The First 15 Minutes Project: The Archive

 So back before the Road Tests of the Ultimate Story Checklist, I had a series where I would go step by step through the first 15 minutes of a film or TV pilot and figure out how they got us on the side of the hero.  Many of these eventually got checklists, but many never did, so they can only be found here (How have I never done The French Connection or The Apartment?) The above graphic is from the fifth piece below where I went through the first four and noticed something: One shortcut to sympathy is to have your white character high-five a black person. 

• The First 15 Minutes Project #1: Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs
• The First 15 Minutes Project #2: The 40 Year Old Virgin
• The First 15 Minutes Project #3: Popeye Doyle in The French Connection
• The First 15 Minutes Project #4: Mickey Ward in The Fighter
• The First 15 Minutes Project #5: Shortcuts to Sympathy
• The First 15 Minutes Project #6: Rick Blaine in Casablanca
• The First 15 Minutes Project #6: The Little Tramp in Modern Times
• The First 15 Minutes Project #7: Dave in Breaking Away
• The First 15 Minutes Project #8: C.C. Baxter in The Apartment
• The First 15 Minutes Project #9: Jake Gittes in Chinatown
• The First 15 Minutes Project #10: Dave Chappellet in Downhill Racer
• The First 15 Minutes Project #11: Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley
• The First 15 Minutes Project #12: Richard Boyle in Salvador
• The First 15 Minutes Project: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The First 15 Minutes Project: Cady Heron in Mean Girls
• The First 15 Minutes Project: Peter Parker in Spider-Man
• The First 15 Minutes Project: Max Fischer in Rushmore
• The First 15 Minutes Project: Juno McGuff in Juno