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#50 - Back to the Future (1985)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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How to Visualize a Deadline

"If you do not visualize the countdown, we feel no urgency," he says. "We don't have any idea how much time is left for the character to achieve their goal." The stakes are clear with a deadline that's been defined months from the beginning of the movie. In this one, we're getting like various visualizations of the countdown, like maybe like one every couple minutes.

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