5 Worst Types of Scenes (Writing Advice)

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Learn about the worst types of scenes and how to avoid writing them--with examples from Star Wars, The Hills Have Eyes, Strange World, and more!
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@John_Fx 4 месяца назад

"Somehow Palpatine returned"

@dexterpoindexter3583 4 месяца назад

General Grievous brought Palpatine back to the library 'cause he was way overdue. 😖

@g.davidturnblom5751 4 месяца назад

That's not really a bad scene, it's bad dialog in a bad scene. No argument that it belongs in this comment section, though.

@EH23831 4 месяца назад

Ooof 😖

@adamalchemy2790 4 месяца назад

😆🤣

@Graystaff 4 месяца назад

“Somehow the Enterprise was protected from the tachyon field…” - yeah, it’s been going on for a long time.

@erbelisle 4 месяца назад

You cut the part where Rose finishes to say : ''That's how we gonna win : not fighting what we hate, but saving what we love'' and then the door they are supposed to protect - which procures cover to the ones they love - explodes. Lol. That was a hot mess of dissonance and hypocrisy, where Fin is ridiculed while he should be a hero, and Rose thinks she is the hero, when she is full of it...

@xeroprotagonist 4 месяца назад

I was blown away by that in the theater because it came right after the sacrifice of Holdo, which made it even more of a total thematic trainwreck.

@erbelisle 4 месяца назад

Yup. I facepalmed myself so hard that I hit the person sitting behind me.@@xeroprotagonist

@Leuber 4 месяца назад

The problem is that when it comes to bad scenes and TLJ, you can just put the entire movie. So you have to make a stop in any case where you could have shown more to illustrate the point.

@blshouse 4 месяца назад

The scene was purposeful; the whole movie was a feature length troll of Star Wars fans.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

There's actually one scene I like a lot in TLJ--the one where Kylo Ren is tempted to shoot Leia, then he decides not to. I thought that was well done in terms of tension, internal conflict, and character development. Sadly though, the scene was followed shortly after by the Flying Leia scene.

@JamestheXennial 4 месяца назад

Clunky exposition/info dump scenes are by far my most hated. "Hello, Character. Don't you remember this detail of your life I am reminding you of for absolutely no story-driven reason, fellow character?"

@FisherBros 4 месяца назад

What if you write it where it looks like it's going to be an exposition, but then the other character cuts him off and says, "Oh, don't worry, I know. but why don't you tell me something *I don't* know?"

@EH23831 4 месяца назад

The end of Hitchcock’s the Birds and the end of Psycho- clunky info dump by an “expert” lecturing other characters 🙄 Hitchcock is over-rated

@siegfriedmordrake3229 4 месяца назад

As you know, I've been your brother for our entire life

@siegfriedmordrake3229 4 месяца назад

@@FisherBrosit's a bit less lazy and more self aware but still not perfect

@jorgem.sanchezgonzalez5903 4 месяца назад

@@EH23831 you clearly don't get what a McGuffin is, which is exactly why the info dump is irrelevant and probably imposed by the studio.

@kevingluys3063 4 месяца назад

For me it's the classic problem of "Sex/sexy scene that doesn't do anything for the story or theme, doesn't fit the tone of the rest of the movie, and is clearly just the director wanting to see this actress do this."

@MrLeroy42 4 месяца назад

True! I believe that most sex scenes are pointless. There are situations where it can make sense and that is ok. But you need to make sure that it moves the plot forward and builds onto characters.

@julietardos5044 4 месяца назад

ITA. Most sex scenes in movies slow the story down. Plus, hey, that's a private moment, and maybe we don't need to be there? I can think of a couple exceptions, but mostly, sex scenes are there for eye candy, not to forward the story.

@GoeTeeks 4 месяца назад

The only example of a story that shows story and character development through sex scenes is Mysterious Skin. It's a bit of a weird movie though.

@deedeechur 4 месяца назад

Agreed. It is such an 80s thing. Look world, we are having sex, we're cool people... Boring 🕑🕝🕒😮‍💨

@ShadeSlayer1911 4 месяца назад

It also turns a movie that I would otherwise be okay watching with family into a movie that I'm nervous or uncomfortable watching with family. Like there are movies that would otherwise be G rated or PG, but they have one or two sex scenes that don't really fit at all, and it means I'm definitely not watching it with my family. And the other thing is...there's actual porn for that sort of thing.

@dee-taylor 4 месяца назад

"And this example of self-defeating scenes comes from The Last Jedi." *plays entire movie* "Don't do that. Just don't."

@kevingray4980 3 месяца назад

Normally once I hear the movie, I can guess the example. Last Jedi gives me stack overflow.

