PODCAST – The Martian: Bring Your Script Home

The success of The Martian is extremely exciting if you're a screenwriter, especially because it breaks so much of the traditional Hollywood dogma. Often, as screenwriters, we think that our movies have to exist within some kind of orthodoxy: that there are certain things that you are just not allowed to do, and if you do them somehow you have no chance of writing a movie that's a hit. And yet, The Martian seems to throw all of those cares to the wind.

If you’ve taken the average Screenwriting 101 class you’ve probably been taught a couple of concepts that are supposed to be the rules for all movies.

You've probably been taught that structure is always built on characters' change. Yet, here is a character who doesn't change at all.

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