SCRIPTWRITING MASTERCLASS: Don’t Write Another Page Until You Watch This

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Welcome to Pick a Topic. Tonight's topic


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is how to write a masterful script.


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Whether it's a TV show script, a full


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teleplay, feature, screenplay, TV show,


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sitcom script, you will master with the


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easy steps I have laid out. I'll tell


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you how to flesh out a story, how to go


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from beginning to end. We'll take care


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all that. I guarantee you, you will


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significantly improve your ability to


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write a script. You will just be so


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happy with your script writing ability.


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Okay. Now, also, I'm going to give away


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a $10 million script idea tonight.


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You're not going to believe it, but I'm


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just going to give it away. A $10


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million idea. Go ahead and use it. You


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have my blessing. You have my permission


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and full consent with all my heart. Now,


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it's all in the script. when you're


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watching and you're like, "Fuck, that


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has my favorite actor in that movie and


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I couldn't even keep my eyes open or I


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laughed when I shouldn't have laughed or


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why that's your favorite actor. You love


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that actor and every movie you love."


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Because the story was bad. The story


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line, the plot was bad. It's all in the


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script. That's where it starts from. If


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you have a house, a beautiful mansion,


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and it's built on mushy concrete, the


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concrete, the foundation for the house


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is [ __ ] based on some like a really bad


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concrete mix. It's going to, you know,


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over a short time it's going to just


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mess up the house and the house is just


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going to fall into it. Then it's no


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good, right? You need to have a


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concrete, solid concrete and that's your


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story. It's the backbone of everything.


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It's all in the script. A screenplay is


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a fulllength feature. One page I'm so


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excited I can I can't even like speak


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right. One page of script is one minute


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on the screen on the big screen. So one


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one page I'm so excited. One page is one


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minute on screen. Now, in a sitcom


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script, a sitcom like All in the Family


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back in the day or a modern um you named


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the sitcom, it's act one, act two,


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that's it in a 30-minute sitcom. A


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teplay, which is a two-hour TV movie, is


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a sevenact


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teleplay. They don't have a lot of


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those. seven acts for the commercial


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breaks on TV, but they still do a seven


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act teleplay even if it's a TV movie or


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a movie on cable with no commercials.


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Okay. So, okay, let's go. Um, a


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screenplay, a TV movie, a teleplay has a


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good story and a good story line that


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you enjoy and most people will love. has


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a main plot


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with a protagonist which is the good


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guy. Could be more than one protagonist.


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Could be two two good guys, three good


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guys. And an antagonist. The bad guy is


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the antagonist. Now, the bad guy doesn't


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have to be a person. The bad guy can


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also be a hurricane, tornado, natural


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disaster, the scenario or circumstance


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they're in can be the bad guy. Okay? And


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then the protagonist has to overcome the


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natural disaster in all the natural


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disaster movies you see.


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How will that happen? How will they u


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overcome if at all? Okay, so that's what


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we're going to work out. So main plot


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has to have so a main plot must be


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supported with at least two or three


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subplots minimum. So, you have a guy


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who's trying to um find his family.


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Okay. The subplot could be, well, his


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divorced wife is coming back. He kind of


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wants her back, but she's, you know,


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she's married or thinking of getting


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married to someone else. Subplot. So,


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you have the daughter who's going to


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college who comes back and catches her


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boyfriend with another guy and then she


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has problems with her parents. Subplot.


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So if you go to a movie or you want to


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go to a movie and you look up the movie


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and the movie is an hour 15 minutes or


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hour 20 okay you might not think much of


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it but as a writer I think of only one


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thing that story that script which was


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made into a movie that's only an hour 20


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minutes long is missing a subplot at


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least one. So if there's a main plot and


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at least two or three subplots, the


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movie should be a minimum of an hour 30,


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90 minute movie on screen. If it's an


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hour 20, hour 25, it's missing a


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subplot, at least one. And that's not


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good. You have the skeleton of the story


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line. The skeleton is missing the flesh


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and the subplots are the flesh of the


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skeleton to fill out the plot, the main


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plot. And you have to have all of it to


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have a complete entree, like a main


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entree at the restaurant. You don't want


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to just have part of the fish and the


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skeleton. You want to have all the flesh


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to eat all of it, right? You want to get


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value out of it and you want to enjoy


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it. And there's reasons why you have to


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have a main plot with other subplots. I


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should slow down or I'm going to finish


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in like 45 minutes. I've got a lot of


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stuff. Now, this master class goes with


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the storytelling master class I told a


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few days ago. So, we're going to link


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the story master class somehow to this


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one and we're going to have it either in


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the description or somehow so you can go


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back and refer to the storytelling


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master class. But this is about script


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and about all about TV shows and movies.


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So excited. I can't wait to share more.


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So, you have a one phenomenal movie. I


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love Good Fellas. Now, Bobby, I don't


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think you watch Good Fellas. It's not


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your type of movie to watch, right?


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Okay. It's an older movie. Narrate the


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movie. So, where you're writing the


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script, you don't want the character or


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any character to narrate and you hear


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there's either a voice over or there's


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narration because that is usually the


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sign of a weak story. And you don't want


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you want to strengthen your story as


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much as possible. Now, with good fellas,


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it worked. Sometimes narration works as


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long as you have the key. The key being


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the movie moves forward because you're


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watching a movie. It's moving along.


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It's moving forward. So narration does


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work in a very very rare circumstance


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like Good Fellas when you have a


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tremendous story. You love and care


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about the characters even though they're


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horrible. You kind of root them on and


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you want them to do well. It's weird,


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but that that's what happens when you


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have a fantastic story. So you don't


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want to narrate and you don't want to


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flash back. Whenever you're telling a


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writing a script, telling a story, you


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don't want to flash back. Whenever you


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have to flash back to tell your audience


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something about the story, that is a bad


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sign. So, you never want to write


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narration unless it's absolutely


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required and will strengthen your story


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like in Good Fellas. And you never ever


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want to flash back. You always want to


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move the movie. You want to move it


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forward. Move the story forward.


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Okay. In every script, uh, whether it's,


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uh, a sitcom, uh, or a TV show or a a


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movie, uh, screenplay, you have act one,


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the introduction of the characters.


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Act two, all the obstacles thrown at the


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characters, and act three, the


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resolution.


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So, act one, everything okay over there?


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>> Perfect. So you have the introduction of


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characters, okay? And then you move


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toward the hook, the hook into act two.


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So when you're watching a movie, and


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you'll never watch a movie the same ever


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again after listening to my master


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class, because you will see where the


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writer put in the hook into act two, the


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final conflict, the end of the final


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conflict, that hooks into act three. And


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you will see it every single time. Every


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single movie you watch, you'll be like,


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"Act three just started. Act that's act


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three coming up. Oh, act three." You'll


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know exactly when because it's all


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formula and it's a formula that works.


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And if it's not broken, you don't fix


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it. And over the generations, people


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have been compelled and have loved


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movies following this one formula. Act


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one, act two, act three. Act one,


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introduction of characters, hook into


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act two. The hook is like all of a


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sudden, [ __ ] all these obstacles are


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starting. Okay? Then you have all the


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obstacles in act two and I'm gonna pace


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it out for you and show you how to do it


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as a script writer. And then you have


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the final confrontation. The end of act


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two is the final confrontation between


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the good guy and the bad guy. And then


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once there's a final confrontation,


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generally you in Hollywood, they like


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the good guy to win. But sometimes you


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have movies like Gladi Gladiator Russell


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Crow dies. Oh [ __ ] man. You don't want


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him to die, but he's dying, right? So


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sometimes you'll have that or Rocky, the


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original Rocky. I think he lost the


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fight, right? But oh like, oh [ __ ] he


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calls out Adrien and that's the


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beginning of act three. Oh my god. And


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then you have a very short resolution


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act three. And um but most of the time


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Hollywood favors a good guy winning, but


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you can have usually if it's a natural


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disaster type movie, you have somehow


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some way you have the protagonist


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overcoming the obstacle and winning the


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final confrontation and then the


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resolution, act three. And I'll show you


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how it's done. I'll show you how they


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win the final confrontation and how it's


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done. So, it's not by miracle or by a


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godlike um you know act of nature. Show


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you exactly how the good guy wins the


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final confrontation if that's how the


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story line goes. Interesting, right?


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You didn't think I knew all this [ __ ]


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Like, why the [ __ ] does he live in such


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a small little tiny home? This guy's


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[ __ ] the master. Yeah, I know. That's


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the irony of life because, you know, God


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doesn't tell knockknock jokes like haha,


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you know?


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God's humor is irony. The people who


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write really, really badly, but they


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have a super duper connection, they're


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living on top of the hill, they have


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been for decades. And the guys like me


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who, you know, are do really well. But


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you know what? If I already had made it


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and I was some big Hollywood guy, first


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of all, you wouldn't have the life you


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have or are about to have, the career


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you have, and all that. So things happen


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for a reason. I wouldn't have the kids I


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have. I'd have different kids. I'm sure


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probably better looking kids, but you


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know, I'm joking, of course.


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Sorry about that. We're live. Okay, so


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let's talk about the hand of God. Okay,


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so you have the final confrontation, the


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end of act two, and we'll go back and


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we'll review act one, act two, act three


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in detail.


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So you have the introduction of


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characters hook into act two and I'll


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show you exactly how to hook and a type


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of hook. I'll give you an example. Then


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you have all the obstacles thrown at the


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character and it's a beat is a moment in


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the script. So just like you have a


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minute, a second into a minute into an


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hour. Every beat is a moment in the


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script. So you have beat after beat


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after beat. From the beginning of act


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two, I'm sorry, from the beginning of


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act one to the end of act three, you


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have beat after beat after beat. You


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have to pace it properly. Okay? Just


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like in real life. You don't all of a


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sudden become 99 years old, right? It


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takes time over time. So you have to


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pace it slowly, not too fast. So, you


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have the final confrontation, end of act


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two, and people are like, "Oh my god,


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the good guy is never going to beat the


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[ __ ] tornado. It's taking out


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everyone. What's he going to do?" Well,


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the writer, who's clever,


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inserts a tool. It could be a person. It


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could be a dog. It could be any kind of


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tool at the beginning of the story that


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the audience is not expecting and not


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aware of.


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that comes back to help the protagonist


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overcome the antagonist. Because in a


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great story, the antagonist is so


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[ __ ] powerful. There's no way the


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good guy is going to win. Absolutely no


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way. And rarely the good guy dies or is


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defeated. And sometimes that's a great


00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:06.629
story, too. But most of the time the


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good guy overcomes. How how does he


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overcome such a powerful antagonist with


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the tool that's inserted the beginning


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of the story that comes back? Now, if


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you did not the writer did not insert


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that tool, whether it's a person or a


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car or some instrument that comes back


00:14:26.079 --> 00:14:28.870
to help the good guy overcome, then the


00:14:28.880 --> 00:14:30.949
audience will be like that that [ __ ]


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was so unreal. That was not believable.


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They call that the hand of God. If


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there's no tool or instrument inserted


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in the beginning of the story to help


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the protagonist later defeat the bad guy


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in the final confrontation and just all


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of a sudden the good guy wins,


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they're going to they say that's the


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hand of God and it's never credible. It


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never makes for a good story line. The


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audience would not believe it. They'll


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feel jipped. So the writer inserts an


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instrument, a person, someone at the


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beginning of the story with some type of


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power or ability or support system


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that's able to come back at the end of


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act two. And it's someone that's has


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been instrumental in the movie. It's not


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someone who just appeared in one scene


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at the beginning at the introduction of


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characters, disappears, and then comes


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back at the at the end of act two to


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help the goodie guy. It's someone who's


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been instrumental that you not you're


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not imagining the good guy is going to


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use that tool or instrument or person to


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defeat the bad guy. But it that's how


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you overcome the antagonist who's so


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extremely powerful.


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And um that's how you do it. So I have


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that. So let me put


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with one. Okay. What are the best parts


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of a movie or a TV show that you love?


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Bobby, what are the very best parts of a


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movie that you enjoy?


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The ending. So, you love the ending


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because it wraps up and you know what


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happened to the characters and uh you're


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feeling relief or you're feeling


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happiness or you're feeling sadness


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and you feel you got value from your


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time. You enjoy it. It's an escape from


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from life. And sometimes you're watching


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Mission Impossible or James Bond and you


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want to be that character. You desire to


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be that character just like Harry


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Potter. All the kids wanted to be Harry


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Potter. They wanted to do magic. They


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wanted to be that magician. Am I right?


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And guess what? I want to tell you


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something. I've never seen Harry Potter.


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I've never read any of the books.


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at all. Not one word, not one minute of


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any of the movies. So, how did I know


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that? Because I know what makes a good


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[ __ ] movie. So, when you desire


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to be James Bond or Tom Cruz in Mission


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Impossible, when Tom Cruz is running or


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he's saving the girl or jumping off a


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train, well, maybe not that part,


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but I give him credit. Uh, you want to


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be him. the music starts playing and you


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desire to be like the character, like


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you desire to be Harry Potter. Okay, so


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that's your favorite part. My favorite


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part is always the characters. I [ __ ]


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love the characters. I hope you guys


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don't mind the cursing. I'm very very


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enthusiastic about story and about


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script writing. So, um I love good


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characters, bad characters. I love them


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all. And let me see the humanity of


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characters.


