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Writing Excuses 7.25: Writing Capers

Writing Excuses

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Ocean's Eleven: A Story of Tension and Conflict

A lot of these are going to be really character driven up until the snappy plot at the end. And I think that just generally speaking, if you want to establish a plot point, having two characters talk about it in agreement until they reach whatever decision is made isn't very interesting. You know, something that's also occurred to me that Ocean's Eleven does, and some other films as well,. like A-Team's not a film, but is that they use jargon to make it.

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