and needs to accomplish four main tasks (The Meet, The Crack, The Obstacle, and Why You?), sometimes, it's just good story telling to multitask and cover a few of these all at once. This chapter presents Moonstruck, which is a good example of the combo one-two punch approach. When Loretta meets Ronny Cammareri, Shanley covers all four items on the list in one great scene. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin combines all four elements into one fun Cute Meet scene.
