123 | Dustin Lance Black (Milk, Under the Banner of Heaven) On Nuanced Screenwriting and Avoiding Cliches
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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The Medium Poem of the Year Right?
A set of characters that I think can illuminate something. A history like is this about a thing that happened to someone or with some folks, or is this a situation. It's almost like it could be expressed in a medium poem. Not a tiny poem, but a nice chunk. Then it's probably a movie or a play. You want them to stay in their seat and not get up and go pee in the middle of it. That's metaphor of the year right there.
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