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Premise, theme, controlling idea, subject selection, and logline for scripts — synthesized from Lajos Egri's premise-as-tyrant and dialectic, Robert McKee's controlling idea (value + cause) and idea/counter-idea, Neill Hicks's five premise questions, Lisa Cron's “third rail” (desire vs. misbelief, origin scene, and what-if question), Julian Hoxter's logline and theme–attitude rule, Blake Snyder's logline, genre, and title tests, and Lu Jun's Chinese craft chapters on strict subject selection, deep development, a fresh perspective, a strong dramatic core, and a surprising plot. Use when turning a vague idea into a premise, determining what a story is truly about, choosing a subject and angle, testing a logline, deriving the ending from the theme, or diagnosing a script that “has events but no story.”