Scenes as concepts

In the world of screenwriting the word CONCEPT is usually associated with the general idea of the movie. Once the CONCEPT is in place, scenes are then created to help tell the story.

IDEALLY, the writer must come up with as many entertaining scenes as s/he can, scenes designed not only to further the story but INTRINSICALLY entertain us as well. But the predominant attitude appears to be one of getting by, plodding along by way of one SUPPORTIVE or TRANSITIONAL scene after another, preparing for that one humdinger just around the corner.

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