I Don't Know How to Solve a Problem

Meg Urry: Having a want and using that wants to overcome a problem are two very distinct things. In almost every movie you're going to find this that if you took out that problem that the goal satisfies, it becomes aimless incident. For example, E.T. started as a story about the experience of a child whose father lives in a different state than his kids. It's probably that synthesis we were talking about of like the emotional narrative and the mechanics of the plot which has all these layers.