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Thanks, everyone, alerting me to those Sony Classic scripts which have gone away. As always, best to download scripts ASAP to avoid them disappearing.
Steven, your thoughts echo mine (or mine yours!) very much. For example this: I think the reason your character approach (inside-to-out) works better than the paradigmatic approach is that paradigms impose a structure…
I just now saw this thread of responses and agree with the other suggestions. Thanks for the feedback, everyone!
Real World Screenwriting: Know Movies You hear this a lot in script meetings: “It’s like that scene in…”
