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Episode 40: Mackendrick's Rules, Part 1

Secrets of Story Podcast

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The Importance of Dialogue in Incidental Business

Without dialogue there's no way you'd understand what's going on in every day we're counting on their ability for people to understand it without the dialogue. "I think there's this really poisonous concept of the McGuffin where you know oh Hitchcock was the greatest film America for all time and he talked about how important it was to have McGuffins" The director speaks the incidental business - unspoken suggestions for behavior can prevent quote theatrical comedy.

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