Dialogue Through Action Exercise

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Alex Rivera

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Transform dialogue-heavy scenes into visually-driven storytelling through action replacement.

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Rewrite this dialogue scene eliminating 75% of the spoken lines:

{{dialogue_scene}}

Rules:
- Keep only lines that absolutely cannot be shown through action
- Replace every cut line with specific physical behavior
- The emotional content must remain identical
- Subtext must become more visible through behavior

Provide:

1. ANALYSIS
- Which lines convey information that requires speech?
- Which lines convey emotion that can be shown?
- Which lines exist only to fill space?

2. ACTION TRANSLATIONS
- For each cut line, the behavior that replaces it

3. REWRITTEN SCENE
- Full screenplay format with new action/dialogue balance

4. COMPARISON
- Original line count vs. new line count
- What changed emotionally?
- What became clearer or more ambiguous?

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Creative

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dialogue reductionvisual writingscene improvement

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