thoughts:

1. don't point that finger at me!
2. please point your finger at the excessive carbon in the atmosphere 😜

There's a great "book moment" in William Goldman's "Adventures in the Screen Trade" where he's discussing "movie moments"

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Believing Reality

I was riding in a car one afternoon with the Canadian director Norman Jewison.

The next day, his daughter was to turn twenty-one. A large celebration had been

planned, almost all of it to take place outside.

It was gloomy that afternoon, the threat of rain growing. If it rained the next day,

the party would have to be considerably altered with very little notice.

We were driving along and Jewison said, "I wonder what the weather's going to

be like tomorrow?" As he said this, he flicked on the car radio, and the instant he

spoke the word tomorrow, the voice on the radio replied "Tomorrow's weather is

for heavy rains, flooding at times, etc."

In other words, if you had closed your eyes and listened, you would have heard

two run-on sentences without so much as a pause in between.

Jewison and I turned to each other and simultaneously said, "A movie moment."


What we meant was-and this cannot be stated too often or too strongly-that the

reality of a movie has almost nothing to do with the reality of the world that we,

as humans, inhabit.
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Sometimes events will line up with your priming of the audience and help you. My take is: the great storyteller takes the win gracefully and integrates it.

To speak to Mike Meyer's point: following through on this line of thought, it therefore matters - a lot - that we should be telling more stories about planetary emergencies, and less about the colour of one's Bugatti.