This is my favorite principle in Blake Snyder’s (RIP) excellent screenwriting book Save The Cat. It’s basically saying that you are allowed one piece of unexplainable bullshit (aka magic) in your script. You can repeat that, or expand on that within the story, but at no point do you add anything…
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What Could Have Been of the Day: Following yesterday’s never-before-seen Back to the Future footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly, another bit of alternate history has surfaced: The infamous “fading family photo” from part 1, with Stoltz instead of Michael J. Fox.
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Earlier: MJF re-shoots the BTTF teaser trailer for the Scream Awards.
UPDATE: Compare with the final photo.
(Source: thedailywhat)
55 Years Ago tonight…
Lighting Struck the Hill Valley Courhouse Clock Tower.
Never Forget.
When you meet TOM WILSON (Biff Tannen from BACK TO THE FUTURE) and start asking him questions he gives you an autographed picture of himself with these answers on the back.
Tom is awesome, nice and a great artist.
Click to listen to him on the NERDIST PODCAST (tune into BBC AMERICA for the show this saturday. PLUG!)
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