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turned down. A series of slices of life, a series of chance meetings and encounters bound together by no more than their sequence in time, is, after all, no more than a group of episodes. The theme as basic idea, uniting in itself the meaning of all the events depicted — that is what was lacking. Consequently the separate characters were without significance, the actions of the he/ro and the people round him as chaotic and adventitious as the movements of pedestrians on a street, passing by before a window.
But the same author went through his scenario, altering it in accordance with the remarks made to him. He carefully reconstructed the line of the hero, guided by a clearly formulated theme. As basis he set the following idea : " It is not sufficient to be revolutionarily inclined ; to be of service to the cause one must possess a properly organised consciousness of reality." The merely blustering workman of the opening was changed to a reckless anarchist,3 his enemies thus stood in a clear and definite front, his contacts with them and with his future friends assumed clear purpose and clear meaning, a whole series of superfluous complications fell away, and the modified scenario was transformed to a rounded and convincing whole. The idea defined above can be termed that theme the clear formulation of which inevitably organises the entire work and results in a clearly effective creation. Note as rule : formulate the theme clearly and exactly — otherwise the work will not acquire that essential meaning and unity