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SCRIPT SECRETS: ‘Barbarian’ – Change Up!

How do you keep your screenplay unpredictable? We look at 2022’s ‘Barbarian’ for the answers… and a technique I call the “Change Up!” – a major plot twist that completely changes everything in the story.

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