Episode 156: Magnolia
Beyond the Screenplay
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The Importance of Choices in Movies
There are scenes in this movie that feel like Tarantino to me, you know, just how Tarantino can just do like, beginning of the man's fight. Tricia, what's your lesson? Yeah, I was thinking this time about having characters make choices that they can't take back. That's just like basic screenwriting. Like scenes should end where something has changed. And ideally, it's a thing that could never revert to the way that it was,. So it seems really basic, but the choices that people make in this are all like really big irreversible choices from scene to scene.
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