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#103 - Barbie (2023)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Double Bump Catalyst

The why now comes from a David Mamet memo to his show on the unit. Why does this scene have to happen here in this setting specifically? And answering those two questions gives the scene immediate urgency, like it just, it takes care of itself. A double bump catalyst is when it kind of requires two catalysts to random events to things that happen.

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