Sunday 11 September 2011

Homer's Night Out - Three Act Structure

ONE SENTENCE SUMMARY
Homer was caught by Bart while dancing with a mysterious belly dancer in an office party and it causes Marge to freak out and kick him out of the house, so that he will realize his mistakes.


THREE ACT STRUCTURE


ACT 1


SETUP
1) Homer has a party to attend to.
2) Bart gets a new spy camera.


CONFLICTS (FIRST HALF)
1) Homer actually goes into an all-guys party and there are some belly dancers there as well.
2) Bart develops a hobby of taking random pictures with his new spy camera.
3) Homer dances with a belly dancer in the party.
4) Bart found out about Homer's dance and happen to take a quick picture of him with his new camera.


DRAMATIC CONTEXT (FIRST HALF)
1) Bart gave the picture to Milhouse and it spreads around the whole town without him realizing it.
2) Everyone laughs at Homer without himself realizing what actually happened around him.
3) This embarrasses the family.


UP THE STAKES (FIRST HALF)
Marge sees the picture and freaks out, she was yelling and crying because of Homer's careless mistake.


TURNING POINT (FIRST HALF)
1) How could Homer explain about the picture to Marge?
2) How could he make up with his wife?
3) Bart starts to realize that there's a problem brewing up between his parents.


SCENE BREAKDOWN


SC. 1 : INT. HOMER'S BATHROOM. DAY
- Homer and Marge gets ready for the day.
- Marge brushes teeth.
- Homer weighs himself, he weighs 239 pounds.
- Homer feels that he needs to do exercise to lose weight.
SC. 2 : INT. BART'S ROOM. DAY
- Bart cuts out a comic panel that he found interesting.
SC. 3 : INT. HOMER'S BATHROOM. DAY
- Homer weighs himself again after gargling.
- The weight is still 239 pounds.
- Homer tells Marge about the party he's going to have with his colleagues.
SC. 4 : INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
- Bart and Lisa are watching television.
- The mail-woman delivers a package of spy camera for Bart. (NEAR THE DOOR)
SC. 5 : INT. HOUSE. DAY
- Bath spies everyone in the house -> Homer, Marge
SC. 6 : INT. DINING ROOM. NIGHT
- Marge tells about Homer's party to the kids.
- They decided to dine out.
SC. 7 : INT. PARTY ROOM. NIGHT
- Homer is at the party, eating and drinking with his colleagues.
SC. 8 : INT. RESTAURANT. NIGHT
- Marge and the kids eat together.
- Bart orders something and then he went to the toilet.
- He heard noises coming out from the party room.
SC. 9 : INT. PARTY ROOM. NIGHT
- Homer dances with a belly dancer, Princess Kashmir.
SC. 10 : EXT. PARTY  ROOM. NIGHT
- Bart came out from the toilet and peeks into the party room.
- Bart took a picture of Homer and the belly dancer.
SC. 11 : INT. SCHOOL DARK ROOM. DAY
- Bart joins a photography club.
- He processed the photo from last night (Homer and dancer).
- Milhouse asks for the picture and Bart gave it to him as long as he won't spread it.
SC. 12 : INT. LIBRARY. DAY
- Milhouse spreads the picture to his friends. They are all photocopying it.
- The picture spreads to everyone in town (in offices and school).
SC. 13 : INT. YOGA STUDIO. DAY
- Marge saw the picture in the notice board. She gets pissed off.
SC. 14: INT. DONUT SHOP. DAY
- Everyone notices Homer because of the picture, but he doesn't have any idea himself.


ACT 2


CONFRONTATION
1) Homer gets thrown out by Marge because she found out about the picture in yoga class.
2) Bart faces a family problem in which his parents might split anytime.



CONFLICTS (SECOND HALF)
1) Homer tried to apologize to Marge.
2) Marge asks Homer to find the dancer and take Bart together, to watch him apologize to her.
3) Homer found the club where the dancer performs, and wreaks havoc in the show.

DRAMATIC CONTEXT (SECOND HALF)
1) Homer gets kicked out from the house, and he was very sad and depressed.
2) Marge had a hard time to truly forgive Homer.

UP THE STAKES / CLIMAX (SECOND HALF)
Will Marge forgive Homer after seeing him dancing with the girls and wreak havoc on stage?

TURNING POINT (SECOND HALF)
1) Will Homer be able to resolve this problem?
2) Marge makes Homer to teach something to Bart.

SCENE BREAKDOWN

SC. 15: EXT. SIMPSONS HOUSE. NIGHT
- Marge shows picture to Homer and gets mad at him.
- Marge and Homer had a big argument.
- Homer gets kicked out by Marge.
SC. 16 : INT. BAR. NIGHT
- Homer confides to everyone about his problem.
- Barney asks him to stay at his place for a while.
SC. 17: INT. BARNEY'S TRAILER. NIGHT
- Homer was very sad and he won't even go to a party with Barney.
SC. 18: INT. SIMPSONS HOUSE. NIGHT
- Kids are asking about Homer to Marge. They are worried.
SC. 19: INT. FACTORY. DAY
- Manager scolds Homer for the picture, but at the end wants an advice from him of how to get a picture with that kind of dancer.
SC. 20: INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
- Homer meets children and looks for Marge.
SC. 21: INT. KITCHEN. DAY
- Homer apologizes to Marge.
- Marge asks Homer to apologize to the dancer and bring Bart along with him so that Bart can learn to respect women as well since Bart looks up to Homer so much.
SC. 22: INT. CLUB DRESSING ROOM. NIGHT
- Homer finally found the dancer and apologizes.
- He carelessly clings on the dancer's prop cage and he messed up the show.
SC. 23: INT. STAGE. NIGHT
- Homer falls on the stage.
- He gets in the way of the show.
- Frankly, people recognized him and the MC involved him into the show, dancing with all the girls. 

ACT 3

RESOLUTION
1) Homer apologizes in front of the whole crowd, and he finally reconcile with Marge.
2) Bart sees his parents make up, and finally they are happy again.

SCENE BREAKDOWN

SC. 24: INT. STAGE. NIGHT
- Homer realized that he's not there to dance. He wants to apologize.
- Homer apologized to Marge and all the women on stage in front of everyone.
- The men in the crowd starts to be touched and agrees with him.
- Marge and Homer hugged on stage, and they reconciled.
- Bart sees his parents make up and they are happy once more.












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