Welcome to Story Break, the writer's room podcast where three swarthy Hollywood individuals

Three brothers united by five divided by war have an hour to come up with a pitch for

an awesome movie.

My name is Freddie Wong.

I'm Will Campos and that's the screenwriter.

I was going to try to do a funny joke, but I don't have one.

And I'm Matt Arnold and you two know who I am.

Ten years has been and now you just pretend you don't know me.

We had to see mentor dammit right now Matt Freddie and I are all pointing to guns at each

of us as dubs fly up out and bombastic music plays because it's finally after hundreds

of episodes, it's time for heroic bloodshed.

It's heroic bloodshed week on Story Break.

It was nice about I can say whatever week that we do the episode is story breaks

that week because we only do one thing for week.

So it's technically heroic budget week before we get all into it.

So we just do quickly for those who don't know what heroic bloodshed is.

It's a genre of Hong Kong action cinema loosely like it can be used for many things.

It's a pretty loose term and also I think it was coined by a white writer in some magazine

in the 90s.

So it's like not like an official thing.

But essentially heroic bloodshed is a Hong Kong crime genre that is operatic and usually

involves criminals and police officers that both have strong codes of ethics and like

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