SC20 - Sidecast: Heroes and Villains (of the Strike)

Scriptnotes Podcast

John August

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

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A lot of people have been singled out as either heroes or villains of this writer’s strike, but does any individual deserve that title? John and Drew look at these narratives, the motivations behind them, and celebrate their own personal heroes of the strike.

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David Zaslav Article Taken Down By GQ After Warner Bros. Discovery Raises Objections by Dave Hayes for Variety
Summary of Negotiations: WGA proposals and AMPTP responses
Updated picket hours and information
2023 WGA Strike Rules
Strike Rules FAQ
Picket Schedules and Locations
Find more about the 2023 WGA negotiations here at WGAContract2023.org
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome.
0:02.9	My name is John August.
0:04.0	My name is Drew Markwart.
0:05.3	And this is a script note sidecast, a short episode about one thing.
0:08.9	Today, I want to talk about heroes and villains, not in the usual script note sense of
0:13.9	protagonist and antagonistic character arcs, but heroes and villains of the strike drew.
0:19.6	So this morning I was picking up Paramount and had a chat with a writer named Stephen.
0:23.7	He got an early pitch of this episode, so I want to thank him for his notes and his
0:28.2	feedback.
0:29.2	So Stephen was telling me that he felt the DJ had screwed us over in making a deal with
0:34.3	the MPTP and was worried that Sack might do the same.
0:38.0	Drew, have you heard any of these questions like this out on the pick list?
0:40.3	I hear it almost every time I'm out on the pick line.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:43.6	And you know what, feelings are valid.
0:45.4	Feelings are not the same thing as facts, obviously.
0:48.2	And Stephen was not looking to be convinced one way or the other, which was great and fine.
0:52.2	But I wanted to take this opportunity to unpack what Stephen said a little bit because I
0:56.5	think as writers we have this natural instinct to narrow device the world around us.
1:02.3	We want to create stories.
1:03.4	We want to assign motives to people.
1:05.6	So we pick heroes and villains.
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