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šØ Inneresting #248 - Where Film Meets Fine Art
Paintings that inspire movie moments, paintings featured in movies, and movies about painting.
Chris Csont
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š Short Answer Sprint
For this week's rebroadcast, we highlight some evergreen questions from readers in 2007.
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š ā©ļø Inneresting #247 - You Were Supposed to be the Good Guys
From heel turns to sudden self-awareness, sometimes it's not easy to know who the baddies are.
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š» Inneresting #246 - Spiritual Successors
Not every movie or show gets a reunion reboot or legacy sequel. Sometimes we can feel the influence of the past, but with an additional twist. These are the spiritual successors. They may not always be obvious in what stories they owe a debt to, but you feel the connection.
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Rebroadcast: Dick Jokes for Classy Producers
Back in 2010, John answered a question about second guessing yourself and deciding what sample to send to a producer if you think your work doesn't match their taste.
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š Inneresting #245 - How Am I "Unlikeable?"
Likeability. The idea that there's some objective sense of whether or not this person is someone you could be friends with/grab a beer with/watch for 90 minutes on a screen without getting annoyed. It's not just a measurement of morality, because there are plenty
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Inneresting #244 - What? A Coincidence!?
We touched on coincidences in storytelling with this week's rebroadcast of John's blog on Spider-Man 3, so let's take a broader look at coincidences both in fiction and how people experience them in the real world. Lisa M.P. Munoz interviews Christian Rominger about
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The Perils of Coincidence
In 2007, John came back from a screening of Spider-Man 3 and used his reactions to point to the hurdles a writer can throw in their story's path when relying too heavily on coincidence.
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Why Most Scripts Never Become Movies
This weekās rebroadcast collects posts fromĀ 2006Ā andĀ 2012Ā to consider how selling a script isnāt a guarantee, and why writing a film that never gets made is still work worthy of compensation. Youāve said that āmost scripts donāt become movies, and a hundred things could
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Thinking About Story Structure
This weekās rebroadcast brings together a few posts about structure, and reasons to consider that thereās not only one way to plan out a story. How do you know when the story has good bones? Iām a 28-year old writer with a very old problem. I do
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How Nope Forces its Characters into Showdowns
If spoilers make you want to nope on out of hereā¦ Thatās fine. You should see Nope before you read this. āRight here, you are going to witness an absolute spectacle.ā The engine driving Jordan Peele's Nope is powered by people trying to exploit an unexplained organism
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3 Practical Ways Fury Road Binds Characters Together
When helping to build Mad Max: Fury Roadās character arcs for Max and Furiosa, screenwriter Nico Lathouris saw how three chases could bind the characters together: āThe first chase brings the Road Warrior [Max] and the Praetorian [Furiosa] together, the second chase manacles them together in mutual obligation, and