
108 | The Importance of Flexibility as a Writer/Director w/ Matthew Gentile
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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Is Your Film Worth Making?
American is a film about family, an exploration of the Arkseid American Dream. Early drafts in the script kind of stayed just with Jason. It's like you're looking at the real different lenses and angles that by the end of the movie, whether you love them or hate them,. You've come away with a 360 degree view of who he was and what he meant. "Without that, I don't think it's a film worth making first," says director Matthew Broderick.
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