Script Theory: admit that writing is seduction, transcend the sad limits of linear structure

Mexican writer Guillermo Arriaga melts the conventional logic of script writing by embracing the sensual, timeless wonders of the unconscious mind. He wrote Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel, so he h
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Mexican writer Guillermo Arriaga melts the conventional logic of script writing by embracing the sensual, timeless wonders of the unconscious mind. He wrote Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel, so he has plenty of credibility.

[Hint: article has added juiciness about the making of Arriaga’s short film, Broken Night.]

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Tony Forster
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A theatre director, script developer and first assistant director in drama for cinema and television, Tony's first major piece of his own work to be shot has - surprisingly - turned out to be a doco...