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Episode 117: Up in the Air

Beyond the Screenplay

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Screenwriting Lesson - Ticking Clocks

The movie has three ticking clocks. It starts off by telling us there's a wedding. And it also creates the story threads of the entire thing, right? Like, he doesn't have a daye to the wedding. So that's like the second layer. And then this third layer is some, at some point, you're gong to hit your miles, and then what are you going to do now? Right? Everything you're doing is in service of getting these miles. Ah, i feel like with dromedies, ah, these things are like, i guess technically sub plots, but they're all so interwoven. I think it's just really worth studying

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