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#95 - John Wick (2014)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Power of the Killer Speech

The idea is you have a character who has experienced the monster or experience whoever the intimidating character is being spoken about. It's a it's a speech that praises the power of the monster so that when we finally see the monster, we have this built in gravitas and fear. So like there's so many famous ones and I was gonna say Jaws and Terminator, right? Quentin Jaws, Kyle Reese and Terminator Dr. Loomis and Michael in Halloween. As I met him 15 years ago, I was told there was nothing left, no reason, no conscience, no understanding. And even the most rudimentary, rudimentary sense of good or evil right or wrong. The six year old

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