@futurestoryteller 3 месяца назад

Yeah if there's any word I would use to describe the Last Jedi it's "safe"... You can describe literally almost anything as if it's a mistake divorced from any context. Or even within plenty of selectively chosen points of context. "Darth Vader sacrificing himself doesn't make any sense, he spends two movies seemingly trying to kill his own son, and the only attempt he makes to reach out to him as an ally is offering to exploit the relationship to prop himself up as a dictator in the emperor's place. Then even though it doesn't _really_ make any sense for the character, who's been presented as the personification of evil - when he's finally redeemed by defeating the emperor, instead of living with what he's done, and having to face it, or even just getting to see the seeds of his redemption grow, he has to die. Even though he did it for his son, they don't really ever get to know each other, this robs them of that, and we don't get to see how the rest of the Star Wars universe reacts to this implausible 180, or how Vader would respond to their response to it. The real sacrifice is truly intriguing storytelling for a cheap popcorny trope that combines the cliches, 'love conquers all' with the 'redemptive martyrdom.'" It doesn't make *total* sense to argue that self-sacrifice is _the_ logical and necessary endpoint for Fin's character arc, in part because that's extremely predictably rigid and formulaic, and in part because it implies that sufficient character work had been done on Fin to justify it. Art is not science. People mistake their critical incites for objectivity.

@nou1186 2 месяца назад

@@futurestorytellerI’d argue that Rose stopping Finn’s sacrifice could have made for a good scene if 1) it wasn’t done in a stupid way that should be extremely likely to just kill them both, 2) Rose hadn’t shown zero self-awareness about it and acted like she was helping them win, and 3) the movie hadn’t framed it as if Rose was RIGHT.

@futurestoryteller 2 месяца назад

@@nou1186 Have you ever finished The Last of Us?

@nou1186 2 месяца назад

@futurestoryteller I have. I also know how that ends. Joel also doesn’t respond to Ellie’s fury at discovering the truth with “I saved you, dummy.” He understands that she has a right to be upset at her chance to be the cure being taken, even if he doesn’t regret his choice. I also don’t recall any moment surrounding that choice that’s as self-contradictory as a character saying “we win by saving what we love” while a giant laser blows up what they love as a result of her choices. In other words, TLOU is an example of how you CAN do a “screw the greater good” type of scene where a character chooses their own loved one and make it work. Joel’s choice is justifiable to many, but he doesn’t lie to himself and pretend that it’s for some greater purpose than just saving one person that he cares about, with his view never being called into question. The hospital scene and the scenes referring to it are more well-written and tonally appropriate than the Finn/Rose scene.

@Achieme 4 месяца назад

7:13 That's what i hate about when people use the "it's a kids movie there's no reason to get this upset" that's a cop out excuse for bad writing and diminishes a child's level of intellect and awareness. There are tons of amazing films and shows with compelling writing that still hold up for decades. Not to mention most films and show are *FAMILY friendly* meaning it's for everyone

@intergalactic92 4 месяца назад

To paraphrase Roger Rabbit: "you could have got out of those cuffs at anytime?" "Well not anytime. Only when it was funny." It was played for laughs. Sure, they could have escaped using the blob at any time but then it wouldn’t be funny.

@YagoFierceDeity 4 месяца назад

Precisely.

@jennymunday7913 4 месяца назад

@@intergalactic92 I always thought that was the best power limitation in any movie. He's got infinite powers, but he can only use them if it's funny.

@reptiliannoizezz.413 4 месяца назад

"Well the kids that watched this are gonna turn into adults and realize how dogshit it really was!"

@abdielnava4776 3 месяца назад

This has been done before in older cartoons. Its not new. But you act as if only the new movies have this issue. Its for laughs and entertainment. Yall making it into a bigger deal than it should be

@JustACactus616 4 месяца назад

Can you do “How to write action scenes in books”. I want descriptive and specific fight scenes that last for a long time, but don’t drag on. Something with multiple characters fighting each other and how to explain everything that’s going on

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Sure, I'll add this request to my list... I may have actually covered this topic a year or two ago, by I can't remember which video. Might have been this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rGqR3Oj61yo.html

@wacky_paintings 4 месяца назад

The Geoff Thompson books are really good. The fighting is all real too, from when he was a bouncer. There's three books in a row. One of them is called "Watch my back"

@dr.marvel543 4 месяца назад

Don't forget about The Wircher books. I started to read him a week ago and now it's already my guide to writing action scenes and describing the fantasy world by showing it and not telling.

@furycat6531 4 месяца назад

Love your work, and would absolutely second the request on writing good, punchy action scenes that don't leave the reader confused as to what's happening, or bored. I'm going to be writing a lot of action scenes in the coming chapters of what I'm working on!