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Uh relatable factor. You want them you


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want to be able to relate. You don't


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want a a character that's like a


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billionaire that uh is just a


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billionaire that you never really can


00:17:53.760 --> 00:17:57.190
relate to is no fun. Now, a billionaire


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character that um you know cheats on his


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husband


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or steals or you know uh curses the mail


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carrier. [ __ ] that's more relatable,


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right? Or has a problem with the next


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door neighbor or that's relatable,


00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:17.430
right? So, he could be a billionaire but


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you have to give him relatable


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qualities. Okay. Now, another thing I


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love is tension. You have to have


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tension. Just the same way I'm the


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engine of the show. I can have a guest


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and the guest won't know what the [ __ ]


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to say. So I I talk to the guest. I tell


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a joke. I even set them up and let them


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tell their jokes. They think they're


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telling a joke, but they don't realize I


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set them up with the joke. I lay the I


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lay the joke, the foundation of the


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joke, so they'll give the punchline. And


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so that same way that conflict in your


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story has to move the story along and it


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has to have tension. And I love a good


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story, a thriller that's full of


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tension. Now, oh, that character is


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going to die. You didn't drink your


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coffee. You didn't want it. I made that


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with love. No, it's cool now. I heated


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it for you even. Okay. So, let me see.


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So, you have to have obstacles. So,


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let's go back to act one. You have the


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introduction of the characters. And


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you're thinking, Tony, not everyone can


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just write a script just like that. Yes,


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you can. So, let me show you how. The


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first thing you do is you uh think about


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what kind of story you want to write.


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What kind of setting you want to set it


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in the environment? Modern times, older


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times.


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What are your secondary characters? Now


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you have to think,


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you have to think and ponder before you


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start writing. Will the good guy in my


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story make it? Will he survive? What are


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the good guys goals? What is he trying


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to achieve? Now go ahead. Okay, great.


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And this goes back to uh the


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storytelling chat that we had. Oh,


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Arresty, I need to put you on payroll.


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People are going to think like I'm


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paying you to do do this, but you know


00:20:07.679 --> 00:20:10.390
what? You deserve to be on my payroll.


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What movies have you written? Well, I


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wrote a lot of movies and none of them


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[ __ ] got made. Yes. Horrible, right?


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So, you can be a ghost writer. I've


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written more books. I've written a lot


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of books that were published like


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Memoirs from a Broken Heart. And that


00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:30.070
was the number one book back in 2004,


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which dates me. I know I'm old. Uh I


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have not written anything that was made


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into a movie. Most writers, 95% of the


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movies they write are not made. They're


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paid


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or they're paid and the movie is not


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even ever going to see the light of day.


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That has happened to me my entire life.


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But I'm good because now [ __ ] I talk


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to Arresty all day long. What more can I


00:20:57.120 --> 00:20:58.870
want out of life? I'm glad that movie,


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the movies I made didn't get made, the


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movies I wrote because Arresty, aren't


00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:05.190
you happy you get to talk to me? Did you


00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:07.190
know about the Potter remakes? No.


00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:09.909
Arresty. Um, I wish you would keep


00:21:09.919 --> 00:21:11.909
writing. Arresty. I think uh you're one


00:21:11.919 --> 00:21:14.149
of the most wonderful people I've ever I


00:21:14.159 --> 00:21:16.070
could barely get that [ __ ] out. Did you


00:21:16.080 --> 00:21:17.990
know about the Potter remix? No. I


00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:22.070
didn't see a single moment of any lol.


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Arresty. Can you make the those baby


00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:26.230
hearts come out of that big heart? I


00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:27.669
just love Was that Oh, that was fake


00:21:27.679 --> 00:21:30.710
Lucifer who did that, right? Okay. So,


00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:32.870
keep laughing. I'm entertaining people


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and they're learning [ __ ] And you know


00:21:35.360 --> 00:21:37.190
what? Here's the thing, Arresty, I got


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to tell you. So, I'm teaching you all


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about script writing in the storytelling


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master class, about stories in general,


00:21:43.600 --> 00:21:45.669
the fundamentals of storytelling. And


00:21:45.679 --> 00:21:49.430
guess what? James Cameron is never ever


00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:51.110
ever going to do one of these classes


00:21:51.120 --> 00:21:53.909
because he doesn't care about you like I


00:21:53.919 --> 00:21:57.430
care about you. And you'll never find a


00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:00.390
script writer telling stories. And if


00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:02.390
you go on TED, all that [ __ ] is boring


00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:05.190
as hell. You can have a writing TID and


00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:06.789
they'll be like, "Okay, today get the


00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:08.470
[ __ ] out of here. That [ __ ] is boring."


00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:11.350
Right? And so you'll never have that,


00:22:11.360 --> 00:22:13.110
aren't you glad? And you can always turn


00:22:13.120 --> 00:22:16.870
to a short and laugh or go to the silent


00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:18.630
film Alone Together. I'm going to break


00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:21.830
it down and tell you exactly why that


00:22:21.840 --> 00:22:24.789
short I made Alone Together was a hit


00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:26.549
and why people love it. I'll break it


00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:28.950
down as far as and we'll even talk about


00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:30.789
the $10 million movie idea I'm going to


00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:35.830
give you guys for free. Okay. So,


00:22:35.840 --> 00:22:38.470
what's the sign of a great story? You


00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:40.230
know, Bobby,


00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:45.750
yeah, you do. You love the character.


00:22:45.760 --> 00:22:48.390
Okay. That's if you're trying to to um


00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:50.549
have it promoted or you want to show it


00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:53.029
to an agent, you need a good summary, a


00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:55.270
good log line. Okay. Also, for people to


00:22:55.280 --> 00:22:57.029
come to the theater, you don't you want


00:22:57.039 --> 00:22:59.110
them to just Exactly. You wanted to


00:22:59.120 --> 00:23:01.750
summarize in one short the man who died


00:23:01.760 --> 00:23:10.710
or whatever.


00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:12.789
Okay, don't take over my show, please.


00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:15.190
But okay, but it's fine. I love when you


00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:18.070
interact. Absolutely love it. Um, but


00:23:18.080 --> 00:23:20.310
that's as a writer, as someone who's,


00:23:20.320 --> 00:23:21.909
you know, you went to film school,


00:23:21.919 --> 00:23:24.230
you're enthusiast about film. I'm


00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:26.789
talking about an audience member. So,


00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:28.470
what are the signs of a great character


00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:31.270
for an audience member? A character they


00:23:31.280 --> 00:23:33.750
love. They can relate, right? You want


00:23:33.760 --> 00:23:36.230
to root them on. So, back in the day,


00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:38.070
Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, Robert


00:23:38.080 --> 00:23:39.909
Redford, that's back before your time.


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You can still watch it now on probably


00:23:41.520 --> 00:23:44.070
YouTube. They were the worst. They


00:23:44.080 --> 00:23:46.710
robbed banks and they were horrible. But


00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:49.190
boy, you wanted them to get away. You


00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:51.190
know, you have a lot of characters, bad


00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:52.630
characters. You just want them to do


00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:54.230
well. You don't want to you don't want


00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:56.470
Thelma and Louise to drive off the


00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:58.789
cliff, right? It's horrible, right? And


00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:00.710
that's another u movie where the


00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:03.909
characters die at the end. Okay, so


00:24:03.919 --> 00:24:05.590
Rainman, which I brought up last time in


00:24:05.600 --> 00:24:08.310
the storytelling class. Rainman, you


00:24:08.320 --> 00:24:11.110
want the the brother Tom Cruz, who was


00:24:11.120 --> 00:24:12.710
bad and arked into good. We'll talk


00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:15.510
about Ark very shortly. You want him to


00:24:15.520 --> 00:24:17.750
go with his Rainman brother, autistic


00:24:17.760 --> 00:24:19.510
brother. You want them to go together


00:24:19.520 --> 00:24:22.549
and live together happy happily ever


00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:24.310
after. You know, you don't want them to


00:24:24.320 --> 00:24:26.310
separate, right? It hurts you when they


00:24:26.320 --> 00:24:28.630
separate and they hug at the train and


00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:30.630
the Rainman character doesn't really


00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:33.750
know or feel the same emotions that his


00:24:33.760 --> 00:24:36.710
good brother is going through. It hurts


00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:39.750
to watch that, right? That's a science


00:24:39.760 --> 00:24:42.710
of a [ __ ] great movie. Okay, so let's


00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:44.630
see. Third.


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Okay, now so you have arresty, you have


00:24:47.679 --> 00:24:52.070
more for me. I love it.


00:24:52.080 --> 00:24:54.549
Okay, so I love it. Arusty is not doing


00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:55.750
anything all day long. He's just


00:24:55.760 --> 00:24:57.510
watching our live streams. It's okay.


00:24:57.520 --> 00:24:59.350
He's probably independently wealthy. I


00:24:59.360 --> 00:25:01.350
told you he has a Romanian prostitution


00:25:01.360 --> 00:25:03.909
ring. I want to go be his best friend. I


00:25:03.919 --> 00:25:05.830
love it. But you know, you don't want me


00:25:05.840 --> 00:25:07.590
to do that because it would uh hurt the


00:25:07.600 --> 00:25:09.750
feelings of my wife and uh [ __ ] it,


00:25:09.760 --> 00:25:11.750
Rusty. Just call me. I'm telling you, me


00:25:11.760 --> 00:25:14.230
and you could be best friends. Okay. So,


00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:17.269
you have what makes up a scene? You have


00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:20.390
bits that make up a scene. So, a scene


00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:22.950
is uh the guy walks in the restaurant.


00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:24.789
He's going on a date with the girl and


00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:26.390
he goes to meet her at the restaurant.


00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:28.870
That's a scene. So, you have the bit. He


00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:31.669
comes through the door. Uh so, you have


00:25:31.679 --> 00:25:34.630
interior exterior restaurant. A man


00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:36.149
walks into the restaurant. You have a


00:25:36.159 --> 00:25:38.630
bit sits down at he's seated at a table.


00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:40.870
That's another bit. He's waiting. He


00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:42.789
picks up the menu. That's another bit.


00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:45.430
So all these bits make up the scene.


00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:49.590
Several scenes make up a sequence.


00:25:49.600 --> 00:25:52.710
Sequences. A series of sequences make up


00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:58.230
the act. So little bits make up a scene.


00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:01.750
Several scenes, a sequence of se um a


00:26:01.760 --> 00:26:05.110
series of scenes make up a sequence. Uh


00:26:05.120 --> 00:26:08.870
series of sequences make up the act. You


00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:12.710
have act one hooking into act two. How?


00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:16.630
Okay, so you have Mill Brooks in a movie


00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:19.990
where he uh becomes homeless, right?


00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:23.269
This is years ago. So, or Trading


00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:25.269
Places, Eddie Murphy. It's a little bit


00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:27.669
newer. So, Eddie Murphy all of a sudden


00:26:27.679 --> 00:26:29.830
becomes homeless. He goes into an


00:26:29.840 --> 00:26:32.070
environment where he's a homeless guy.


00:26:32.080 --> 00:26:33.750
You have obstacles being thrown at both


00:26:33.760 --> 00:26:35.269
characters, the Mel Brooks character and


00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:37.029
Eddie Murphy, right? They're homeless.


00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:38.310
They have to deal with all that [ __ ]


00:26:38.320 --> 00:26:40.549
being homeless, right? So, they just


00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:43.110
entered act two. Act one, introduction,


00:26:43.120 --> 00:26:46.230
Mel Brooks. How does he get into that


00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:48.630
situation? He's got a, you know, a bet


00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:50.870
with another guy, the antagonist, and


00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:52.950
they they have a bet and trading places


00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:55.190
with Eddie Murphy. It shows you


00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:57.190
introduction of characters, and then he


00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:59.110
gets into boom, hook into act two,


00:26:59.120 --> 00:27:01.350
homeless. Okay. All of a sudden, he's at


00:27:01.360 --> 00:27:02.549
a homeless shelter. He's looking at


00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:03.990
other homeless guys. He wakes up with a


00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:05.909
homeless guy in his face. All that


00:27:05.919 --> 00:27:07.990
stuff. Then obstacle after obstacle.


00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:09.510
Does he ever get out of this situation?


00:27:09.520 --> 00:27:11.750
How does he get out? Leading up to act


00:27:11.760 --> 00:27:13.909
two, the resolution.


00:27:13.919 --> 00:27:17.590
Okay, so let's talk about uh flesh out


00:27:17.600 --> 00:27:19.110
the story like an architect. The


00:27:19.120 --> 00:27:21.510
architect envisions the house before he


00:27:21.520 --> 00:27:23.350
builds it, before he does a blueprint


00:27:23.360 --> 00:27:25.909
and I was storytelling, discussing it.


