1. According to Murphy, what are the two major faults of the traditional screenwriting manuals in their treatment of independent cinema?
--They rely on formulas that are targeted to writers who are interested in writing screenplays that would be typical of the Hollywood norms and successful only in the mainstream standards.
--There are too many rules and direct formulas that make it difficult to teach writers to follow and learn the formulas and also tell them to break from the formulas to write an experimental screenplay.

2. How are Murphy's claims about act structures in independent films different than McKee's model or Thompson's model?
Bordwell claims that art cinema films "lack clear-cut traits, motives, and goals" of classical narration, but Murphy argues that "character subjectivity plays" a larger role "in art cinema and, as a result the ensuing narratives tend to be much more ambiguous and open-ended."

I know I always right "to be continued..." and sometimes don't get back to it, but this time I plan to go back and do a lot of the questions, especially this weeks questions!