@DreamsOfFire 4 месяца назад

The best advice I ever got for writing action scenes is to make sentences shorter. Shorter is punchy! It makes it read faster! More exciting! The second best advice is to go back through your scenes and act out the choreography with physical items (on a table or something). It will help you solidify character placement and keep the action easy to visualize and consistent from your main POV.

@habbidasher6937 4 месяца назад

"I'm gunna risk killing us both to save you from killing yourself to save everyone." -Rose Makes perfect sense.

@hebercluff1665 4 месяца назад

I REALLY hate it when a romance story has the two main characters ready to confess to each other, only to have the moment interrupted an all chances of anything going anywhere evaporating.

@ZenMonkeyGod 3 месяца назад

Or when they're about to kiss, only to get interrupted by someone who walks in on them. It's honestly among the most tired cliches of all time.

@hebercluff1665 3 месяца назад

@@ZenMonkeyGod right? They should just kiss when they're ready to kiss - not when the author finally gets over their fear of having to find something else to bring suspense in the story. readers: "Will they or won't they...? 💕" *Minor plot development later* Readers: "Ooo! They will! It's time for them to kiss, right?" Author: "Err.... MAYDAY MAYDAY! The story still needs drama. Kiss incoming! ABORT ABORT! TAKE EVASIVE ACTION!"

@ZenMonkeyGod 3 месяца назад

@hebercluff1665 Ha! So true! I see and read such moments so often, I have to remind myself it's a different book/film from the last time I witnessed it. It's fairly rare that the character doesn't wind up with their love interest, and although such moments do happen in real life, it always comes across as contrived when it's in a romance (or even an action) movie. Disney shows and films have always been the most egregiously guilty of this; character is about to confess something, the other character interrupts with something completely undoes the moment, and then the first character doesn't go through with confessing. Same goes for characters confessing their feelings to each other. It's been so tired for so long now, we end up surprised when it doesn't happen. I've just convinced myself it's some unspoken writers' rule to always manufacture some unsolicited drama for drama's sake! 😅

@giandomenicomartorelli8069 4 месяца назад

I'm not expert on dropping babies - Brandon McNulty, 2024 😂

@benjaminwatt2436 4 месяца назад

its never too late to learn a new skill set

@rogierb5945 3 месяца назад

@@benjaminwatt2436 Adding it to my resume right now.

@victorcurtis6400 Месяц назад

You could’ve at least consulted a baby dropping expert.

@johnriddlebaugh7436 4 месяца назад

The so-called Star Wars sequel trilogy should be listed under "How to insult fans and moviegoers".

@alceusrydan6237 4 месяца назад

Also add avatar the last airbender movie

@4saken404 3 месяца назад

I especially hated the part where everyone thought Chewbacca was dead only to have the movie cop out and reveal he really wasn't mere minutes later. Why build up an emotional scene only to immediately undo it??

@wdotwreckvideos 4 месяца назад

Can you make a video about the difference between horror and thriller?

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Interesting idea--I'll add it to my list. Thanks!

@wdotwreckvideos 4 месяца назад

@@WriterBrandonMcNulty Thank you for your videos!

@ssssssstssssssss 4 месяца назад

WriterBrandonMcNulty I watched Straw Dogs recently. It was marketed as a thriller but honestly I felt it to be more horror. Is the line not always so clear?

@briantrafford4871 4 месяца назад

For bad writing Game of Thrones S8 is the gift that keeps on giving. Hard to pick only one bad scene since every episode insults itself, the characters and audience at every turn. But the "let's pick a king scene" has to take the cake. The whole thing is classic What. The. F***??? If that isn't the worst scene ever it has to be top (bottom?) three.

@siegfriedmordrake3229 4 месяца назад

I don't hate season 8 as much as you seem to do but yeah, that scene was utter bullshit. After all that happened, the 7 kingdoms should have been independent again, like the North does. It would have been a logical, moral and beautiful decision to end the war for the iron throne. The end of an era and the beginning of a new one

@kri249 4 месяца назад

I actually didn't mind the story for season 8. It's thexproduction I take ire with. It was clearly rushed and needed a full season to flesh out the story, not wrap everything up in 8 episodes.

@briantrafford4871 4 месяца назад

@siegfriedmordrake3229 First, I am not sure it is possible for anyone to hate GoT S8 as much as I do. The story was rushed, characters lacked motives (or even rationality) for their actions, character archs where obliterated, battle scenes were shot in utter darkness so we couldn't see anything, and the ending was preposterous. But I do think the "let's pick a king" scene stands head and shoulders above the rest for sheer badness. Quite honestly if it had been left out entirely, and the seven kingdoms merely descended into civil war, that would have been a better ending.