00:27:25.919 --> 00:27:27.909
So the architect knows exactly what the


00:27:27.919 --> 00:27:29.669
house is going to look like, the


00:27:29.679 --> 00:27:32.470
windows, the roof. And it turns out


00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:34.310
exactly after he does the blueprints and


00:27:34.320 --> 00:27:36.870
all that it turns out exactly like he


00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:38.950
had envisioned and like he had written


00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:41.830
in the blueprint from the very beginning


00:27:41.840 --> 00:27:43.590
everything comes out like the final


00:27:43.600 --> 00:27:45.350
blueprint. And that's how you have to


00:27:45.360 --> 00:27:47.510
have your script. You have to have the


00:27:47.520 --> 00:27:49.669
ending in mind. You have to know exactly


00:27:49.679 --> 00:27:52.549
how it ends. And then you have to do


00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:53.909
what I'm telling you not to do in the


00:27:53.919 --> 00:27:57.029
actual script. You have to go back and


00:27:57.039 --> 00:27:59.350
start from the very beginning knowing


00:27:59.360 --> 00:28:00.789
where you're going to end like the


00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:03.269
architect. And then you have your


00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:05.190
characters, whatever characters you came


00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:06.470
up with. And I'm going to show you how


00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:08.950
to flesh out the type of characters you


00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:11.269
need and the surround surrounding


00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:12.789
supporting characters. I'm going to show


00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:14.950
you how to get all those. How long have


00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:16.310
I been going for? I feel like I've been


00:28:16.320 --> 00:28:18.549
talking all day.


00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:19.909
How long?


00:28:19.919 --> 00:28:20.870
>> 20.


00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:22.950
>> 40. Okay.


00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.149
Okay. Flash out. Okay,


00:28:26.159 --> 00:28:29.110
so you have the backbone of the script.


00:28:29.120 --> 00:28:32.310
Okay, you have a main character, you


00:28:32.320 --> 00:28:34.710
have the main plot, you have a couple of


00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:37.350
subplots supporting the main plot, you


00:28:37.360 --> 00:28:40.070
have the backbone like a fish, bones of


00:28:40.080 --> 00:28:42.789
a fish. Now, you have to intertwine the


00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:44.789
main plot with the subplots. How do you


00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:47.909
do that? Let me give you an example. And


00:28:47.919 --> 00:28:51.269
here is your $10 million movie idea.


00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:56.710
Let's call it My Dog title My Dog. So,


00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:58.789
let's say you're writing a story. What


00:28:58.799 --> 00:29:01.669
do you know? You know, you have to have


00:29:01.679 --> 00:29:05.190
a a character that's very relatable that


00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:06.950
people can relate to, that people will


00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:09.430
love. You know that you have to have a


00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:12.070
story with a lot of conflict.


00:29:12.080 --> 00:29:13.750
The conflict is going to drive the


00:29:13.760 --> 00:29:15.990
story. Like, Arresty, you were talking


00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:17.430
about the needs and the wants of the


00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:19.510
character. The needs and the wants are


00:29:19.520 --> 00:29:21.590
going to come out of the all the


00:29:21.600 --> 00:29:23.750
obstacles, all the conflict will create


00:29:23.760 --> 00:29:25.750
all the needs and the wants. Now, what


00:29:25.760 --> 00:29:27.350
were the needs and wants of Mel Brooks


00:29:27.360 --> 00:29:29.190
or Eddie Murphy to get out of that


00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:30.710
homeless situation where they were


00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.190
homeless in act two, right? So, all of a


00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:34.389
sudden, their needs and wants are


00:29:34.399 --> 00:29:36.230
created and the audience goes for a


00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:40.549
ride. Okay. So you have the story my dog


00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:44.230
full-length feature and so you have u


00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:46.310
I'm an older guy so I'm gonna write


00:29:46.320 --> 00:29:48.950
about a story about an older guy. So my


00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:51.510
main the good guy the protagonist is an


00:29:51.520 --> 00:29:55.830
older man and uh


00:29:55.840 --> 00:29:58.149
he's mentally challenged. Of course I am


00:29:58.159 --> 00:30:01.269
not. Well my wife might say I am but


00:30:01.279 --> 00:30:03.510
when I especially when we argue you know


00:30:03.520 --> 00:30:05.110
I don't like you're so annoying. Your


00:30:05.120 --> 00:30:07.590
voice is annoying.


00:30:07.600 --> 00:30:09.029
She married me, right? I wasn't


00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:10.950
annoying. I wasn't annoying this morning


00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:13.269
when I went to Costco and went shopping.


00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:17.350
Right. Okay. So, you have a story, a


00:30:17.360 --> 00:30:19.269
script you're writing about a disabled


00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:22.230
or mentally challenged older man who


00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:25.190
loses his dog. There you go, Bobby. You


00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:27.830
have your [ __ ] log line. A man who


00:30:27.840 --> 00:30:30.389
loses his dog. A disabled man losing his


00:30:30.399 --> 00:30:32.710
dog. Oh [ __ ] You want to cry right now?


00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:35.269
Okay, correct me. Go ahead.


00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:36.789
And then what happens? Well, that's a


00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:38.710
log line. You're not have you don't have


00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:40.149
to give them more. You have the log


00:30:40.159 --> 00:30:41.669
line. You have the advertisement, the


00:30:41.679 --> 00:30:44.310
promotion. Okay? And you want to know


00:30:44.320 --> 00:30:46.070
what happens. Well, that's why you go


00:30:46.080 --> 00:30:47.430
see the movie. That's why people are


00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:49.430
interested. So, that's why you flesh out


00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:52.070
the story. You want to sit here next to


00:30:52.080 --> 00:30:55.590
me and and do the class. Okay. So, I'm


00:30:55.600 --> 00:30:57.669
going to give it away. So, then how do


00:30:57.679 --> 00:31:00.630
you do that? So, you envision just like


00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.750
I envisioned myself losing 200 pounds. I


00:31:03.760 --> 00:31:06.630
had the vision. So I tell Bobby,


00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:09.430
envision our silent film winning an


00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:12.310
Academy Award. Envision us being called


00:31:12.320 --> 00:31:15.110
and going up to the podium and accepting


00:31:15.120 --> 00:31:17.590
that award. And envision me talking


00:31:17.600 --> 00:31:20.070
about how great you guys are and I


00:31:20.080 --> 00:31:21.430
really have to be a great actor for


00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:23.990
that, right? No, you are. You guys are


00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:26.230
truly genuinely fantastic and I'm glad I


00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:28.149
met you. Okay, now this is where you say


00:31:28.159 --> 00:31:30.070
you're glad you met me. No, you don't.


00:31:30.080 --> 00:31:32.710
Don't feel obligated to reciprocate.


00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:35.430
Okay, so you have my dog. You envision


00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:37.269
the main character. He's [ __ ]


00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:39.669
disabled. That means he probably, you


00:31:39.679 --> 00:31:40.950
know, he's not rich. Doesn't have a lot


00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:42.470
of money. Probably living at home with


00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:44.230
his mom.


00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:46.630
That sound like me. You envision the


00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:49.269
dog, his beloved dog. He doesn't have


00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:51.590
anything in life except his dog. He


00:31:51.600 --> 00:31:52.950
doesn't have money. He doesn't have a


00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:55.509
car. And his dog loves him. His dog


00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:57.909
doesn't know that the guy's a [ __ ]


00:31:57.919 --> 00:31:59.830
loser. You know what? I'm sorry. I take


00:31:59.840 --> 00:32:01.909
that back. He just uh doesn't know his


00:32:01.919 --> 00:32:04.230
circumstances or that he's, you know,


00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:06.950
he's people call him a loser and people


00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:09.190
see him as a loser and judge him and


00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:11.350
think he's a loser, but he's not. He's


00:32:11.360 --> 00:32:12.630
got the love of this dog


00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:14.549
unconditionally.


00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:16.630
So, you relate. You relate. Love of an


00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:18.789
animal, love of a pet. The loser thing I


00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:20.870
was just joking. That's one bad joke I


00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:24.549
told out of 3,000 jokes. Scratch that.


00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:28.549
Okay. Um, you forgive me, right?


00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:33.190
Okay. So you envisioned um setting where


00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:35.029
is he? Well, he's probably living with


00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:38.470
his uncle who uh is taking care of him


00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:40.070
because he gets a check from the


00:32:40.080 --> 00:32:42.789
government to take care of this uh this


00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:45.269
older man and he doesn't really he


00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:47.110
abuses him. Maybe he doesn't care about


00:32:47.120 --> 00:32:48.630
him. He just has him there for the


00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:52.389
government check to be his caregiver. So


00:32:52.399 --> 00:32:53.990
you feel bad for the guy. He doesn't


00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:55.830
have anything. He's disabled. He's


00:32:55.840 --> 00:32:58.310
mentally challenged in so many ways. Uh


00:32:58.320 --> 00:33:01.110
people judge him. His uncle doesn't care


00:33:01.120 --> 00:33:04.070
about him. Uh yells at him, curses him.


00:33:04.080 --> 00:33:06.870
He just has his dog. Loves his dog. His


00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:08.710
dog is his whole life. And the dog's


00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:12.149
about to [ __ ] die, right? Horrible.


00:33:12.159 --> 00:33:14.950
So you see that. So you set it up where


00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:17.430
you have the introduction of characters.


00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:21.190
So then you see you hook into act two.


00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:22.710
Oh my god, I'm so excited. that just


00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:24.389
hesitated right there because he takes


00:33:24.399 --> 00:33:27.990
the dog to his annual free clinic


00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:30.230
checkup. And that's where they tell him,


00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:33.110
"I'm sorry, sir. Your dog has this


00:33:33.120 --> 00:33:37.669
whatever disease and your dog is dying."


00:33:37.679 --> 00:33:40.070
Boom. You just hooked into act two. You


00:33:40.080 --> 00:33:42.789
see that? Or another example you can


00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:45.269
give, but let's stick with this movie.


00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:46.710
There's so many things where you can


00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:48.789
hook into act two. You introduce the


00:33:48.799 --> 00:33:49.990
characters. You have them in the


00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:52.470
setting. You set it up where just like


00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:53.909
you're pouring the foundation for the


00:33:53.919 --> 00:33:55.750
house. You're pouring the foundation for


00:33:55.760 --> 00:33:58.549
your story and arresty. You didn't think


00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:01.350
I was this good, did you? Where'd you


00:34:01.360 --> 00:34:04.070
go? Going on. You're my number one fan.


00:34:04.080 --> 00:34:07.029
You can't go now. Ask me something else.


00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:08.629
Okay, Bobby, if you want to ask me


00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:10.470
something, just go ahead. We lost fake


00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:12.790
Lucifer, but maybe that's for the better


00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:14.869
because we pray to God all the time.


00:34:14.879 --> 00:34:16.790
Well, I do anyway. Okay, we're not going


00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:20.389
to get religious because our religion is


00:34:20.399 --> 00:34:22.950
script writing right now. We want to


00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:25.109
just obsess about it, pray about it,


00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:27.109
think about it. Because as you're


00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:29.349
writing a script, when you're laying


00:34:29.359 --> 00:34:31.430
down to take a nap or you're laying down


00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:34.069
at night and you're about to sleep, the


00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:36.389
characters will evolve in your head.


00:34:36.399 --> 00:34:38.389
Let's say you're in act one. And


00:34:38.399 --> 00:34:39.909
remember, writing is very time


00:34:39.919 --> 00:34:42.069
consuming. It's a very tedious,


00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:44.710
cumbersome process. Something that takes


00:34:44.720 --> 00:34:47.430
time. So, it takes you a while. You're


00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:48.950
not just going to write it, you know,


00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:50.790
the same day or in a couple of days,


00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:52.710
even though it's been known, people have


00:34:52.720 --> 00:34:55.510
been have written feature string


00:34:55.520 --> 00:34:58.230
scripts, screenplays in a weekend, but


00:34:58.240 --> 00:35:00.390
it's very rare. Most of the time, it


00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:02.870
takes a long time and the characters


00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:04.790
evolve. And as you're laying down, you


00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:06.470
just maybe you're in the middle of act


00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:08.150
one, introducing the characters, writing


00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:10.630
the script, and the character all of a


00:35:10.640 --> 00:35:12.150
sudden, oh [ __ ] something else happened


00:35:12.160 --> 00:35:13.670
in your head, another scene popped into


00:35:13.680 --> 00:35:16.470
your head. write it down or another way


00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:18.790
into another obstacle because you need


00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:20.470
the more obstacles the better. The more


00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:22.230
conflict the better. As long as it's


00:35:22.240 --> 00:35:24.310
credible, it goes along moving along


00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:26.630
your story. It's pacing. The story is


00:35:26.640 --> 00:35:29.430
paced correctly. Write it down. Get up


00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:31.109
in the middle of the night. A story idea


00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:33.109
just came to you. The characters are


00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:34.630
living in your head while you're


00:35:34.640 --> 00:35:37.670
writing. Now, remember, you just don't


00:35:37.680 --> 00:35:40.390
go to script right away. And as a new


00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:41.829
writer, you're not just going to go to


00:35:41.839 --> 00:35:44.150
the top of, you know, studio head and be


00:35:44.160 --> 00:35:46.390
like, I've got a movie, you know, let's


00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:48.710
do this movie. It doesn't work that way.


00:35:48.720 --> 00:35:50.870
A lot of times you have to come up with


00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:53.670
the story and you're thinking of the


00:35:53.680 --> 00:35:55.990
story. You envision the characters. So,


00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:59.270
first you write an outline before you go


00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:01.589
to script. Before you write the script,


00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:04.150
before you write one word, before you


00:36:04.160 --> 00:36:06.390
write anything interior, exterior,


00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:08.870
before any of that, you have to, and


00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:10.390
we'll talk about the software you can


00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:12.790
use and all that, you have to do a


00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:14.390
outline.


