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All Quiet on the Western Front Q&A - Lesley Paterson - Ian Stokell

The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith

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Writing a Screenplay Is a Critical Thing for Screenwriters

I'm not sure that a lessening of the armistice would have averted World War II either to be brutally honest but getting to listen is really hard on the page just because I know we're short on time. We had to find the beats of that scene that could allow room for the emotionality and so you know a couple of the aspects of it the putting the dirt in the mouth I don't believe that was in the book finding the pictures when that happened how that happened they were not explicitly written out in the book. It's everything metaphorically of Germany trying to relive glory days and it working out bad.

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