One last quibble with the movie...

They seriously couldn't find a better Jack Nicholson impersonator??? Fer real? He was awful. Didn't sound like him at all and barely looked like him.

That scene started to feel magical to me and then he opened his mouth and it ruined everything.

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Anyway!! I have done these things professionally while editing manuscripts for people! I also do developmental editing, which is basically the same thing but *before* the story is released into the world. And I'm available for work! Book coaching and ghostwriting, too! lol

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McKee's book (Story) uses parts of famous movies to demonstrate the ideas he's expressing. Here's how The Godfather created a values shift in the horse head scene, here's how The Big Lebowski is an example of an antiplot, etc.

I would break down an entire movie. Here's the inciting incident and why its timing good, here's establishing a character arc, this is where the theme is being reinforced.

A holistic look.

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I really love to analyze movies and shows, at many levels of the craft: plot, theme, character development. Being sick so long, it's one of the few brainy activities I could do passively, and a way to practice my writing skills without being able to write.

I could see myself building a niche using film analysis as a vector for teaching narrative skills, along the vein of and in the school of Robert McKee.

People could watch the movie, then read the analysis written or videoed with an eye toward developing skills. Here is what they did right and why, this is how they could have done better.

Alas, I've already got my niches. And while my health has improved, I'm not exactly well yet. If ever.

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This movie actually has good bones. It could have been an excellent movie. Great sets, interesting ideas and characters, visceral motifs, decent writing and acting.

But the editing continues to be bad. Simple cutting room floor decisions. Pacing. Transitions. The order of scenes.

It's a shame.

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