S5 Ep46: Ruben Östlund, filmmaker
In Writing with Hattie Crisell
Is There a Formula for Writing a Screenplay?
The Square is such an unusual film and it has so many little episodes contained within it that again could almost stand alone. Do you have in your mind on any level a sense of, I don't know, obviously if somebody buys a screenwriting book they will talk about the kind of arc of a feature film? But do you think on any level you've sort of absorbed that sense of what the shape of a story should be? And then to sit together with the audience then you realize ah here it's going to fast and here it’s going to slow, here I have to go out earlier or I have to maybe go in later in this scene and so on. Then I
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