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141 | Television Writing Foundations w/ Javier Grillo-Marxauch

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Impossible Task Without Neo

I teach the Indiana Jones truck chase there and all the stuff about the truck chase but what is the beginning middle and end of of your scene. It's about how are these characters going to do this impossible task without Neo you know and it's about their cleverness and all of that. I have no idea how they will ever or he or she will ever ever because a lot of times emerging writers keep that impossibility a little too close  it's a little too possible the more impossible the goal the more I'm leaning in with expectation right?

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