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Post #250987

Author
Obi Jeewhyen
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Favorite Star Wars Movie
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Date created
12-Oct-2006, 3:16 PM
Keeping two identical scenes in a row because you like them makes you a dismal failure as a filmmaker and an editor.

Stay out of the movie-making business, Go-Mer. The reason that's Screenwriting 101 is because it's the most basic rule of pacing and filmmaking. Do not bore the audience with the same information in two nearby scenes (and preferably not at all). No matter how much you like both scenes, if you were stupid enough to write them both and dumb enough to shoot them both, your last chance to be smart is to leave one of them on the cutting room floor.

Ahem, Star Wars '77 demonstrates normal filmmaking competence in this. George '97 proved himself a lametard old fart.


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