Three Act Structure : Wayne's World

One of my all time favorite movies is Wayne's World, which is a movie based off of an SNL skit. In the movie, Wayne and his friend Garth are hosts on a public access show which gets picked up by some corporate men. Wayne and Garth think they are going to be rich, but the company is really just exploiting them. Along with this, Wayne must battle the corporate head, Benjamin, for the love of his life, Cassandra. In the end, Wayne gets the girl and all live happily ever after.

In the First Act, we meet Wayne and his best friend Garth on the set of their TV show "Wayne's World". During the course of the first act, we are introduced to all of the characters and what their roles are. Also, Benjamin is in a meeting with an arcade owner, Noah Vanderhoff, and sells the idea of buying Wayne's World and sponsoring it with the arcade. Benjamin then meets with Wayne and Garth and has them sign a contract and then gives Wayne and Garth two cashiers checks. Wayne and Garth are overly joyed and we then see this as a mini climax and we proceed on to act two.

Through the course of act two, Wayne and Garth began to grow suspicious of Benjamin, but are too interested in other things to care. Wayne furthers his relationship with Cassandra and enjoys all the money he is getting from the show now. This is really all part of Benjamin's plot to take over Wayne's World. He even sends Wayne and Garth to Alice Cooper's concert with backstage passes to even further butter up Wayne and Garth. However, come time for the show to be recorded, Wayne and Garth realize what has happened and Wayne flips out and publicly humiliates the sponsor and is fired from the show. After this, Wayne suspects Cassandra of sleeping with Benjamin to get her music career going and she is so angry that she dumps him. Also, Wayne and Garth get into a fight and are no longer on speaking terms. This is a rather large mini climax since so much has happened in the last fifteen minutes of act two. This does however set up a great third act of the movie.

(Here is the clip of Wayne and Garth splitting up from each other after a fight)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-hc79-tAiU


In act three, the resolution takes place, where Wayne and Garth make up with each other and plot how to win Cassandra back, get Benjamin out of the picture, and get Cassandra a music record deal. The plot they come up with is nearly impossible, but that's the humor of it. Basically, Wayne and his gang break into a TV station and steal all of the equipment they need to broadcast Cassandra doing a live performance for a record producer. Wayne goes to Cassandra and steals her from Benjamin and brings her to the set to play a song.

And in the end, the record producer goes to the set where Cassandra is playing and gives her a record deal. Benjamin also loses everything and everyone lives happily ever after.