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365: A Year Of Screenwriting Tips - Travis Seppala

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The Two Big Pitfalls of a Sequel

I would say that going from an original movie to the sequel the problem, well I feel like because you need to follow it up with something that's a little bit bigger. The two big pitfalls of a sequel is either A, it goes too far where it's like a huge leaps and bounds beyond what the first movie was and how did they get there from here. Like that's such a huge jump or they don't have even as big of stakes where they kind of like pull it back a little bit too much. Sure, I'll get one with Sicario either of them so I have no opinion on that movie whatsoever. Oh that's a cool title.

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