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Our next (next) (next?) episode is on Magnolia — what should we talk about?
🕑 Added 2023-03-20 17:31:41 +0000 UTCThanks for your questions on Almost Famous! That episode will be out early next month, after which we'll be taking a look at Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia! What are some topics or aspects of the film you’d want us to discuss? Let us know in the comments below, and upvote ones you agree with!
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Keith Moser
What is the best way to write a prologue opening and why is it a Ricky Jay voiced narration? 😂
Lukas Ridge
My teacher in college used to challenge students to write an exciting logline for Magnolia. I would love to hear the group try and maybe discuss how to pitch a sprawling epic like this.
Felipe Fonseca
How a script can incorporate song choices when the screenwriter is not the director?
Jack Payne
I’ve always felt the biggest reason audiences bump on the frogs and the sing-a-long is that the movie hangs it’s entire climax upon these moments, after spending its previous two hours and change implicitly setting up and driving towards the culminative moment when it’s disparate stories collide. Finally doing so with such surreal fixtures really only made sense of through symptomatic reading is dissatisfying popularly. It’s not solid enough ground to stick the landing upon.
Jack Payne
This. All of the character arcs rely crucially on the same collective thematic foundations, each registering more fully drawn than perhaps they really are because of it.
What are the best paths to introducing surreality to otherwise ground dramas? Things like the frogs and sing a long can be sticking points for people. How can you know when its the right choice?
Stephen Shutters
Frogs. Just frogs.
Could there be a thing such as a "Collective Character Arc"?
