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Writing A Great Movie: Key Tools For Successful Screenwriting - Jeff Kitchen

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Tom Cruise and the Firm

Tom Cruise is in this high paying law firm and he finds out it's actually owned by the mafia. He gets put in a good strong dilemma by Ed Harris, an aggressive FBI agent who says you have to bring us proof that they are involved in a criminal enterprise or we are going to ruin your life. And so what he does, he does not do what the FBI demands of him, but he does not go down with this criminal law firm either. So he skated between these two equally unacceptable alternatives by coming up with a radical third alternative that result that's that conclusively resolved his dilemmas.

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