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@c_lcb22 @GOP I am so sorry for your pain & situation. Please keep fighting no matter what. Your family needs you. I gladly gave up a lot emotionally/financially to help my brother. He passed & I would do it again. God Bless you & your family.

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I love this. Don't let other people sway your vision.

@HNLGuy @jackjohnson I love it!

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Getting to work back in my office today. Haters only motivate me more. So thank you for the extra push. Lol ✍️🎬 🎵

Most intelligent men eventually realise that they do not actually want a woman who is universally agreeable. They want a woman with discernment, standards, intensity, and the capacity to resist the world. Highly disagreeable women are often extraordinarily loyal because they do not distribute their softness, care, and agreeability indiscriminately to everyone around them. They choose a man carefully, and once they genuinely respect and love him, that tenderness becomes deeply concentrated toward him alone. A selectively agreeable woman possesses something far rarer: discernment, conviction, and loyalty rooted in conscious choice rather than social compliance. This is one of the most naive misconceptions many young men have. They think they want a woman who never challenges anything or possesses edges of her own. But most emotionally and intellectually developed men eventually understand that there is something profoundly attractive about a woman who is difficult for the world yet deeply soft with the man she truly loves and respects.

Yep, someone's got to be in charge.

@HwoodScrptReadr Thanks for this idea. I'm gonna try it with my comedy I'm wanting to develop more.

More on the "second third act." Here's a thought experiment to try. Take page 85 of your script and poof! Now it's page 55. Basically the end of Act II has suddenly become the Midpoint. Does this idea panic you a little? It should. Don't worry about how many pages you have to cut, not right now. This is just an exercise. What I'm asking you to do is think about what happens next. Not some new problem or conflict to tack on. Spoil your moment of victory with a reversal. It's like how in every slasher movie the killer comes back to life, but not necessarily that literal. Girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl gets boy – and then what? Good defeats evil but it causes a greater evil to arise. After all the life of your character goes on after you fade to black. You probably won't come up with a good idea at first. Start with "an idea" and go from there. Think of where the audience expects the movie to end up – and then keep going. Maybe it simply doesn't work and that's okay. You haven't committed to anything. I'm not saying every script needs this or you have to do it. I'm saying it might spark some genius idea that was not on your radar in the original conception of the film and take it in a new direction. There's a reason why more and more modern movies are pulling this neat little narrative trick. And once you notice it, you start seeing it everywhere. What are some other movies you've seen with a second third act?

“Most older, successful people will tell you that their life was best when they lived it unapologetically, on their own terms.” — Naval Ravikant

Sebastian Stan says discrimination is "happening around all of us." "I’m not on the front lines, I’m not in an operating room, I’m not out there being shot out, but this is my medium, this is my lane and all I can do is involve myself in projects that I think bring up important conversations ... Art doesn’t have to solve a problem, it just has to embody it correctly. And I think as long as we can do that fearlessly, we can actually push back against these things." variety.com/2026/film/news…

Everybody is a girls girl until a woman walks in with quiet confidence, a pure heart, and no need for a crowd. That's when the energy shifts.

Be real. Unapologetically yourself. Nobody's doing it. Everybody now is a copy of a copy. It takes courage to be yourself. To not care. About judgements and opinions and what anybody thinks about you. Be your real, flawed self. Respect your likes and dislikes. Protect what you care about. And be loyal to you instincts. That's what makes you rare.

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@unkonfined 🙏

People’s opinions of you aren’t facts.

Rereading Dostoevsky for the third time. He understood human suffering better than any psychologist I've read. Because I believe psychologists observe suffering. Dostoevsky lived inside it. Faced a firing squad. Survived. Spent four years in a Siberian prison camp. Gambled everything away. Loved people who destroyed him. And wrote it all down. As fiction. Because in fiction you can say the truth. The kind of truth that if you say it in open, people will think you're crazy. Read him if you haven't. Reread him if you have. He will show you parts of yourself you didn't know existed.

Hey, perhaps us older writers have an advantage when you look at it this way. ✍️🎬

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@SebastianComedy Agree. 🙏 Waitressing also teaches us how to handle difficult people.

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A film made by humans, physically cut by them, photochemically color timed by humans, and then projected by a human in IMAX 70MM. one of the best demonstrations of "fuck AI filmmaking" i think we've ever seen.

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