
#48 - Die Hard (1988)
Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast
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Rooting Influencer Techniques
There are 30 moments where we learn something about john that makes us empathize with him it makes us like deepen our investment and i'll give you a few for example. He makes a joke about being a cop so that shows us he's funny also buries the exposition with a joke james. The character is loving towards his family so that's just five of them there's 30 of those in the first 20 minutes so and that's why it works and that's why you don't need the action It's sort of like character-driven sitcoms, James says.
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