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#21 - Home Alone (1990)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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How to Have a Fun and Games Montage

It's not just the montage. If you're going to have the montage, you need to have additional fun and games. Like this whole section could have just been a quick montage. That was five minutes. But it can also be a bunch of scenes. It is a montage. And then it's broken by Harry Marv being outside, which is also a reveal and a payoff. At the same time that Harry was not a cop and he said their plan in the van while they're staring at the houses. Exactly. The pinch point.

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