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#97 - Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings preludes are a little bit harder to do with those kind of montage narrative voice over. The one I noticed here was something I like to call need to know, need to know basis. You save the exposition until some character needs to know what it is. And when you then deny that there is power in the denial and then denied that information doubles our hunger as an audience,. Now we want to know about this mystery orb. So they ask Peter asks, Yondu asks, Rocket asks, Draskin asks, Professor McGuffin has questions for them. It creates this sort of sense of importance on their part.

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