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146 | Screenwriting/Storytelling Archetypes: Using and Subverting Them (ft. Jessica Bendinger)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Industrial Complex and the Power of Cinema

Hollywood is not an efficient market. I think that you have to go in with open eyes and know that not everybody is here for the same reasons. Learn to healthy conflict navigation. That's my feature. Like me, what is it? It's sexy, but doesn't know it. Oh, how many times has that been written? You're pandering to your reader. We all do it occasionally because again, screenplays are articles of emotional manipulation. Um, so the success of that pandering is what makes a good or bad movie. But yeah, stuff is overused. Absolutely.

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