00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:16.630
So, you have an outline is the very


00:36:16.640 --> 00:36:18.390
first thing after you've envisioned your


00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:19.990
characters and you have in your head and


00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:21.829
you know what to do with your characters


00:36:21.839 --> 00:36:24.230
somewhat and you want to flesh it out,


00:36:24.240 --> 00:36:27.109
you go to outline. The outline is the


00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:28.950
first thing you do. You start to the


00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:30.630
even though you know the ending, you


00:36:30.640 --> 00:36:32.150
know how it's going to end, you still


00:36:32.160 --> 00:36:33.750
start to outline the beginning of your


00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:36.150
script, the beginning of your story. You


00:36:36.160 --> 00:36:39.349
write the outline. A you know there's um


00:36:39.359 --> 00:36:41.829
a dog's licking the the man's face.


00:36:41.839 --> 00:36:44.870
Okay. Um then you hear the the uncle


00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:46.870
yelling at him. Come inside the [ __ ]


00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:49.990
house. So you have the outline beat by


00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:52.550
beat or sequence by sequence and then


00:36:52.560 --> 00:36:54.470
you you fill it in. Okay? So you have


00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:56.870
the outline a rough outline from


00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:58.390
beginning to the end. Remember you


00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:00.790
already know the end. So you make your


00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:02.870
way in the outline and then you make it


00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:05.670
make the general outline a more detailed


00:37:05.680 --> 00:37:08.230
outline. As a story lives in your head


00:37:08.240 --> 00:37:10.390
and the script is living in your head.


00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:12.310
It takes time before you go to script


00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:14.230
and you start writing the script. You


00:37:14.240 --> 00:37:16.950
have an outline, a general outline, then


00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:20.230
you have a a very a rough outline then


00:37:20.240 --> 00:37:22.790
you have a more detailed outline. And


00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:24.069
when you think you're ready with a


00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:27.349
detailed outline, not beat by beat, bit


00:37:27.359 --> 00:37:30.069
by bit. You don't have to have scene by


00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:33.349
scene by scene, but generally most of


00:37:33.359 --> 00:37:35.990
the scenes are in your outline.


00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:39.910
Definitely act one book into act two,


00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:42.790
act two, and act three, the resolution,


00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:44.630
the final confrontation, act two, all


00:37:44.640 --> 00:37:47.030
that's in your outline.


00:37:47.040 --> 00:37:49.829
Now remember, the middle of act two is


00:37:49.839 --> 00:37:52.470
the turning point of your script. very


00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:55.349
important. So if you go every movie,


00:37:55.359 --> 00:37:57.430
let's say it's a two-hour movie, uh


00:37:57.440 --> 00:37:59.910
Rocky or whatever, whatever it is, could


00:37:59.920 --> 00:38:02.310
be a drama, comedy, the middle of the


00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:04.950
movie is always the very middle,


00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:06.950
generally speaking, right in the middle


00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:09.430
is the turning point. So the middle of


00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:11.270
act two, you have all these obstacles


00:38:11.280 --> 00:38:13.670
and something major happens in the


00:38:13.680 --> 00:38:17.270
middle of act two to turn the situation.


00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:19.829
It's always going to be


00:38:19.839 --> 00:38:21.990
a worse situation. It's never going to


00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:23.910
be better in the beginning of in the


00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:26.470
middle of act two because it has to


00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:28.470
build up and get worse and worse and


00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:30.390
worse and worse and worse and worse and


00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:32.310
worse and worse until the final


00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:34.069
confrontation.


00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:35.750
But there has to be a turning point in


00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:37.670
the middle of act two and it has to be


00:38:37.680 --> 00:38:40.230
the engine, the conflict that keeps


00:38:40.240 --> 00:38:43.270
going. Okay, so you're envisioning the


00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:46.950
my dog, the main character, his dog, his


00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:49.109
beloved dog hooks into act two where he


00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:51.510
finds out the dog's gonna die. [ __ ] His


00:38:51.520 --> 00:38:53.349
whole life is turned upside down. You


00:38:53.359 --> 00:38:55.510
can imagine this movie, right? Have you


00:38:55.520 --> 00:38:59.109
ever heard of this kind of movie?


00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:01.349
Lassie, Benji, none of it comes. Look, I


00:39:01.359 --> 00:39:03.510
just thought of this movie idea right


00:39:03.520 --> 00:39:05.109
now when I was outlining before we


00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:06.870
started. [ __ ] I'm so [ __ ] good,


00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:10.470
right? Okay. So, and I'm just giving it


00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:12.710
away. I bet you some professional


00:39:12.720 --> 00:39:15.510
professional, I use it loosely, is going


00:39:15.520 --> 00:39:16.790
to probably copy this [ __ ] They always


00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:19.430
copy [ __ ] right? You give it to them.


00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:21.750
Okay. So, you create obstacles for the


00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:24.390
good guy, this old elderly man whose dog


00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:27.430
is dying. So, his dog is dying and he


00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:28.790
doesn't have any money to take care of


00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:32.150
the to help the dog for treatment. The


00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:33.589
dog's going to die for sure. It's got a


00:39:33.599 --> 00:39:35.829
cancer. It's cannot recover. Can do a


00:39:35.839 --> 00:39:37.990
surgery, but can't afford the surgery.


00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:39.589
So, the free clinic says we can give him


00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:41.030
some pain meds to make him feel


00:39:41.040 --> 00:39:43.030
comfortable until he dies. Well, that's


00:39:43.040 --> 00:39:45.829
not good. Maybe he tries to do a car


00:39:45.839 --> 00:39:48.390
wash or some event to raise money for


00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:50.950
the surgery for the dog. But then as


00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:53.589
he's doing the car wash to raise money


00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:56.790
to do the surgery for his dog, maybe the


00:39:56.800 --> 00:40:00.470
dog gets [ __ ] stolen. Oh [ __ ] his


00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:03.270
dog is dying and he's the dog was


00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:05.430
kidnapped. He's not even going to say


00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:07.510
bye to his dog. He doesn't know where


00:40:07.520 --> 00:40:10.870
his dog is. Someone stole his dog. Some


00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:13.750
sick [ __ ] stole the dog and he doesn't


00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:15.829
even know where the dog went. So now


00:40:15.839 --> 00:40:17.349
he's trying to find out where the dog


00:40:17.359 --> 00:40:20.310
is. He's, you know, and all these


00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:22.470
obstacles. You see how I do it? And


00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:24.069
maybe they're turning point. Maybe the


00:40:24.079 --> 00:40:26.069
cops come to try to help him, but the


00:40:26.079 --> 00:40:27.670
cops don't care about this [ __ ] man


00:40:27.680 --> 00:40:29.670
and his dog, right? And especially if


00:40:29.680 --> 00:40:31.670
it's LA or metropolitan city, New York


00:40:31.680 --> 00:40:33.510
City, whatever, not going to give a [ __ ]


00:40:33.520 --> 00:40:35.349
about some dog. They've got bigger


00:40:35.359 --> 00:40:38.470
problems, right? So you have all these


00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:40.630
uh things where you have to have also


00:40:40.640 --> 00:40:42.150
characters to support the main


00:40:42.160 --> 00:40:45.030
character. You can hear me? Okay. Okay.


00:40:45.040 --> 00:40:48.470
So you have the uncle who's abusing the


00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:51.589
the older character. Let's call him


00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:53.829
let's call him Jerry. Okay. Jerry the


00:40:53.839 --> 00:40:55.670
older man who's about to lose his dog


00:40:55.680 --> 00:40:58.630
whose dog gets kidnapped. And man, he's


00:40:58.640 --> 00:41:01.349
got so many problems going on.


00:41:01.359 --> 00:41:04.309
So he sees a dog. It might be his dog.


00:41:04.319 --> 00:41:06.230
He goes and sees it's not his dog. It's


00:41:06.240 --> 00:41:08.150
another dog that looks like his dog. Oh


00:41:08.160 --> 00:41:09.910
my god, what's he going to do? So, he


00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:11.750
meets someone at the shelter. He's


00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:13.589
crying his eyes out and the person at


00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:15.430
the shelter says, "You know what, Jerry?


00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:17.829
I'm going to help you try to find your


00:41:17.839 --> 00:41:19.430
dog." That's another supporting


00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:20.710
character, even though he was not


00:41:20.720 --> 00:41:23.270
introduced in uh act one. You can


00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:26.390
introduce a character uh toward the


00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:29.510
beginning or at the very latest, the


00:41:29.520 --> 00:41:31.510
middle of act two. It's up to you as


00:41:31.520 --> 00:41:33.670
long as it seems credible. Now, if he


00:41:33.680 --> 00:41:37.190
just goes to the shelter in act one and


00:41:37.200 --> 00:41:39.270
he let's say there's a young guy, a hip


00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:41.589
guy, and he's he found a dog, he rescued


00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:43.670
a dog and he's returning a dog and


00:41:43.680 --> 00:41:47.109
that's where Jerry is there for the


00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:50.069
physical exam of his dog. So, he sees


00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:51.829
this guy, maybe he talks to a young guy


00:41:51.839 --> 00:41:55.030
who's who just rescued a dog. And so,


00:41:55.040 --> 00:41:57.349
that's act one. So, you have the


00:41:57.359 --> 00:41:59.109
introduction, the characters in act one,


00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:01.430
including the young guy who ends up


00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:04.550
helping Jerry try to find his dog. You


00:42:04.560 --> 00:42:05.910
have all these supporting characters


00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:09.510
that you've created. Uh, and to try to


00:42:09.520 --> 00:42:12.150
flesh out the backbone of your script.


00:42:12.160 --> 00:42:16.069
Okay. So, you have three. See? So,


00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:18.309
[ __ ] good. Okay. So, you have that.


00:42:18.319 --> 00:42:19.829
So, what's going to happen? The dog is


00:42:19.839 --> 00:42:21.829
going to die. First of all, he's never


00:42:21.839 --> 00:42:25.030
going to see his dog. He was kidnapped.


00:42:25.040 --> 00:42:26.710
Maybe the person, the sick [ __ ] that


00:42:26.720 --> 00:42:28.950
took the dog is gonna jump, just let the


00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:31.190
dog go in some freeway. The dog gets run


00:42:31.200 --> 00:42:34.309
over. So Jerry is fantasizing, not


00:42:34.319 --> 00:42:36.470
fantasizing, but actually having night


00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:38.710
nightmares that this is going to happen


00:42:38.720 --> 00:42:40.390
to his dog. The dog's going to be


00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:42.470
abandoned somewhere in some freeway and


00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:45.589
get run over and uh he'll never see the


00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:47.430
dog again. Or maybe the the person who


00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:48.950
kidnapped the dog is going to get tired


00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:51.190
of the dog and just drop the dog off


00:42:51.200 --> 00:42:53.270
somewhere and the dog is going to end up


00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:55.349
like a hobo dog. You know the homeless


00:42:55.359 --> 00:42:57.910
people who have dogs on the offramp to


00:42:57.920 --> 00:42:59.510
get sympathy so people will donate


00:42:59.520 --> 00:43:02.069
money. Have you seen dogs, Bobby? Have


00:43:02.079 --> 00:43:04.230
you seen dogs on like they're like it's


00:43:04.240 --> 00:43:05.910
so sad, right? They have homeless people


00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:07.510
with their dogs and you feel so badly


00:43:07.520 --> 00:43:09.829
for the dogs. And so Jerry's thinking


00:43:09.839 --> 00:43:11.829
that's going to happen to his dog and if


00:43:11.839 --> 00:43:13.910
he's going to, you know, his dog is


00:43:13.920 --> 00:43:15.430
going to die. He wants to at least be


00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:18.550
with his dog in his dying days. So, man,


00:43:18.560 --> 00:43:20.630
you feel for this character Jerry, don't


00:43:20.640 --> 00:43:23.109
you, Bobby? It's it's like alive in your


00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:26.069
head, right? So, your favorite part is


00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:28.790
coming up the ending. So, what happens?


00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:31.910
So, now, do you want to as the writer,


00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:34.950
do you want to have the dog found? Do


00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:36.790
you want to You definitely don't want to


00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:38.470
do the hand of God, right? Where all of


00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:40.550
a sudden, the dog by miracle is better.


00:43:40.560 --> 00:43:43.190
The dog lives. The dog is fine. The dog


00:43:43.200 --> 00:43:45.750
cured his cancer on his own and the


00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:49.190
dog's okay. And Jerry all of a sudden


00:43:49.200 --> 00:43:51.030
does a scratch off at the lottery of


00:43:51.040 --> 00:43:52.790
some lottery ticket that he found on the


00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:54.630
ground. And he wins a million dollars


00:43:54.640 --> 00:43:56.550
and buys a house and lives happily ever


00:43:56.560 --> 00:43:58.630
after with his dog who now is cancer


00:43:58.640 --> 00:44:00.550
free by miracle. That's not going to


00:44:00.560 --> 00:44:03.990
work. So, you need lots of conflict to


00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:05.910
drive your character-driven story. And


00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:08.069
you have to make it real and believable.


