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Screenwriting 101: Mastering the Art of Story

Angus Fletcher writes: * In comedy and tragedy, the main characters are eventually forced by the action of the plot to conform to the big rules of their story world. But in heroic scripts, the opposite happens: The main characters … Continue reading

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Are We What We Watch?

Comments at Steve Sailer: * It’s amusing how 90% of mental health issues are rich girls following fads – social contagion. All the teen girls wanted to be depressed around the time of Prozac Nation. I read somewhere about a … Continue reading

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Mrs. America

I enjoy watching this show but its main character, Phyllis Schlafly, is the only character you are consistently manipulated to loathe. Comments at Steve Sailer: * Steve: Cate Blanchett is playing conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly who defeated the Equal Rights … Continue reading

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Richard Jewell – My Favorite Movie Of 2019

Steve Sailer wrote Dec. 18, 2019: Richard Jewell is director Clint Eastwood’s well-acted, solidly scripted biopic about the racial-profiling fiasco that undermined the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing investigation. The FBI monomaniacally targeted an innocent rent-a-cop for being a Frustrated White … Continue reading

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The Seven Basic Plots

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