A Man Called Otto: Character Building
Write Your Screenplay Podcast
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The Importance of Honoring the Want and the Need
The stakes in this opening scene, if we really look at it from a tangible perspective is 33 cents. And the need for justice that auto is reacting to as he fights for 33 cents is not about 33 cents. The injustice of the rope has been has been mistaken for the injustice of his wife's death. We don't know exactly what it is yet, but we know something terrible happened to this character.
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