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Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off stares at the painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by George Seurat.

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🎨 Inneresting #248 - Where Film Meets Fine Art

Paintings that inspire movie moments, paintings featured in movies, and movies about painting.

Ben Affleck drops several coffees and looks at the camera with pure shame

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The Production Assistant's Guide to the Lunch Run

On Scriptnotes, John and Craig asked our listeners for their advice on the one ubiquitous and foundational experience of every early job in the entertainment industry: the lunch run. And like the good PA’s you are (or used to be), wow did you all deliver. We were flooded with

Image from the film poster of Geostorm, with tornadoes and a wave destroying skyscrapers while Gerard Butler holds a kid?

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🏃 Short Answer Sprint

For this week's rebroadcast, we highlight some evergreen questions from readers in 2007.

Cropped comic panel of Captain America saying "Hail Hydra." It was a big deal because, ya' know, it's Captain America revealing he was a double agent.

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👠↩️ 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.

The Pitt: In an exam room, Dr. Robby crosses his arms and makes that face where you know Dad's not mad, he's disappointed, and that's worse.

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👻 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.

Barton Fink: Hotel room. Wallpaper peeling. Charlie Meadows holds Barton Fink by the arms, a look of desperation on his face.

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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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💅 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

Mulder and Scully from The X-Files sitting next to each other on a bench. Mulder is saying something to her, and Scully is staring into the middle distance with a skeptical squint.

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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

From Spider-Man 3, Peter Parker hangs upside down over a stage for a Spider-Man rally and lets Gwen Stacy kiss him after the crowd eggs them on.

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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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Which Screenplay Should I Write?

In 2009, John answered a question about how to choose between the different stories competing for your attention, and gave an example of one time he didn’t need to choose just one. I know you have addressed this type of question to a certain extent, but I was left

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How to Introduce a Character in a Screenplay

Just how early can you tell a script isn’t going to work? To me, it’s as the first few characters are introduced. If character introductions are not done artfully, the odds of anything else in the script being great are slim. That’s James Cameron’s terrific script

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Why Most Scripts Never Become Movies

This week’s rebroadcast collects posts from 2006 and 2012 to consider how selling a script isn’t a guarantee, and why writing a film that never gets made is still work worthy of compensation. You’ve said that “most scripts don’t become movies, and a hundred things could