Moral Premise: Harnessing Virtue and Vice for Box Office Success by Stanley D Williams

Author:Stanley D Williams [Williams, Stanley D]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1932907130
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Published: 2006-06-28T07:00:00+00:00

[Virtue] leads to [success], and

[Vice] leads to [defeat], but

[Unrelenting vice] leads to [destruction].

In the Bedroom is based on Andre Dubus’ novel The Killings. The movie is about how a husband (Dr. Matt Fowler, a family physician) and his wife (Ruth Fowler, a school teacher) refuse to correct their college-bound son Frank’s dangerous behavior when he takes up romantically (and sexually) with an older woman (Natalie Strout), who’s separated from her jealous and violence-prone husband (Richard Strout). In Act 1 Richard murders Frank in a jealous rage. When the Fowlers seek justice, they discover that Richard Strout has made bail, because of his dad’s money and influence as the town’s largest employer. In Act 2, the Fowlers also discover that Richard might get off easy by claiming that Frank’s death was an accident after they both struggled over a gun. The Fowler’s bitterness rages, and in Act 3 they conspire to kill Richard, and eventually carry out the murder with the help of a friend. At the story’s end it is obvious to Matt, and to the audience, that their crime was far from perfect. The end of the movie is filled with emptiness, silence, and mind-numbing dread, as both Matt and the audience come to realize that the Fowlers have become what they so hated and imagined in Richard. They will, in all likelihood, be caught, convicted, and punished for the premeditated murder of Richard Strout. Indeed the prognosis for their lives is far worse than the killings of their son, Frank, or of Richard Strout whose deaths came quickly.

Using the two negative lines of the Moral Premise from the previous page, the Moral Premise statement for In the Bedroom could be stated this way:

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