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#48 - Die Hard (1988)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Good News Bad News Thing

"I tend to go through this good news bad news thing and there's a thing i've mentioned before of novel technique by a guy named swain," he says. "It's like good news and then it hits the bad news and then a sequel is a reaction to that okay and then and then making a decision to do something else for the next scene so it constantly goes in the zigzaggygood news bad news sort of they follow the same kind of idea." He adds: "The single best script writing advice you could ever give people yeah  in my opinion this good newsbad news thing just makes everything better instantly"

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