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#35 - Toy Story 4 (2019)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Importance of a Clear Goal in a Story

An amateur script that lacks urgency is characters are expressing urgency and there's nothing in the story to motivate that urgency. So so usually when you don't add something for you on, yeah, dude, not just the RV, the audience doesn't even really understand why he even needs it because we don't really want him to go back. He doesn't even need his voice box anymore. That's what I'm talking about. The voice box only serves the humans. Right. It doesn't serve him. And then the next one is the voice box. But the problem is he never expresses vocally to the audience his fear of losing the voicebox. Maybe that should have been the opening

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