00:44:08.079 --> 00:44:09.829
So, I have not fleshed out the story


00:44:09.839 --> 00:44:11.829
because I just came up with it like an


00:44:11.839 --> 00:44:15.030
hour ago. Um, if it lived in my head and


00:44:15.040 --> 00:44:16.950
I've really cared about the characters


00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:19.510
and I really cared about the story, if I


00:44:19.520 --> 00:44:20.950
really cared, I wouldn't be giving it


00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:22.790
away for free, right? But it's just an


00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:26.230
example so you can see how to do it. So,


00:44:26.240 --> 00:44:28.309
remember, you insert something at the


00:44:28.319 --> 00:44:30.470
beginning of the story where it's going


00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:33.829
to help the main character overcome. So,


00:44:33.839 --> 00:44:37.030
what is the bad guy, the antagonist?


00:44:37.040 --> 00:44:39.430
You have more than one in the story, my


00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:42.870
dog. You have the scenario where the dog


00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:45.349
is dying of cancer. Okay, that's a


00:44:45.359 --> 00:44:47.349
horrible scenario and he's going to be


00:44:47.359 --> 00:44:49.190
left all alone in the world without his


00:44:49.200 --> 00:44:51.990
beloved dog. What a [ __ ] a


00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:54.470
antagonist. Another antagonist is a


00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:56.390
situation where he's mentally


00:44:56.400 --> 00:44:58.309
challenged. He's not in the right of


00:44:58.319 --> 00:45:01.589
mind. He can't function on his own. And


00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:03.510
that's a huge antagonist that he has to


00:45:03.520 --> 00:45:05.670
overcome that. And he won't overcome


00:45:05.680 --> 00:45:08.550
that. But you see him living through the


00:45:08.560 --> 00:45:11.750
circumstances while he is the way he is.


00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:13.990
Okay? Just like in Rainman. Rainman


00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:16.470
never overcame the problems he has. He


00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:18.230
just lived through it. And you see him


00:45:18.240 --> 00:45:20.309
living through it and dealing with other


00:45:20.319 --> 00:45:23.030
characters in the movie the way he is.


00:45:23.040 --> 00:45:25.190
Just like Jerry's going to have to deal


00:45:25.200 --> 00:45:27.349
with his challenges mentally and all


00:45:27.359 --> 00:45:29.910
that. So another bad guy is obviously


00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.230
this person, the sick [ __ ] who stole the


00:45:32.240 --> 00:45:34.630
[ __ ] dog, right? So he's going to


00:45:34.640 --> 00:45:37.589
have to get his. So that bad person


00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:40.550
either has to get killed or Jerry's


00:45:40.560 --> 00:45:43.270
going to find him and punch him out


00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:45.750
somehow or maybe the young guy from the


00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:48.390
shelter who helped him out later, you


00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:50.550
know, you know, punches out the


00:45:50.560 --> 00:45:53.190
kidnapper. Something has to happen where


00:45:53.200 --> 00:45:55.670
there's a final confrontation


00:45:55.680 --> 00:45:57.349
and you know Jerry's not going to


00:45:57.359 --> 00:45:59.190
confront his mental challenges because


00:45:59.200 --> 00:46:01.270
that's not going away. He's going to


00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:04.550
confront the kidnappers, right? the


00:46:04.560 --> 00:46:07.190
people who kidnapped the dog. And you


00:46:07.200 --> 00:46:09.030
know it's going to end good. It's going


00:46:09.040 --> 00:46:11.589
to end well because I want Bobby to be


00:46:11.599 --> 00:46:13.589
happy who's watching this movie. He's


00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:15.670
nodding vehemently


00:46:15.680 --> 00:46:20.630
and I want everyone else to be happy.


00:46:20.640 --> 00:46:22.630
Arresty, are you listening? This is good


00:46:22.640 --> 00:46:24.230
[ __ ] right here. Okay, you're not going


00:46:24.240 --> 00:46:26.390
to get this on TED talk. Okay, but you


00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:28.150
have reruns you guys can watch over and


00:46:28.160 --> 00:46:30.710
over. Okay.


00:46:30.720 --> 00:46:32.710
So,


00:46:32.720 --> 00:46:34.470
you're going to have the kidnapper get


00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:36.710
his cuz everybody who's watching,


00:46:36.720 --> 00:46:38.710
including Bobby and all his friends,


00:46:38.720 --> 00:46:41.349
they paid for popcorn. They they drove


00:46:41.359 --> 00:46:43.030
all the way to the theater, you know?


00:46:43.040 --> 00:46:45.030
They worked their asses off during in


00:46:45.040 --> 00:46:47.109
their careers, and they want to have a


00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:49.030
good time. They want to see this [ __ ]


00:46:49.040 --> 00:46:52.710
kidnapper get his, right? Okay. So, but


00:46:52.720 --> 00:46:54.550
not by the hand of God because, you


00:46:54.560 --> 00:46:56.870
know, Jerry can't do it himself. So, you


00:46:56.880 --> 00:46:58.950
have this young guy or maybe the young


00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:01.349
guy's girlfriend when they were rescuing


00:47:01.359 --> 00:47:04.069
a dog at the shelter, they met Jerry,


00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:06.870
they saw Jerry's dog. Oh, you're Oh, how


00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:10.230
cute. We found this dog and we're It's a


00:47:10.240 --> 00:47:12.710
rescue. We just rescued this dog. We're


00:47:12.720 --> 00:47:14.950
sending it to the pound to see if maybe


00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:17.430
the owner will retrieve the dog and they


00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:19.750
meet Jerry's dog and Jerry's dog doesn't


00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:21.670
get along with their rescue dog. All


00:47:21.680 --> 00:47:24.470
kinds of [ __ ] So maybe Jerry's dog is


00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:27.670
the sweetest, most loving, wonderful


00:47:27.680 --> 00:47:30.870
dog. Happens to be dying of cancer. But


00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:35.589
maybe Jerry's dog is a [ __ ] killer.


00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:39.349
Maybe Jerry's dog is a killer who just,


00:47:39.359 --> 00:47:41.750
you know, when he sees the wrong color,


00:47:41.760 --> 00:47:44.230
like the Hulk sees green and gets angry.


00:47:44.240 --> 00:47:47.349
Maybe Jerry's dog has a trigger and that


00:47:47.359 --> 00:47:49.190
trigger turns him into a sweet loving


00:47:49.200 --> 00:47:52.950
dog straight into a killer and maybe


00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:56.390
that is what helps Jerry's dog get away


00:47:56.400 --> 00:47:59.510
from the kidnappers or maybe in the end


00:47:59.520 --> 00:48:02.069
the final confrontation end of act two


00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:04.390
somehow you have to remember something


00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:06.630
in the beginning some tool or instrument


00:48:06.640 --> 00:48:09.670
that that writer put come back because


00:48:09.680 --> 00:48:11.670
Jerry can't do it by himself he cannot


00:48:11.680 --> 00:48:13.750
overcome the antagonist the kidnapper


00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:15.670
Er, the kidnapper's out there in a big


00:48:15.680 --> 00:48:17.829
city with his dog. How the [ __ ] is he


00:48:17.839 --> 00:48:19.990
going to find his dog? How is he going


00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:21.670
to do that? It's such a great [ __ ]


00:48:21.680 --> 00:48:23.990
story I came up with an hour ago. I must


00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:26.630
be a [ __ ] genius, right?


00:48:26.640 --> 00:48:28.230
How is it going to happen? Well, the


00:48:28.240 --> 00:48:30.150
tool that you inserted as a writer at


00:48:30.160 --> 00:48:32.150
the beginning, maybe the young guy at


00:48:32.160 --> 00:48:35.990
the shelter that Jerry met, maybe uh the


00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:38.630
some kind of uh idiosyncrasy the dog


00:48:38.640 --> 00:48:40.950
has, Jerry's dog, he turns into a wild


00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:44.309
animal at the sight of blood or the


00:48:44.319 --> 00:48:46.870
kidnapper is bleeding or has a band-aid


00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:49.109
and takes it off and Jerry's dog sees


00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:51.910
the blood and goes crazy. Um, something


00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:55.750
happens where Jerry is helped and it's


00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:58.390
helped and it it ends up where the final


00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:02.309
confrontation where Jerry gets his dog


00:49:02.319 --> 00:49:04.790
back at least


00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:08.230
see his dog die in his arms at least in


00:49:08.240 --> 00:49:10.230
a peaceful way. They get to stare at


00:49:10.240 --> 00:49:12.309
each other's face and Jerry's dog gets


00:49:12.319 --> 00:49:14.069
to lick Jerry's face one last time


00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:16.710
before he closes his eyes forever. Sad


00:49:16.720 --> 00:49:18.390
[ __ ] story, but at least the


00:49:18.400 --> 00:49:20.710
kidnappers got [ __ ] up. the kidnappers


00:49:20.720 --> 00:49:22.790
got theirs. They get jailed. Whatever.


00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:24.309
When they get caught, whatever happens


00:49:24.319 --> 00:49:27.510
happens or maybe their car goes out of


00:49:27.520 --> 00:49:29.510
control and goes off the freeway. Of


00:49:29.520 --> 00:49:31.910
course, after Jerry's dog is rescued.


00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:33.670
And so they're you're happy the


00:49:33.680 --> 00:49:36.230
kidnappers got theirs. You're happy they


00:49:36.240 --> 00:49:40.150
didn't succeed in their uh horrible ill


00:49:40.160 --> 00:49:43.190
conduct. Then Jerry gets to be with his


00:49:43.200 --> 00:49:45.109
dog. It's got to be credible. So the


00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:48.710
dog's probably going to end up dying.


00:49:48.720 --> 00:49:52.309
Not probably 100% but at least that you


00:49:52.319 --> 00:49:54.870
get to see that. So I can't wait for


00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:57.109
tomorrow's um master classes on


00:49:57.119 --> 00:49:59.190
overcoming depression and overcoming


00:49:59.200 --> 00:50:01.589
grief. Overcoming grief is in the


00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:03.670
morning and the evening master class on


00:50:03.680 --> 00:50:06.870
overcoming depression. And so I talk a


00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:10.230
lot about um my father dying of cancer


00:50:10.240 --> 00:50:12.630
and everything that I had to go through.


00:50:12.640 --> 00:50:16.790
And that's makes me qualified to uh tell


00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:18.790
people about my experiences, what I went


00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:20.549
through. And hopefully a lot of the


00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:23.910
stuff I've learned to cope and to


00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:26.870
overcome, I can teach. And I think I


00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:28.630
don't think, but I know I can. So that's


00:50:28.640 --> 00:50:30.069
why I'm doing it. If I didn't think I


00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:31.670
would be able to help, I wouldn't do it.


00:50:31.680 --> 00:50:33.510
Just like losing weight. I think I'm


00:50:33.520 --> 00:50:36.710
qualified to talk about that. Oh, okay.


00:50:36.720 --> 00:50:38.549
So, and I'm qualified to talk about this


00:50:38.559 --> 00:50:40.950
even though Rusty I have not made a


00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:43.430
movie. But aren't you happy that I have


00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:45.750
not made a movie because I wouldn't look


00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:47.990
how things happen for a reason. You get


00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:50.950
to listen to me. Enjoy. Pick a topic


00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:53.589
podcast. Funniest podcast. The fastest


00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:54.950
growing podcast in the history of


00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:59.190
YouTube with all the funny stuff.


00:50:59.200 --> 00:51:00.790
Where else would you get comedy in a


00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:04.069
comedy podcast? Okay. So, here let's


00:51:04.079 --> 00:51:05.349
talk about how long have we been going?


00:51:05.359 --> 00:51:06.950
We're going to talk about the best part


00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:10.390
of character character arc. One hour.


00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:13.670
Wonderful. Okay. Character arc. So you


00:51:13.680 --> 00:51:16.390
have a good guy at the beginning of a


00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:19.589
movie arc into a bad selfish


00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:22.309
[ __ ] at the end arcs into a bad


00:51:22.319 --> 00:51:25.270
guy. Or you have a horrible person at


00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:27.910
the beginning of a script and he arcs


00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:30.230
through the obstacles through things


00:51:30.240 --> 00:51:32.390
that happen throughout the story. The


00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:34.470
bad character turns into a good


00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:36.390
character. Just like you have in


00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:39.349
Rainman, Tom Cruz was selfish, didn't


00:51:39.359 --> 00:51:41.430
care about anyone about except himself.


00:51:41.440 --> 00:51:42.950
Even Even his girlfriend didn't like


00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:46.150
him. He arcs into a loving, caring


00:51:46.160 --> 00:51:49.670
person who loves his brother at the end.


00:51:49.680 --> 00:51:52.950
And all he wanted Tom Cruz at the very


00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:55.670
beginning of the movie was money. He


00:51:55.680 --> 00:51:57.750
arcs at the end of the movie. He doesn't


00:51:57.760 --> 00:51:59.910
give a [ __ ] about the money, about the


00:51:59.920 --> 00:52:02.470
will or any of that. He lets his brother


00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:05.430
Rainman, the autistic brother, go back


00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:07.990
to the institution. And even though it


00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:10.230
hurts him, he doesn't do it for the


00:52:10.240 --> 00:52:12.549
money. He lets go of the money because


00:52:12.559 --> 00:52:14.630
it's about principle. It's about loving


00:52:14.640 --> 00:52:16.870
his brother. Look how he [ __ ] arked.


