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27 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Hmm. As a kid?

DUNE.

I don’t think critics liked it, but it blew my mind out of my ears as a kid. I was kinda raised by HBO (big surprise) and it was always on, or felt that way, but I loved it.

Had the soundtrack on vinyl. Toto!
I saw the movie first so the concept of a box that puts makes you experience excruciating pain, while you have to use mental discipline to endure the pain or a future-witch will poison you with a metal finger blade.

Like what?!
I’m like barely double-digits years old and they hit me with folding space and traveling without moving?!

I watched Fraggle Rock that morning and HBO is like: astrophysics and hallucinogenic spice that send you to the astral plane!

Then I’m supposed to play with GI JOES?!
No wonder I’m out of my damn mind.

David Lynch and Frank Herbert never gave my brain a chance.
*delete the above “puts”

See DUNE? I’m still shook!!

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28 Feb
Just finished a conversation with the director of a feature I'm producing, and here's a perspective from it that I've shared before. It might be useful for your genre #writing so I'll share it again for those that might have missed my earlier thread. It returns often in my work.
Often the problem of genre writing, especially in film, is that the stories are DEPENDENT on the genre elements for any dramatic impetus or conflict.

Great genre movies are dramas INTERRUPTED by genre elements, around the first act break. I'll explain.
DIE HARD is a drama about a marriage suffering from the imbalance of success for each partner and the cultural differences in relocation. John could just be in a drama about changing himself to fix his marriage -- but then Hans shows up and we're in an action film.
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8 Jan
Going to be measured about this.

One of the key aspects of a Trump supporter is the dismissal (and ridicule?) of anyone who didn’t vote for Trump. Empathy is not an aspect of Trumpism. Trumpism scoffs at empathy.

And now they ask for it.
To be clear, philosophically, I’m on the side of reconciliation — to a point. It’s just incredibly difficult to be the shepherd to people that would set you on fire and throw you off a cliff if they could. The way she feels entitled to empathy she and her flock don’t have?

Phew
Close your eyes and imagine what these people would be like had Trump won. Imagine how much consideration they would have for people scared of him. Imagine what they would be saying on twitter. In person. At podiums. From their media desks.

Maybe don't do that, LOL.
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6 Jan
Forgive me venting today. I’d rather be talking about synthwave, books and scripts I’m writing, things I’m directing but we’re at an inflection point in this country. We are fragile. This is where our attention needs to be. We need voices speaking up. We can’t normalize this.
I hear the woman who was shot has died. She died because the GOP found it politically expedient to empower a narcissistic sociopath as he tried to invalidate his election loss.

She died for nothing. For lies. For his ego. She’s never coming home.

This. Is. A. Cult.
Trump encouraged this DIRECTLY, despite whatever video he released today. His repeated legal failures and his lies about the election being stolen. The GOP coddled him then supported him.

Someone is dead because of it. Because people wanted to run in 2024 on this rage.
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30 Oct 20
Gonna talk "pitching story" for a moment, because that's how I get most of my screenwriting work and it's hard to find practical information about the art of it online and in books. This is just my experience and approach, but in the age of zoom, some of this may be helpful...
My primary goal when I pitch is TO ENGAGE THE AUDIENCE EMOTIONALLY. Yes, I'm telling the story, but for me storytelling is a vehicle that delivers emotion to an audience. I structure my pitch around emotion.

I learned this from my TV boss, Greg Walker.

How do I do it?
Two things I make sure I have in my pitch.

1. An early moment, usually in the first 30-60 seconds of speaking that creates a VIVID, EMOTIONALLY PROVOCATIVE IMAGE in the mind of the listener. We're pitching movies and TV. Those are VISUAL MEDIUMS. I drop that image early.
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30 Oct 20
I haven't lost friends, but my worldview and the worldview of a Trump supporter (from what I can tell) are so vastly different, that it would be difficult for them to understand anything about what I believe, I'd imagine. So unlikely we'd be friends in the first place.
I have some people I like and I would consider "friends" in the sense that we enjoy each other's company -- that support Trump, but they're not CLOSE friends, you know? Like our friendship has a context, usually around art or music or something. None I confide in, or anything.
Growing up in Missouri, I do have some close friends that are GOP, but they're not Trump supporters. That's a distinction with a difference, I think.
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7 Sep 20
I’m about to start writing, but I wanted to share a bit about story structure, beyond just the three or five act structure — how you can find structure in other places and BLEND them into your three or five act build.

So let’s get it on... #writingtips
So we all know 3 act structure. I work in a 5 act structure but that’s essentially the same, just broken down a bit further. That’s a common (and necessary?) approach to story structure for your overall work. There’s also...
...the concept of making sure EACH SCENE has its own three or five act structure. Rising conflict. A midpoint. Peak conflict/darkest moment and some kind of resolution (but minor resolution because it’s part of the whole). So there’s that bit, but also...
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