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#28 - The Matrix (1999)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Chalsky's Guide to Writing a Movie

"It is not a shot list with some dialogue. Not at all," he said. "We can't remove ourselves from the visual." The Wachowski's script took eight pages to describe and was so over directed on the page that it would have been more than 250 if they'd written it this way, according to actor-filmmaker Andrew Keen.

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