Just listening to a YouTube clip with the brillaint Linda Seger - read some of her books if you haven't - she is really one of the best.
and in it she revisits that old nugget - writing a screenplay is like architecting a building.
Sure.
But what building is it exactly? Just a little game which I think might help envision the finished project:
Avatar would be a future high tech green building, mabye biogenically enginneered from a tree (and people are envisioing this type of building at the moment).
The Hurt Locker might be the destroyed ruins of Uruk (the first ever city, it's ruins in present day Iraq).
Taken would be a dark labyrinth, with the daughter in the place of the minotaur.
The Bourne Series might be a mirror maze
Juno would be what - an empty school?
Mine's a definite old school Cathedral.
So what building is your screenplay?
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