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- Path: sparky!uunet!well!rchao
- From: rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)
- Subject: kill your darlings
- Message-ID: <BxF9p5.E2v@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:07:53 GMT
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- a common screenplay saying is "kill your darlings," which means, eliminate
- anything in your script that is not essential to the plot.
- Aren't there some great films that have scenes that are not essential?
- What do you think of these:
- In Star Wars, there is a scene where Luke and Leia are separated from
- Han and Chewie, so that Luke swings over the bridge and Han runs around
- shooting. The thing is, afterwards, aren't they right back to where they
- started? Don't these scenes not make the story progress?
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- In the Godfather, what about the horse's head scene? Does that move
- the story forward? or is it necessary to develop characters?
-
- did you know that a great scene was cut from Annie Hall because it
- wasn't essential? it was Woody making friends with some guys in jail.
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- Robert Chao
- Oakland, California
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