570 - How Much Progress?

Scriptnotes Podcast

John August

Screenwriter, Tv & Film, Writing, John, Screenwriting, August, Craig, Screenplay, Mazin

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

John and Craig welcome back Liz Alper (Day of the Dead, The Rookie) and Brittani Nichols (Abbott Elementary, A Black Lady Sketch Show) to discuss how much progress has been made on issues from #MeToo, #PayUpHollywood, and depictions of police on screen. We look at common threads between the movements, and the difficulty of maintaining momentum once the initial impetus has passed.

We also answer listener questions on how to deal with ethically complicated projects and why there’s still so much copaganda on television.

In our bonus segment for premium members, John tells Craig a real life fairy tale about ‘The Writer Who Left his Reps.’ It’s magical and full of hope.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome. My name is John August.
0:03.8	My name is Craig Mason.
0:06.0	In a subset of 570 of script notes,
0:08.5	a podcast about screenwriting and things
0:10.6	that are interesting to screenwriters.
0:12.2	Today on the show, it's a follow-up episode.
0:14.4	We take a look at several of the big industry problems
0:17.4	we've discussed over the past few years
0:19.0	and examining what progress has been made.
0:21.5	And our bonus thing with premium members,
0:22.9	we're going to tell a heartwarming story just for Craig
0:25.3	about firing your managers.
0:26.9	Don't go further. We have to talk about follow-up episode.
0:29.4	Isn't that so adorable?
0:31.0	It's adorable. Did you just invent that?
0:33.4	As I was typing it up yesterday in the show notes,
0:35.3	that's what it is.
0:36.7	Okay, follow-up episode.
0:38.7	I actually angry about how many people are going to steal that.
0:41.4	I'm angry at them, and I'm angry for you about it.
0:46.2	Wonderful. I don't know that I actually invented it.
0:48.0	I bet if we did, like a Google search,
	...

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