49 | Michael Arndt's Act 1 Masterclass
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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The Graduate Is a Mirror in a Way
Jeff Yang: Do you view Little Miss Sunshine as an ensemble film? Or do you feel like there is really a protagonist in that film that's driving everything? And when you think about ensemble films, what are some of the hallmarks of what make those movies really work and succeed? Michael O'Neill: I'm going to go to another one of my standby Swiss was the graduate. He does such a great job of world building because you're introducing Ben Braddock which is kind of a frankly kind of adult passive guylike in the first act of the story.
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