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SPECS & THE CITY: Character Introductions and 'Silence of the Lambs' by Brad Johnson | Script Magazine #scriptchat
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SPECS & THE CITY: Character Introductions and 'Silence of the Lambs'

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SPECS & THE CITY: Deus Ex Machina and 'Lord of the Rings'

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SPECS & THE CITY: Unreliable Narrator and 'Fight Club'

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SPECS & THE CITY: The Meet Cute and 'Bridget Jones’s Diary'

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SPECS & THE CITY: The Trickster Archetype and 'Beetlejuice'

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SPECS & THE CITY: Monologues and 'Jaws'

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SPECS & THE CITY: The Mentor Archetype and 'Star Wars'

Severus Snape in Harry Potter
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SPECS & THE CITY: The Shapeshifter Archetype and ‘Harry Potter'

'Children of Men'
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Specs & The City: Opening Scenes of Movies & Children of Men

The Shadow Archetype, Mal
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Specs & The City: The Shadow Archetype and 'Inception'

Archetypes
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Specs & The City: The Threshold Guardian Archetype and 'The Princess Bride'

Archetypes - The Hearld
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Specs & The City: Archetypes - The Herald and Fellowship of the Ring

Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner
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Specs & The City: Death Scenes and 'Blade Runner'

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Specs & The City: Story Tone and 'Batman'

supporting characters
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Specs & The City: Supporting Characters and 'Glengarry Glen Ross'

The Fugitive w/ Harrison Ford
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Specs & The City: Raising The Stakes In Your Script and 'The Fugitive'

Romancing the Ston
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Specs & The City: Mixing Genres and 'Romancing the Stone' (and 'Cowboys and Aliens')

And just like that, Poof, he was gone.
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Specs & The City: Voice-Over and 'The Usual Suspects'

'Inside Llewyn Davis'
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Specs & The City: Top 10 Films of 2013

Pat attention... this WILL be on the test
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SPECS & THE CITY: The Power of Character Names

Twitter, I love you.
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Specs & The City: 5 Things Screenwriters Can Be Thankful For

The Avengers (2012)
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Specs & The City: Repetition of Exposition and 'The Avengers'

Yep. It's this scene.
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Specs & The City: Juxtaposition and 'The Godfather'

Children of Men
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Specs & The City: Writing Tone and 'Children of Men'

Gravity
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Specs and The City: 5 Screenwriting Lessons from 'Gravity'

Let's build something great!
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Specs & The City: How to Write a Screenplay - Building Your Script Like a House

Breaking Bad
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Specs & The City: 5 Lessons For Screenwriters From 'Breaking Bad'

A long and winding road...
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Specs & The City: One Year Later

Seriously. Follow @MysteryExec
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Specs & The City: Female Characters and... Pretty Much Every Movie Ever

Same...but different
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Specs & The City: Movie Cliches and 'Crazy, Stupid, Love'

The dreaded 'we see'
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Specs & The City: "We see..." and 'Heat' & 'The Breakfast Club'

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Specs & The City: Writing Scenes - In Late / Out Early and 'The Dark Knight'

War of the Worlds
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Specs & The City: Subtext and 'War of the Worlds'

Die Hard
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Specs & The City: Subplots and 'Die Hard'

Bruce Willis in Die Hard
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Specs & The City: Action Scenes and 'Die Hard'

Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Specs & The City: Establishing Characters and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

Falling with style
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Specs & The City: Sequences and Toy Story, Part 5

Sid & Buzz in Toy Story
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Specs & The City: Sequences and 'Toy Story' (Part 4)

Double prize? Cool!
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Specs & The City: Sequences and 'Toy Story' Part 3

Buzz versus Woody: the dramatic heart of Toy Story
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Specs & The City: Sequences and 'Toy Story' Part 2

Buzz versus Woody: the dramatic heart of Toy Story
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Specs & The City: Sequences and 'Toy Story' Part 1

When Harry Met Sally
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Specs & The City: The Meet Cute and 'When Harry Met Sally'

Shane Black has a little movie you may have heard of.
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Specs & The City: Writing Character Descriptions and 'Last Action Hero"

Zach Braff in GARDEN STATE.
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Specs & The City: Character Arcs (or the lack thereof) and 'The Fugitive'

Happy endings make me feel like this!
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Specs & The City: Downbeat Film Endings and 'The Road'

inciting-incident
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Specs & The City: Inciting Incidents and 'Back To The Future'

Basil Exposition
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Specs & The City: Writing Exposition and 'Little Miss Sunshine'

Because I'm good enough...
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Specs & The City: Mixing Genres and 'Shaun of the Dead'

Unlimited potential
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Specs & The City: Babies and 'Your Script'

Not an actual picture of Chekov.
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Specs & The City: Plot Setup, Payoff, and 'Jaws'