Screenwriting : The Structure of the film, Parasite by Karen "Kay" Ross

I don't believe Parasite actually breaks any rules. but is a perfect example of Shakespearean tragic structure.Using the Heroes Journey or Save The Cat to analyze a tragedy when they're clearly designed to structure comedy in the Greek sense I feel is an incorrect analysis.Freytags Pyramid is what is usually used to structure tragedies where your climax happens at the midpoint and you have falling action throughout the second half of the screenplay.The beauty and difficulty of Freytags Pyramid is that it is so bendable and twistable that it is easy to go too far with it.The beauty of it being the structure supports the plot rather than the plot following the structure.The only other writing system/structure I've found that works for tragedies is John Truby's Anatomy Of Story.Parasite from the opening scene has a tone of Dread,a hallmark of a tragedy.It has a strong main plot a strong underlying plot and strong subplots as good tragedies do.It has Shakespeare's invention of mass colateral damage to secondary characters.It even has a very strong Hot Item which along with McGuffins are heavily used in tragedies.Yes they have bent rules but they have broken no tragic rules that I can see.I think an analysis of Parasite against Greek/Skkespearean/Modern tragedy would have given a very different result.

I didn’t click on the link. But lets look at the so called rules I think it breaks.

Who is likeable in the story? I would say no one really. They are compelling. But all bad people.

The opening shot does not reflect the closing shot. Which is supposed to be a rule.

Where is the growth and change in the character. He goes from being part of a manipulative family to being the same person (though insane). He hasn’t learnt the error of his ways. He wants to make money, but the house so his Dad can get away with murder.

I love this film. You can shoehorn anything into a formula if you try hard enough.

I think it's bogus as zillions of other "arsty" films. Basically all comes to this: you write whatever the story you like, hustle your way into making it...and then let the hype do the rest....some make it, some don't...

Weeks ago I read about this Italian artist sold an invisible sculpture (thin air) for some 15-20K euros....now, you wander how he managed to do that? He actually sold the hype over it ;)

Gimme true blooded action/horror analysis any time over this pseudoramma...