36 | Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter Kemp Powers On Adaptation
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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What Excites You the Most About Your Play?
I wanted to show the wound, set up the wound that each of the men carried with them in. So I had to really, because I was also trying to restructure it so that it made sense from a cinematic standpoint. There's all these things that you don't have to do in theater that I think you have to do with a film to set it up and make it more understandable. The person that it's the most physically dangerous for is Malcolm. You know, although Cassius doesn't seem to care about it, they're the ones with the physical stakes for Jim and Sam. It's very psychological.
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