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Movie Diagrams

As I’ve said, you should write your own diagrams. That being the case, you might as well have these, which I just happened to have sitting around. Please don’t check every scene and page number to make sure I’ve correctly described them; you’d only be missing the point. I wrote them to help myself research and write comedy screenplays. I also wrote them to remind myself—over and over—that every scene needs action, that every comedy screenplay needs creative set pieces, and that I’ll have to screenwrite my butt off to compete with the talented writers of these movies.

The Heat (2013)

Written by Katie Dippold

Act 1

FBI agent Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) FIGURES OUT where drugs and guns are hidden in a bust, but EMBARRASSES herself ...

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