Hi, I'm Michael. Welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. Today we are talking about Goodwill

Hunting and the psychology of character. I am joined by the lessons from the screenplay

team, writer Trisha Arand. Greetings, colleagues. Writer Brian Bidner.

Hey.

And editor Alex Cayettos.

Hello.

So why don't we start by talking about how we arrived at choosing Goodwill Hunting to

do for the channel.

And so Brian, you wrote this episode.

So do you want to sort of take us through how we arrived at choosing Goodwill

hunting?

Yeah, it was a little bit of a just group chat of, you know, I sort of went

through my Blu-rays and was like, here's a bunch of movies that'd be fun to write about,

and you kind of zeroed in on Goodwill Hunting.

And we had been talking about what makes a great scene.

So we were talking about maybe focusing on the end scene, but the end scene's very simple. So it was like, but let's talk about building up to that end scene. And we also wanted to do a video we could do quickly,

which I thought I could do with Goodwill hunting. I maybe got a little too self-confident

after Sean of the Dead. I was like, oh, now I can write one that like Michael likes and then

it just turns into roughly what the video is. Nope.

The great myth.

Michael's a tough customer.

But, you know, we'll talk about the process then. But I think it very quickly became a conversation about doing more of a character

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