165 | Michael Arndt's Act 1 Masterclass (REBROADCAST)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

To prepare for his upcoming appearance on our show, TSL is proud to rebroadcast a classic, Michael Ardnt's Act 1 Masterclass. Little Miss Sunshine's script, written by our guest Michael Arndt, won almost every major industry award, and for good reason. Its warmth, humor, and surefooted commitment to its themes makes it one of the finest scripts written this century. And SO many of those themes show up in Act 1. Michael has become a bit "obsessed" with act 1's lately, because it's our chance to maximize the "rooting interest" around our hero so that our audience has no choice but to keep watching. FOR MICHAEL'S (AMAZING) WEBSITE: https://www.pandemoniuminc.com/

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, producer Jeff here with a really exciting episode.
0:03.0	We're actually re-erring our 2021 episode with Michael Arnd.
0:07.6	It's a really incredible episode pretty much devoted to Act Ones
0:10.9	and how to make the most kind of bulletproof and momentum building Act One possible.
0:15.6	So it's a really valuable episode and part of the reason we're re-erring it is because Michael is going to be back on the show soon to sort of continue the conversation
0:24.0	around what he built in this episode. So we wanted to refresh your memory and
0:27.6	just dig into a bona fide TSL Classic. Enjoy the show.
0:31.6	Hey guys, welcome back to the show. Today we are thrilled to be talking to one of
0:37.2	Hollywood's most well known and most well respected screenwriters, Michael Arndt.
0:42.0	Michael Arne's first produced screenplay, Little Miss Sunshine, won the Oscar Baffa, WGA, an Indie Spirit Award for Best Original Screenplay and is considered one of the finest
0:52.6	scripts written in the 21st century.
0:54.4	He has written for many major studios and franchises
0:57.5	including Pixar, Lions Gate and Disney,
0:59.4	and has one of the most respected and valued story brains working in our business today.
1:04.0	So from one story brain to another I will say I am so excited to be doing this.
1:09.0	Welcome Michael.
1:11.0	Welcome.
1:12.0	Well thank you.
1:13.0	You guys kind of ambushed me with that introduction.
1:15.1	I wish I had had some fair warning that that was going to happen.
1:18.1	But thank you for having me on the podcast.
1:21.0	You're so humble.
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