00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:19.109
That was [ __ ] brilliant. Can you


00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:21.030
think of another movie where you love


00:52:21.040 --> 00:52:24.069
the movie and the character was a bad


00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:26.470
son of a [ __ ] at the beginning and then


00:52:26.480 --> 00:52:28.230
you ended up really caring about the


00:52:28.240 --> 00:52:29.990
character by the end. The character


00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:32.150
became, please say you no one, and


00:52:32.160 --> 00:52:34.309
became a wonderful person at the end, a


00:52:34.319 --> 00:52:35.990
caring person. You're like, what the


00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:42.069
that arc was so giant?


00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:45.990
Who? Which one?


00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:48.790
No, it's because you know why? Because


00:52:48.800 --> 00:52:50.549
we're talking about character-driven


00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:52.549
stories. And character-driven stories


00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:54.950
are the best stories where you have a


00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:56.790
simple story like the one we just


00:52:56.800 --> 00:52:59.829
created or I created for you. Simple


00:52:59.839 --> 00:53:03.109
story with very complex characters.


00:53:03.119 --> 00:53:05.750
Jerry is very complex as a character.


00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:08.069
The story is simple. You can make it a


00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:10.470
complex story and it'll be [ __ ] People


00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:12.630
won't like it. It'll be confusing. You


00:53:12.640 --> 00:53:14.150
ever go to a movie and you ask your


00:53:14.160 --> 00:53:15.990
friend what was that? What happened


00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:19.109
there? What? Right. Never. It's happened


00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:21.670
to you haven't watched enough movies.


00:53:21.680 --> 00:53:23.910
So, I'm a movie connoisseur. There are


00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:25.589
so many movies that are really


00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:28.309
complicated because the creator the Oh,


00:53:28.319 --> 00:53:29.829
by the way, you know, YouTube calls the


00:53:29.839 --> 00:53:32.950
owner of the channel the creator.


00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:34.150
[ __ ] love that. I was going to tell


00:53:34.160 --> 00:53:35.589
you that's more than the great Tony


00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:37.750
Rockman. Like, you call me great. The


00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:40.069
creator. [ __ ] You're shortch changing


00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:43.750
me with that great stuff. Okay. So,


00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:46.549
yeah, you have um directors and


00:53:46.559 --> 00:53:48.790
producers and writers who think they're


00:53:48.800 --> 00:53:50.470
really smart and think they're really


00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:52.150
good and they can do whatever they want


00:53:52.160 --> 00:53:53.829
and they write a really complicated


00:53:53.839 --> 00:53:55.589
story where let's say they write a


00:53:55.599 --> 00:53:57.270
story. My dog, they wish they could


00:53:57.280 --> 00:54:00.150
write that [ __ ] And and my dog, okay,


00:54:00.160 --> 00:54:02.230
so he was an accountant and then he


00:54:02.240 --> 00:54:05.190
becomes mentally unstable and then he's


00:54:05.200 --> 00:54:07.430
drinking. Then he's uh got all these


00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:10.230
problems. He didn't pay his taxes. the


00:54:10.240 --> 00:54:13.430
IRS comes after him. His dog is d. It's


00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:16.230
[ __ ] too complicated. You can have a


00:54:16.240 --> 00:54:19.829
main plot, Jerry losing his dog. You can


00:54:19.839 --> 00:54:22.230
have the subplot, the dog gets


00:54:22.240 --> 00:54:24.870
kidnapped. You have the young fella at


00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:27.030
the shelter who befriends Jerry, who


00:54:27.040 --> 00:54:29.910
helps Jerry try to find the dog. You


00:54:29.920 --> 00:54:32.470
have uh you can have the uncle situation


00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:33.990
where the uncle is like, "What the [ __ ]


00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:35.990
Where'd you go? I need to get my monthly


00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:38.150
government check." You can't leave. I


00:54:38.160 --> 00:54:39.750
need to get my check. And the uncle is


00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:41.910
interfering. And maybe maybe the uncle's


00:54:41.920 --> 00:54:44.069
the one who kidnapped the the dog. Oh


00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:46.790
[ __ ] Right. And the uncle the uncle


00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:48.870
needs to get his. What the [ __ ] Just


00:54:48.880 --> 00:54:50.870
taking care of him for some money. Yeah.


00:54:50.880 --> 00:54:52.549
You see how I did that right now? You


00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:55.430
see, as I was talking about the story


00:54:55.440 --> 00:54:57.750
and talking about creating the story, my


00:54:57.760 --> 00:55:00.390
dog in just the last hour and a half


00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:03.430
since I created the very first part of


00:55:03.440 --> 00:55:05.430
just, you know, the skeleton of the


00:55:05.440 --> 00:55:08.069
story. Look how it evolved in my head.


00:55:08.079 --> 00:55:09.750
And I'm talking about story. I'm not


00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:11.829
even thinking, you know, quietly


00:55:11.839 --> 00:55:14.150
contemplating. And we just had the uncle


00:55:14.160 --> 00:55:16.150
the kidnapper. It just, you know, it's


00:55:16.160 --> 00:55:18.549
comes together. Okay. So, you have


00:55:18.559 --> 00:55:20.549
character arc. It's very very important


00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:23.750
to have character arc. So, you have


00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:25.589
character arc in a in an excellent


00:55:25.599 --> 00:55:27.829
movie. You have to have it. You have to


00:55:27.839 --> 00:55:30.790
have a story where you have a character


00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:34.549
um like let's say the uncle the uncle


00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:38.150
Jerry's uncle powerful as [ __ ] right?


00:55:38.160 --> 00:55:40.470
He's the one who's a caregiver. He tells


00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:42.470
Jerry what to do. He curses him out,


00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:45.750
abuses him verbally, maybe physically,


00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:48.230
does whatever. Gets a government check.


00:55:48.240 --> 00:55:50.150
He doesn't deserve any of that.


00:55:50.160 --> 00:55:53.270
Everything's good. Okay. So, he's really


00:55:53.280 --> 00:55:56.390
powerful. What happens to the uncle of


00:55:56.400 --> 00:55:59.349
Jerry's uncle who kidnaps the dog who


00:55:59.359 --> 00:56:02.230
later gets caught? What happens at the


00:56:02.240 --> 00:56:05.990
end? Well, the uncle is [ __ ] He loses


00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:09.190
the house. He loses his freedom, goes to


00:56:09.200 --> 00:56:11.190
jail. So, you have this powerful


00:56:11.200 --> 00:56:13.430
character. I'm I'm giving a weaker


00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:15.589
analogy, but you have basically, you get


00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:17.349
it, a stronger character at the


00:56:17.359 --> 00:56:19.829
beginning, Jerry's uncle become complete


00:56:19.839 --> 00:56:21.990
[ __ ] at the end, giving up, you know,


00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:23.990
being jailed and all that. And then what


00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:25.990
do you have with Jerry at the beginning


00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:28.230
of the story? Even though he's mentally


00:56:28.240 --> 00:56:29.829
challenged and always will be like


00:56:29.839 --> 00:56:31.589
Rainman,


00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:33.589
you have a very weak person who's


00:56:33.599 --> 00:56:35.829
physically abused, verbally abused by


00:56:35.839 --> 00:56:38.150
his uncle, takes that [ __ ] has been


00:56:38.160 --> 00:56:40.470
taking that [ __ ] for a long, long time,


00:56:40.480 --> 00:56:42.630
living with his uncle. He's got nowhere


00:56:42.640 --> 00:56:44.870
else to live. No, nothing, you know,


00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:46.789
really to support himself or anything.


00:56:46.799 --> 00:56:49.910
That's a foregone a long time ago. And


00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:52.150
so he's just very, very weak as a


00:56:52.160 --> 00:56:55.910
character. very very uh weak is arc and


00:56:55.920 --> 00:56:58.549
then he arcs at the end where he becomes


00:56:58.559 --> 00:57:01.430
stronger. He gets his dog back. He has


00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:03.030
strength in the fact that he's going to


00:57:03.040 --> 00:57:06.069
be with his dog and his dog's dying days


00:57:06.079 --> 00:57:08.710
and maybe he finally tells his uncle to


00:57:08.720 --> 00:57:11.829
[ __ ] off and all that time that he was


00:57:11.839 --> 00:57:13.910
scared of his uncle and taking all that


00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:17.109
abuse at the end he's like you know what


00:57:17.119 --> 00:57:19.510
[ __ ] you. You know you could see it


00:57:19.520 --> 00:57:21.510
right? Wasn't that [ __ ] brilliant? I


00:57:21.520 --> 00:57:24.150
even [ __ ] acted for these mother


00:57:24.160 --> 00:57:26.390
Rusty. I [ __ ] love you. And you know


00:57:26.400 --> 00:57:27.829
I mean that with a it's a term of


00:57:27.839 --> 00:57:28.950
endearment when I call you


00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:31.270
[ __ ] It means like you know I


00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:32.789
really love you. I came from the


00:57:32.799 --> 00:57:34.309
projects in New York. I grew up in


00:57:34.319 --> 00:57:36.630
Queens, New York. That's how we used. It


00:57:36.640 --> 00:57:39.270
just means I love you. In fact, ice cube


00:57:39.280 --> 00:57:42.470
at the end of our every concert you tell


00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:45.109
his audience members [ __ ] you and it


00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:47.190
just means I love you. That's what it


00:57:47.200 --> 00:57:51.030
means. Okay. So you have beats, you have


00:57:51.040 --> 00:57:54.150
pacing of of a story of your script, you


00:57:54.160 --> 00:57:55.990
have inserting at the beginning a tool


00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:58.309
that comes back to help the good guy,


00:57:58.319 --> 00:58:01.990
you have all that stuff, and you have


00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:05.349
have one more example.


00:58:05.359 --> 00:58:08.390
Okay. So when you Bobby when you watched


00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:10.549
Alone Together the silent film that came


00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:13.589
out on Friday on our channel exclusively


00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:16.309
on Pick a Topic podcast where you have


00:58:16.319 --> 00:58:19.030
the main character and he's obviously


00:58:19.040 --> 00:58:20.789
mentally challenged because he thinks


00:58:20.799 --> 00:58:23.750
the the doll he's carrying is actual


00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:27.270
baby and he shows you that someone with


00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:30.150
a very very very limited capacity


00:58:30.160 --> 00:58:35.829
mentally is able to love and has so much


00:58:35.839 --> 00:58:38.470
love for this baby who the doll who he


00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:41.109
thinks is a baby. And he never mind that


00:58:41.119 --> 00:58:43.589
the doll's not getting older, not


00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:46.789
growing, not changing because the


00:58:46.799 --> 00:58:49.030
mentally uh the mental character


00:58:49.040 --> 00:58:51.750
mentally unstable mentally, emotionally,


00:58:51.760 --> 00:58:54.309
who's basically has nowhere to live.


00:58:54.319 --> 00:58:55.750
He's living in the park. He's sleeping


00:58:55.760 --> 00:58:58.390
in the park with his baby. He doesn't


00:58:58.400 --> 00:59:01.030
think that way. He thinks of just loving


00:59:01.040 --> 00:59:03.990
his [ __ ] baby. And you can from the


00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:07.190
very beginning of Alone Together, like a


00:59:07.200 --> 00:59:09.670
really short silent film, but people cry


00:59:09.680 --> 00:59:11.510
when they watch it. They get emotional


00:59:11.520 --> 00:59:13.510
because you can see and feel that love


00:59:13.520 --> 00:59:16.470
he has for the baby, can't you?


00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:19.910
Okay. Wasn't that great in that movie?


00:59:19.920 --> 00:59:23.030
Okay. So, in that movie, you have a very


00:59:23.040 --> 00:59:25.190
simple story. Now, it's a short film.


00:59:25.200 --> 00:59:28.390
It's a super short silent film. So, not


00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:30.870
an hour and five minute, an hour and 10


00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:33.349
minute. If it's a silent film, it's an


00:59:33.359 --> 00:59:37.750
hour 10 minutes, hour 15, it does have


00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:40.069
at least one or two subplots. But


00:59:40.079 --> 00:59:42.549
because there's no talking, it goes from


00:59:42.559 --> 00:59:45.109
an hour 30 to an hour 5, hour 10


00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:47.510
minutes, it does not mean it's lacking


00:59:47.520 --> 00:59:49.349
subplots. It's just because there's no


00:59:49.359 --> 00:59:51.910
talking, it's condensed into a shorter


00:59:51.920 --> 00:59:54.230
time. But if you don't have an hour 10


00:59:54.240 --> 00:59:57.109
minute short uh sorry an hour 10 minute


00:59:57.119 --> 00:59:59.990
silent film you have here an 8 and a


01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.710
half minute 9 minute silent film. So


01:00:02.720 --> 01:00:05.990
because it's a short a liveaction short


01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:07.430
we will submit it for the Academy


01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:10.470
Awards. Um what do you have? You have a


01:00:10.480 --> 01:00:13.990
very limited main plot. So the main plot


01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:17.510
is what the main character who has a


01:00:17.520 --> 01:00:20.069
loves his baby has a baby. You have the


01:00:20.079 --> 01:00:22.470
subplot. We can say the subplot is he


01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:25.910
loses his baby. Okay? So you have a very


01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:28.710
limited main plot that's not fleshed out


01:00:28.720 --> 01:00:31.030
because it's a 9-minute short. If it was


01:00:31.040 --> 01:00:34.390
a one-hour silent film, you'd have the


01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:37.109
main character and you'd have other


01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:39.430
conflict driving the character, the


01:00:39.440 --> 01:00:41.510
character-driven story. And you would


01:00:41.520 --> 01:00:44.309
see the subplot of losing the baby would


01:00:44.319 --> 01:00:47.030
be fleshed out in a way that he's


01:00:47.040 --> 01:00:49.829
searching here, searching there, maybe a


01:00:49.839 --> 01:00:51.990
supporting character comes in to help


01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:54.630
the main character try to find the baby.


