A Man Called Otto: Character Building
Write Your Screenplay Podcast
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How to Write for Tom Hanks
"It's a movie about justice and we want to feel like it's unjust, but how the hell do they know," he says. "If you don't have Tom Hanks attached, you cannot get away with that." The writers are doing a piece of the meditative writing, but mostly they're doing a lot of puppeting, right? Making characters do things that are not true to themselves in order to force the structure to happen,. And when that happens, we get disconnected.
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