https://www.thestorydepartment.com/a-story-within-a-toy-story/ Story. Screenplay. Sale. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.thestorydepartment.com/a-story-within-a-toy-story/#comment-224 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:29:00 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=4326#comment-224 What I love about the mini-hero’s journey opening Toy Story 2 is how it pays off with a hilarious ironic counterpoint in the third act. It even playfully satirizes Star Wars with a Luke-Vader son-father domestic idyll! Those who complain that adhering to 3-act structure is cookie-cutter scriptwriting forget that the rules are there to be broken or subverted, which Toy Story 2 does brilliantly.

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