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#21 - Home Alone (1990)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The House That's Too Bad for Me to Watch

The first line of the whole movie is about this movie that's too bad for him to watch. Three minutes in, Kevin says, I don't know how to pack my suitcase. His family tells him he's completely helpless. Lays in competent. From a directing standpoint, all the things you're saying to are constructing the house out. The geography of the house is laid out in this whole opening so well, if you didn't do this, it wouldn't make sense later.

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