We can stand outside and watch people do stuff.
A movie gives us the opportunity to not only watch people do stuff but to see how their actions affect them.
In undeveloped screenplays, there tends to be two groups:
1) A main character who does a lot of stuff but who we never see react to the failures of their attempts to reach a goal.
2) A main character who doesn't do much but who we see react, or over react to the circumstances they are in whether good or bad.
A main character needs to have a goal and they need to fail to get it. And then we need to see them react emotionally, wonder what went wrong, wonder how they'll ever reach that goal, then decide on the next step.
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