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40 —SCREENPLAY-ActionSUBJECTI I I
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48 —SCREENPLAY—Butch mutters to
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68 —SCREENPLAY —gold. Both Abby
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90 —SCREENPLAY—ends. We talked
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Setting Up theStory"I'll tell you t
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126 —SCREENPLAY—Watch Chinatown
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"Writing a screenplay is in many wa
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152 —SCREENPLAY —In The Matrix,
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Writing theScreenplayBAGBY:"Gentlem
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Indexaction films, 187-98Act I (Set
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— INDEX— 313matching to existin
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— INDEX — 315Gone With the Wind
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— INDEX — 317Parker, Dorothy, 2
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