
141 | Television Writing Foundations w/ Javier Grillo-Marxauch
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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The Importance of Economy and Efficiency in Writing
A lot of emerging writers hear that and they think sterile like there's no personality or art that's allowed in our writing. I write the script called Cat Lady which was John Wick with a Cat Lady sort of a parody of kind of a parody of the United States and how we view other countries because all the villains were about as grotesquely stereotypical as I could make them but in a funny way. Lawrence Kasan's script for Raiders Lost Ark is big hunks of paragraphs of text and then dialogue he breaks every thing that I think is good, especially when it comes out to quote unquote. The characters on this show are based on somebody who spent a lot of his life translating from
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