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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Jeff Graham: When we're taught screenwriting, what is the main character's problem? And then how are they going to solve it? But widening it out with the worldview is so much more powerful, right? You have to create this connection. Tootsie is actually really an example of that because you're starting off and you're saying the hero is both asleep in the internal stakes of the story, but he's thirsty in the external stakes in story.

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