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Episode 39 with Alexandra Sokoloff – thriller author & screenwriter
“You are directing a movie onto the page.”
Episode 39 – Alexandra Sokoloff – Show Notes
- Good and evil and what good people can do
- Screenwriters have to be plotters. Journey from impro to screenwriting
- Milk
- Exploration of violence against women using a female serial killer
- Using screenwriting techniques to become better authors
- Multi-task while appearing to have a social life
- Taking your favourite movies and working out what the classic movies are doing: Silence of the Lambs, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Casablanca, When Harry Met Sally, The Hunger Games, The Wizard of Oz
- Editors want a movie in their head
- Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, Denise Mina, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mo Hayder, Tana French, Val McDermid
- Huntress/FBI series – to be read in order – like a binge watch TV experience
- Hunger Moon is an unhappy read for Trump supporters
“If you’re going to talk about good and evil, you need to talk about people and what people do.”
“I do this with a total agenda of changing rape culture.”
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