
#50 - Back to the Future (1985)
Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast
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The Pros and Cons of Georgia's Arc
The movie is an excellent teaching example of showing visualizing the growth, the spurts and the regression. The reason that something feels like a check the story box instead of an earned moment is because we don't get the in between. And so I just wanted to say that it's got, it's, those are eight moments of growing pains. Even if you only had one of those moments, it wouldn't feel like between him and punching Biff or right between the beginning and him punching Biff,. It wouldn't have the emotional resonance that it does.
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