Alternative Theme - Screenwriting

In a pure a story every scene to scene is Action - Reaction.

All of the Action scenes will have a Theme.
All of the Reaction scenes will have another Theme.

Let's say the action scenes are about attempting to get a bag of cash.
That's the theme - "to get a bag of cash" Every action scene will be about this.

Then let's say all of the reaction scenes are about attempting to understand why your character wants that specific bag of cash, why another character wants it, what happens if your character doesn't get it, so on and so for.

That's the theme - "Why this bag of cash."  Every reaction scene will be about this.

By the end of the story you may be able to distill both themes down.

The action theme will probably be MONEY.  The reaction theme could be honor, love, respect, freedom...depending on what you uncovered as you had characters exploring why they want that bag of cash and why others want it.

Once you decide what you think the reaction theme is, you can phrase it like this:
Money leads to Respect.
Money leads to Freedom
Money leads to honor.

Note: the above arguments may turn out to be false by the end of the story.  Money leads to Respect may be the belief your main character has at the start of the story but once they get the bag of cash...maybe they still aren't getting respect.