A Good Film Script Should Be Able

We're All Put To The Test... But It Never Comes In The Form Or At The Point We Would Prefer, Does It?

You Got An All-out Prize Fight, You Wait 'til The Fight's Over, One Guy's Left Standing And That's How You Know Who's Won.

Consider: For All The Gobbledegook [film Studio] Executives Spout About Backstory, All That We, The Audience, Want To Know Is What Happens Next. That's The Only Thing That's Going On. . . . Character Is Nothing Other Than Action, And Character-driven Means The Plot Stinks, And You'd Better Hope The Star Is Popular Enough To Open The Movie In Spite Of It.

If You Find That A Point Cannot Be Made Without Narration, It Is Virtually Certain That The Point Is Unimportant To The Story (which Is To Say, To The Audience).

You Get Rich Through Luck. You Get Rich Through Crime. You Get Rich Through Fulfilling The Needs Of Another. You Can Be As Greedy As You Like. If You Can’t Do One Of Those Three Things, You Ain’t Going To Get Any Money.