01:00:54.640 --> 01:00:57.670
Um, all kinds of scenes building up


01:00:57.680 --> 01:01:00.549
fleshing out the one-hour silent film,


01:01:00.559 --> 01:01:02.789
but because it's a short, you don't have


01:01:02.799 --> 01:01:04.789
that. So, you have a very limited main


01:01:04.799 --> 01:01:07.990
plot, the character with his baby, the


01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:10.549
subplot where he loses the baby, and


01:01:10.559 --> 01:01:12.870
then should we give away the end? No, we


01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:15.349
won't. But I think people will enjoy it.


01:01:15.359 --> 01:01:17.430
And we're starting to film the sequel


01:01:17.440 --> 01:01:19.670
next week. Oh, man. Or maybe in a couple


01:01:19.680 --> 01:01:21.510
weeks. We're really busy with our


01:01:21.520 --> 01:01:23.750
material and content, but we are going


01:01:23.760 --> 01:01:26.309
to film or maybe in a we'll put off the


01:01:26.319 --> 01:01:28.630
sequel for a month because we have to


01:01:28.640 --> 01:01:31.349
submit this one. There's so much work to


01:01:31.359 --> 01:01:33.990
do involved with that. So, but we will


01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:35.510
get to it. And Bobby, you're going to be


01:01:35.520 --> 01:01:37.589
filming the next one. Okay. I had Tommy


01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:38.789
do the first one. I'm going to have you


01:01:38.799 --> 01:01:42.470
on the second one, the sequel. Okay. Um,


01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:46.230
let me see. So, I refer all viewers who


01:01:46.240 --> 01:01:48.470
are interested storytelling master class


01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:50.710
for more tips. Now, remember the most


01:01:50.720 --> 01:01:53.829
important thing is you have to have fun.


01:01:53.839 --> 01:01:55.349
You have to have fun with the story


01:01:55.359 --> 01:01:58.150
because most likely the story in most


01:01:58.160 --> 01:02:00.470
cases is not going to be made into the


01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:03.349
next Avatar or Toy Story even though it


01:02:03.359 --> 01:02:06.309
might happen. Belman and Louise, that


01:02:06.319 --> 01:02:09.190
was the very first story that the


01:02:09.200 --> 01:02:12.309
writers wrote. The very first one. Oh,


01:02:12.319 --> 01:02:14.069
[ __ ] It got made into a movie. And even


01:02:14.079 --> 01:02:16.230
Brad Pitt was in it. Who knows? Maybe he


01:02:16.240 --> 01:02:17.589
was the neighbor and they slept with


01:02:17.599 --> 01:02:19.430
them. Like, Brad Pitt, take this movie


01:02:19.440 --> 01:02:21.829
to your managers. And who knows, but


01:02:21.839 --> 01:02:24.230
it's the very first. So people do win


01:02:24.240 --> 01:02:26.470
the lottery and it does happen, but you


01:02:26.480 --> 01:02:29.750
might write your whole life and have one


01:02:29.760 --> 01:02:31.750
made when you're 99 before you kill


01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:34.230
over. You're like, "Oh, my story was


01:02:34.240 --> 01:02:36.950
finally bought." And you kill over and


01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:38.950
um but at least you know you've written


01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:40.710
and you've enjoyed yourself because it's


01:02:40.720 --> 01:02:43.349
all about having fun. It's hard work. It


01:02:43.359 --> 01:02:46.470
takes time. Don't try to write a billion


01:02:46.480 --> 01:02:49.349
dollar script that has elements in the


01:02:49.359 --> 01:02:51.990
film in the script that requires a


01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:55.510
hund00 million budget or a $200 million


01:02:55.520 --> 01:02:58.150
budget. That's not real. So, write a


01:02:58.160 --> 01:03:00.710
character-driven story that does not


01:03:00.720 --> 01:03:04.230
require a big budget. And that is your


01:03:04.240 --> 01:03:06.230
best chance to succeed. Like alone


01:03:06.240 --> 01:03:08.390
together, I think the budget was like


01:03:08.400 --> 01:03:10.470
$2.25,


01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:13.109
right? No, I'm sorry. It was like uh $10


01:03:13.119 --> 01:03:16.549
for the doll. So,


01:03:16.559 --> 01:03:18.630
so very very minimum. Like I had the


01:03:18.640 --> 01:03:22.470
blanket and the the black blanket at the


01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:25.430
end signifying what happens, you know? I


01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:27.670
had all that stuff. So, I had all the


01:03:27.680 --> 01:03:30.870
old sweaters from when I was 400 lb. So,


01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:34.390
I just uh I took a bunch of uh dog food


01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:36.789
and I took all the sweaters and and put


01:03:36.799 --> 01:03:39.029
them in dog food and like put them in


01:03:39.039 --> 01:03:40.870
the dirt. All the sweaters were in the


01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:43.430
dirt. the pants, try to make it real


01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:45.670
authentic, you know, like it's actually


01:03:45.680 --> 01:03:47.510
like a homeless person is wearing these


01:03:47.520 --> 01:03:50.230
clothes. So, the budget was very, very


01:03:50.240 --> 01:03:52.230
limited and that's what you got to do.


01:03:52.240 --> 01:03:53.990
So, how long have I been going? Are you


01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:55.829
bored?


01:03:55.839 --> 01:03:58.630
Hour 15. Are you tired? No, you're doing


01:03:58.640 --> 01:04:01.510
well. Okay. How was the coffee? Okay. I


01:04:01.520 --> 01:04:03.670
think everyone has learned a lot about


01:04:03.680 --> 01:04:05.270
characters. Do you have any other


01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:08.630
questions you want to ask me?


01:04:08.640 --> 01:04:10.150
Um,


01:04:10.160 --> 01:04:11.910
what do you think that? No, I'm [ __ ]


01:04:11.920 --> 01:04:13.910
Mickey. Uh, he didn't. He's not asking.


01:04:13.920 --> 01:04:15.270
I think he went away. I think he was


01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:17.270
mad. Did I say something bad to him? I


01:04:17.280 --> 01:04:20.549
was funny to him, right?


01:04:20.559 --> 01:04:22.630
I'm telling you, arrest something better


01:04:22.640 --> 01:04:24.870
than this. Come on. Can't imagine that.


01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:27.109
All in my imagination. I can't imagine.


01:04:27.119 --> 01:04:28.789
I think I covered character arc,


01:04:28.799 --> 01:04:31.430
fleshing out a story, how to go from act


01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:34.150
one to act two into act three. I talked


01:04:34.160 --> 01:04:35.829
about introduction of characters,


01:04:35.839 --> 01:04:38.710
obstacles, refer back to my storytelling


01:04:38.720 --> 01:04:40.710
class about uh the cat that goes into


01:04:40.720 --> 01:04:43.990
the tree, how it comes back down. Um I


01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:46.230
talked about uh what makes for a great


01:04:46.240 --> 01:04:48.789
film, how to write a script, whether


01:04:48.799 --> 01:04:51.589
it's a sitcom or a TV show. You have to


01:04:51.599 --> 01:04:53.109
have the characters, what kind of


01:04:53.119 --> 01:04:55.270
characters you need to have. I gave away


01:04:55.280 --> 01:04:57.589
the multi-million dollar idea about my


01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:00.390
dog, how I broke it down. I talked about


01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:03.510
our film Alone Together and how I did


01:05:03.520 --> 01:05:06.549
that and what made it compelling and I


01:05:06.559 --> 01:05:08.069
think I discussed pretty much everything


01:05:08.079 --> 01:05:13.270
I I wanted to do in the coming arc. Um


01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:16.150
how to overcome the bad guy or bad


01:05:16.160 --> 01:05:18.549
situation or antagonist at the end of


01:05:18.559 --> 01:05:21.190
act two. I broke it down what makes


01:05:21.200 --> 01:05:24.470
great characters. Uh audience members


01:05:24.480 --> 01:05:26.390
what do they love about characters the


01:05:26.400 --> 01:05:30.150
most? Um we talked about that. Now, our


01:05:30.160 --> 01:05:32.950
um entire master class today will have


01:05:32.960 --> 01:05:35.190
timestamps and chapters where you can go


01:05:35.200 --> 01:05:36.789
review if you haven't written this stuff


01:05:36.799 --> 01:05:39.910
down, which I think uh Arresty did for


01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:43.109
sure. And I just love the fact that


01:05:43.119 --> 01:05:45.270
Arresty is a big fan. And I know we have


01:05:45.280 --> 01:05:48.630
hundreds of hundreds of fans watching. I


01:05:48.640 --> 01:05:50.950
would like more of you guys to interact


01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:53.510
and to ask questions. Tomorrow we have


01:05:53.520 --> 01:05:55.430
the depression overcoming depression


01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:57.829
master class that will help a lot of


01:05:57.839 --> 01:06:00.150
people. We'll have the overcoming grief


01:06:00.160 --> 01:06:02.549
master class. Do you want know where why


01:06:02.559 --> 01:06:05.029
I wanted to do the grief one, Bobby? So,


01:06:05.039 --> 01:06:07.589
yesterday I was running the 5K at the


01:06:07.599 --> 01:06:10.069
end of the 5K. This girl was running


01:06:10.079 --> 01:06:13.589
next to me and uh good-looking lady in


01:06:13.599 --> 01:06:17.510
her 40s and first thing I thought was,


01:06:17.520 --> 01:06:19.270
"Is my wife ever going to find out about


01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:21.270
her?" No, that wasn't my first thought.


01:06:21.280 --> 01:06:23.589
My first thought was what she had


01:06:23.599 --> 01:06:26.470
everything good. She told me right away


01:06:26.480 --> 01:06:28.069
she's starting. She's running next to me


01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:30.390
and she's doing a 10K. So, she was about


01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:32.390
to I was about to finish my 5K and she


01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:33.670
was about to turn around and do the


01:06:33.680 --> 01:06:36.710
second half of her 10K and she told me


01:06:36.720 --> 01:06:39.349
that her father just passed away. So,


01:06:39.359 --> 01:06:41.910
Bobby, I'm not making this up. So, I


01:06:41.920 --> 01:06:44.069
thought, "Oh, shit." So, I I'm running


01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:45.829
and we're having a conversation. I know


01:06:45.839 --> 01:06:46.950
you're thinking, "Wow, this


01:06:46.960 --> 01:06:48.470
cardiovascular system is really good."


01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:50.630
He's having a conversation with this gal


01:06:50.640 --> 01:06:52.630
and I'm telling her how my father passed


01:06:52.640 --> 01:06:54.230
away so many years ago. I don't remember


01:06:54.240 --> 01:06:55.910
what he sounds like. I had to watch the


01:06:55.920 --> 01:06:58.630
video to remember. And she starts crying


01:06:58.640 --> 01:07:00.870
while she's running and she's crying and


01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:03.910
telling me how she misses her dad. And I


01:07:03.920 --> 01:07:05.829
told her that her dad was very lucky to


01:07:05.839 --> 01:07:08.309
have such a wonderful daughter as she


01:07:08.319 --> 01:07:11.109
was. And she just was starting to blow


01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:13.349
kisses at me. And I'm thinking at this


01:07:13.359 --> 01:07:14.710
time, at this point, I'm thinking I have


01:07:14.720 --> 01:07:16.710
a chance with her. No, I'm just joking.


01:07:16.720 --> 01:07:19.109
I'm thinking, wow, she's in pain and she


01:07:19.119 --> 01:07:21.349
needs something. So I told her what she


01:07:21.359 --> 01:07:23.349
needs. the best thing for her is to find


01:07:23.359 --> 01:07:25.670
a support group to find people to talk


01:07:25.680 --> 01:07:27.750
to and I'm tell I'm telling her that's


01:07:27.760 --> 01:07:30.390
what helped me that I didn't take to uh


01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:32.069
like I didn't tell her this part but a


01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:34.230
lot of people take to alcohol or drugs


01:07:34.240 --> 01:07:35.750
but we're going to talk about all of


01:07:35.760 --> 01:07:38.230
that tomorrow but the very best thing


01:07:38.240 --> 01:07:40.549
you can do to overcome and I don't know


01:07:40.559 --> 01:07:43.190
why I'm doing it now but is to talk it


01:07:43.200 --> 01:07:44.789
out and that's what I told her you need


01:07:44.799 --> 01:07:47.910
to talk it out and so she just [ __ ]


01:07:47.920 --> 01:07:49.910
loved me she was like slapping hands as


01:07:49.920 --> 01:07:52.309
she went by when she turned around and


01:07:52.319 --> 01:07:54.390
then I thought, well, I don't even know


01:07:54.400 --> 01:07:56.710
her name. I would love to have told her.


