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57 | Million Dollar Ideas w/ Matt Lieberman

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How to Write a Family Story With Two Parents and Two Kids?

The best versions of these movies like I don't know, credible Mitchell versus machines. Yes, everybody has an arc, but like it really is about usually the best ones for me are focus on a relationship between two of the characters in the family and then the other two fill it out. So you have to find out who's your protagonist in the family. And also giving those other two characters, whether it's like the two kids are given those ad. Giving them all their due.

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