01:07:56.720 --> 01:07:58.309
I didn't even look at her the number on


01:07:58.319 --> 01:07:59.910
her racing bib. I could have looked her


01:07:59.920 --> 01:08:02.870
up and told her to watch the watch the


01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:04.789
master class tomorrow. But I know it's


01:08:04.799 --> 01:08:06.870
going to help a lot of people who have


01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:09.270
perhaps uh unfortunately gone through a


01:08:09.280 --> 01:08:12.390
a tragedy and lost someone. And so the


01:08:12.400 --> 01:08:14.150
grief, overcoming grief is tomorrow


01:08:14.160 --> 01:08:16.309
morning. It's already being promoted on


01:08:16.319 --> 01:08:18.309
the channel. And overcoming depression


01:08:18.319 --> 01:08:20.229
tomorrow night. I hope you guys enjoy


01:08:20.239 --> 01:08:22.630
it. I hope you guys got something out of


01:08:22.640 --> 01:08:24.709
script writing master class tonight. I


01:08:24.719 --> 01:08:26.070
think you did. I think you learned


01:08:26.080 --> 01:08:28.630
things that you didn't know. And God,


01:08:28.640 --> 01:08:30.709
we're ready for our hot dogs, aren't we?


01:08:30.719 --> 01:08:33.269
Got some barbecue hot dogs that my my


01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:36.229
wife was uh barbecuing. Don't just don't


01:08:36.239 --> 01:08:37.910
say she's wonderful when you get your


01:08:37.920 --> 01:08:40.390
hot dogs. Okay. She's going to give me a


01:08:40.400 --> 01:08:42.550
hard time with that. Yeah, I know you


01:08:42.560 --> 01:08:45.189
love my wife. I do too. And she was very


01:08:45.199 --> 01:08:47.510
supportive today because last night I'm


01:08:47.520 --> 01:08:50.390
going to end with this. Last night I


01:08:50.400 --> 01:08:52.390
said I asked her and usually she's not


01:08:52.400 --> 01:08:54.550
my muse. Sometimes she's a little


01:08:54.560 --> 01:08:56.789
negative. So it's the opposite of my


01:08:56.799 --> 01:08:58.950
muse. Most of the time she does not


01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:01.430
encourage me in a way that I would like.


01:09:01.440 --> 01:09:03.829
But she did last night and I really love


01:09:03.839 --> 01:09:05.669
that. And this morning she even was in


01:09:05.679 --> 01:09:08.309
the chat saying I'm great. Love that.


01:09:08.319 --> 01:09:10.709
God now I have to stay with her. Right.


01:09:10.719 --> 01:09:13.910
And so I asked her what do you think is


01:09:13.920 --> 01:09:15.990
a a little strange because I have a


01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:18.229
comedy podcast. We started with really


01:09:18.239 --> 01:09:21.189
funny jokes, like literally hundreds and


01:09:21.199 --> 01:09:23.590
hundreds of original unique jokes no


01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:25.910
one's ever heard. And we got up to over


01:09:25.920 --> 01:09:28.149
300,000 subscribers and all these comedy


01:09:28.159 --> 01:09:31.189
podcasts that people enjoy. And so now


01:09:31.199 --> 01:09:33.189
I'm doing, you know, master classes to


01:09:33.199 --> 01:09:35.349
help people in their lives. And she


01:09:35.359 --> 01:09:37.269
said, "No, it's not strange at all


01:09:37.279 --> 01:09:39.829
because you're called pick a topic. You


01:09:39.839 --> 01:09:41.669
have different topics. Sometimes the


01:09:41.679 --> 01:09:44.309
topic is funny. You do a funny show and


01:09:44.319 --> 01:09:45.990
it's depending on the topic." And that's


01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:48.390
why today, if you notice, I started with


01:09:48.400 --> 01:09:51.590
it's pick a topic. Today's topic was


01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:53.510
script writing. Today's topic was what


01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:55.270
the [ __ ] did we do in the morning? Oh,


01:09:55.280 --> 01:09:57.590
cold calling, right? So, I started from


01:09:57.600 --> 01:10:00.229
her idea. It's a topic. So, she helped


01:10:00.239 --> 01:10:03.669
me with that. So, oh my gosh, so good.


01:10:03.679 --> 01:10:05.590
I've earned it. We've talked for well,


01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:07.669
I've talked for a long time. Feel like


01:10:07.679 --> 01:10:10.229
I'm on a date, right? Girl doesn't want


01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:11.910
to go out with me again. I talk too


01:10:11.920 --> 01:10:13.669
much. I should have asked about her.


01:10:13.679 --> 01:10:15.910
Damn. Okay, it's a good thing my wife


01:10:15.920 --> 01:10:17.669
was on the rebound when she met me. I


01:10:17.679 --> 01:10:19.030
could have just talked all night and she


01:10:19.040 --> 01:10:20.310
didn't care. She was going with me no


01:10:20.320 --> 01:10:23.750
matter what. And um so yeah, I hope this


01:10:23.760 --> 01:10:26.550
lady that I was running next to is uh


01:10:26.560 --> 01:10:28.790
you know heals in time. It takes time.


01:10:28.800 --> 01:10:30.870
It took me a good two three years to


01:10:30.880 --> 01:10:34.310
overcome um the depression and all that.


01:10:34.320 --> 01:10:36.870
And uh you know it took my mom a lot


01:10:36.880 --> 01:10:38.470
longer and she went through a lot of


01:10:38.480 --> 01:10:40.790
things that she perhaps shouldn't have.


01:10:40.800 --> 01:10:42.470
It's all going to be talked about


01:10:42.480 --> 01:10:45.430
tomorrow morning in full detail. It's


01:10:45.440 --> 01:10:49.350
guaranteed to help people. And uh truly


01:10:49.360 --> 01:10:51.270
thank you for watching a script writing


01:10:51.280 --> 01:10:53.350
master class tonight. I hope you enjoyed


01:10:53.360 --> 01:10:55.990
it. I hope you got everything out of it.


01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:58.390
I want to give a special shout out to


01:10:58.400 --> 01:11:01.510
Arusty. You are truly one of the best


01:11:01.520 --> 01:11:04.470
fans anyone can have. And we would even


01:11:04.480 --> 01:11:08.470
consider having Arresty as a moderator.


01:11:08.480 --> 01:11:10.470
But you know what? Oh, I'm sorry. Okay,


01:11:10.480 --> 01:11:13.510
there's no R. Assess. Assess steel. I'm


01:11:13.520 --> 01:11:15.430
saying it wrong. Assess steel. I want to


01:11:15.440 --> 01:11:17.510
get it right. Assess steel. Okay, that's


01:11:17.520 --> 01:11:19.830
better. Assess steel. Thank you very


01:11:19.840 --> 01:11:22.950
much. Project Hail Mary. Oh, so is that


01:11:22.960 --> 01:11:24.950
the title of a of movie you're writing?


01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:27.910
I like that. Project Hail Mary.


01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:30.149
Sometimes when you have a title of a


01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:35.270
movie, you don't want to let


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Oh, is that Oh, okay. So, that's a


01:11:37.360 --> 01:11:39.270
movie. You can tell I'm really old,


01:11:39.280 --> 01:11:41.910
right? Don't nod at that one. You have


01:11:41.920 --> 01:11:44.790
to say you have No. Okay. So, it's a


01:11:44.800 --> 01:11:56.149
movie about what?


01:11:56.159 --> 01:11:57.669
What happened to your log line? That was


01:11:57.679 --> 01:12:00.950
so long. Did you watch it?


01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:03.430
Was it good?


01:12:03.440 --> 01:12:05.110
You're like my wife. When I ask her to


01:12:05.120 --> 01:12:06.709
like summarize something, she goes on


01:12:06.719 --> 01:12:07.990
forever. I'm like, "Oh my god, just


01:12:08.000 --> 01:12:13.189
summarize it quick."


01:12:13.199 --> 01:12:16.149
Okay, it doesn't sound that great.


01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:19.350
Really? It's that good. So,


01:12:19.360 --> 01:12:21.510
oh [ __ ] maybe I should go see it. So,


01:12:21.520 --> 01:12:23.910
the best part was I haven't seen it, but


01:12:23.920 --> 01:12:26.310
I bet you you uh you related to the


01:12:26.320 --> 01:12:31.590
character.


01:12:31.600 --> 01:12:33.189
You had the supporting character. You


01:12:33.199 --> 01:12:35.189
had the dog


01:12:35.199 --> 01:12:37.350
who was an alien. Okay. But the alien


01:12:37.360 --> 01:12:38.790
was someone that was talking. You like


01:12:38.800 --> 01:12:41.830
the alien.


01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:43.910
You see that? So you have charact is


01:12:43.920 --> 01:12:45.750
character driven, right? Even though


01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:47.669
it's a big budget and all that,


01:12:47.679 --> 01:12:49.669
everything is okay. The lights blinking.


01:12:49.679 --> 01:12:52.229
This red light here on the camera.


01:12:52.239 --> 01:12:55.510
>> It's okay. So you have characters that


01:12:55.520 --> 01:12:57.990
you like or you love or you want them to


01:12:58.000 --> 01:12:59.830
succeed. You wanted them to succeed in


01:12:59.840 --> 01:13:02.709
the movie, right? That you you see how


01:13:02.719 --> 01:13:04.950
the writer did that? The writer of that


01:13:04.960 --> 01:13:07.430
movie, Project Hail Mary,


01:13:07.440 --> 01:13:09.910
before he started writing, he knew how


01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:11.590
it was going to end because he


01:13:11.600 --> 01:13:14.070
envisioned it. He envisioned the ending


01:13:14.080 --> 01:13:15.510
and he went to the beginning. What did


01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:21.030
he do? What's the first thing he did?


01:13:21.040 --> 01:13:23.830
No. The writer who wrote the movie,


01:13:23.840 --> 01:13:26.550
Project Hail Mary, outline.


01:13:26.560 --> 01:13:32.070
Outline.


01:13:32.080 --> 01:13:34.709
Oh, it was adapted. Okay. So, it was not


01:13:34.719 --> 01:13:36.870
his original idea, but still. So, even


01:13:36.880 --> 01:13:39.030
though it's adapted from a story, it


01:13:39.040 --> 01:13:41.510
could be a story by the producer,


01:13:41.520 --> 01:13:43.750
director, and the writer still has to do


01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:45.189
the same thing. The writer still has to


01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:48.149
know the ending. Outline, you go to


01:13:48.159 --> 01:13:50.070
outline. Even if you adapt it or someone


01:13:50.080 --> 01:13:51.990
tells you the story, it's inspired by a


01:13:52.000 --> 01:13:54.470
story. Same thing. Rough outline,


01:13:54.480 --> 01:13:57.110
detailed outline, you go to script, you


01:13:57.120 --> 01:13:59.270
flesh it out, and then you just write


01:13:59.280 --> 01:14:02.630
the script. Then you go to uh first the


01:14:02.640 --> 01:14:05.030
first scene the you already know how


01:14:05.040 --> 01:14:06.229
it's going to go. You know how the


01:14:06.239 --> 01:14:08.149
scenes are going to go the introduction


01:14:08.159 --> 01:14:10.630
of the characters hook into act two and


01:14:10.640 --> 01:14:12.950
you know all this stuff. So one last


01:14:12.960 --> 01:14:15.830
thing project Hail Mary steel tell me.


01:14:15.840 --> 01:14:17.510
So Bobby I'm going to ask you and maybe


01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:20.550
he won't reply. I hope he does. So now


01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:22.870
that I told you where the magic is,


01:14:22.880 --> 01:14:24.709
where the formula where it act goes into


01:14:24.719 --> 01:14:26.310
act three, you have the final


01:14:26.320 --> 01:14:28.870
confrontation at the end of act two and


01:14:28.880 --> 01:14:30.550
then once the final confrontation is


01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:32.790
over, there's a little pause. Maybe the


01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:34.709
screen goes black and then it's the


01:14:34.719 --> 01:14:36.550
start of act three with the start of the


01:14:36.560 --> 01:14:38.550
resolution. Do you know exactly where


01:14:38.560 --> 01:14:41.750
that part was? There you go. Before I


01:14:41.760 --> 01:14:44.390
talked about going into act three, did


01:14:44.400 --> 01:14:45.830
you know that was the beginning of act


01:14:45.840 --> 01:14:48.470
three? Cuz you went to film school.


01:14:48.480 --> 01:14:50.950
Well, no duh. Okay, but most people


01:14:50.960 --> 01:14:52.390
don't know that. Did you know about


01:14:52.400 --> 01:14:55.430
hooking into Act Two? Film school really


01:14:55.440 --> 01:14:57.189
teaches you. It really is one of the


01:14:57.199 --> 01:15:01.270
best film schools in the country.


01:15:01.280 --> 01:15:06.310
Okay. So, I was boring you today.


01:15:06.320 --> 01:15:07.669
Was there anything new you learned


01:15:07.679 --> 01:15:09.430
tonight since you so you know all this


01:15:09.440 --> 01:15:11.750
[ __ ]


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that you didn't know? I'm sure there was


01:15:13.440 --> 01:15:17.189
a few.


01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:19.350
There you go. That's something you have


01:15:19.360 --> 01:15:21.430
to make a character likable otherwise


01:15:21.440 --> 01:15:24.470
you got nothing. Thank you all tonight.


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Pick a topic podcast. We're coming back


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