@siegfriedmordrake3229 4 месяца назад

@@briantrafford4871 haha, I get you ok 😆 like someone said earlier, I think the story is good but indeed rushed and poorly executed. GoT should have been made of 9 or even 10 seasons but D&D wanted to end it as soon as possible to work on Star wars (which they ironically never did) so whatcha gonna do... But yeah, the king picking made me jaw drop and not in a good way. Because who has a better story than bran, except literally every other character ,

@Tyrisalthan 3 месяца назад

That last episode could have been a season or even two on its own. Let's say first part of the season 9 is them actually taking the city, the middle part is Dany taking the throne and ruling, becoming more mad episode by episode, and at the end Jon kills her. Season 10 starts at the aftermath of the regicide, in the midpart the lords of westeros arrives to kings landing and schemes who should be king, and at the end there would be a grand council where the new king is decided.

@christianmock7068 4 месяца назад

To be fair to the mom in that first scene, I think it’s a lot to ask of someone to stop and carefully consider their options in a panicked, desperate state of mind like that, and I can completely understand why the frying pan was her first instinct.

@honeybadgerjay1724 4 месяца назад

WORST SCENE: i have go to back to that Star Wars movie for the scene when Princess Leia flies in space. I cringed so hard i left a permanent inprint on my seat

@EH23831 4 месяца назад

Yes!! That was the worst - insulting to the character, the audience and the whole franchise 😟😖

@thecircleoft.e.d2121 4 месяца назад

Yeah, considering we all heard about Carrie's passing before TLJ, that moment should've been when her character died; would've been a more fitting end than...whatever they actually did. @@EH23831

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

What's worse about that scene is that it came after a legitimately good moment where we saw Kylo Ren struggling with the temptation to kill Leia. He has his thumbs on the blaster triggers, then he opts not to kill her. That was my favorite moment in the entire movie, and then the next thing that happened is Icicle Leia flying

@jesusromanpadro3853 4 месяца назад

The main problem with that for me is that if you read the old comics and books you knew that Luke trained her, but she didn't got the full training because she has to help govern the new republic. The movie needed to add that. Same goes to Palpatine returning. Done in a comic books decades ago. Also, with force healing, never showed in the movies, but I did use that power playing the Star Wars RPG. Heck, you have to reed the novels and comics to understand the New Order, or whatever they were called.

@truthspreader1996 3 месяца назад

Wait didn't she use the force to save herself? Can the force not do that?

@BitcoinMotorist 4 месяца назад

The worst seens should be left unscene

@ZenMonkeyGod 3 месяца назад

Good one 🤘

@Alexey65536 4 месяца назад

For me it's a pivotal scene without a proper buildup. A scene so forced, contrived and coming seemingly out of nowhere that instead of feeling like a major revelation it leaves you baffled and disappointed. My personal #1 of hated scenes is Love Confession scene writers pull out of their asses at the very last moment. As if they are just ticking the checkbox.

@oliverford5367 4 месяца назад

All 5 apply to the Last Jedi! I kept saying to myself "he's talking about TLJ here!"

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Hahahah!!

@oliverford5367 4 месяца назад

@@WriterBrandonMcNulty Like the whole not telling anyone the plan, pulling hyperspace ramming out of its ass then never using it before or since....

@futurestoryteller 3 месяца назад

@@oliverford5367 You guys ever think about how when you want to criticize something, some kind of plot device, you'll complain about how its existence ruins the plot, or "breaks the universe" but then other times you claim only the _logical implementation_ of the device ruins the plot, or breaks the universe. So you don't argue that it doesn't make any sense to do that, given the things we know to exist - in this case - in the Star Wars universe, your only complaint is that something you obviously never thought of before is so simple that it's ridiculous it has only been used one time...

@captainmarvelwilson508 4 месяца назад

Regarding the scene where Rose saves Finn, Rian Johnson came up with it just to create a “false scare”, which backfired and ended up treating his audience like idiots. Somehow he thought most of the audience were little children.

@cladesm 4 месяца назад

My theory for that scene was they wanted people to pair Finn and Rose because people were pairing Finn and Poe... So they gave them a rescue the "damsel in distress" scene to make it plausible... Which just came out as SA (don't randomly kiss people!) It's the worst... It betrays the characters, the fandom and the story all at once.

@taragnor 4 месяца назад

The vast majority of "false scare" scenes are terrible. I wish they'd stop using it. It just teases us with a far better scene.

@vaclavvrobel9036 4 месяца назад

Its a horrible scene. Also its already about third time in the movie where all you have to do to win is to perform one kamikaze flight. Also in what world you save your loved one who is about to save everybody so that he could die moments later with everybody?

@siegfriedmordrake3229 4 месяца назад

Even a child would feel insulted with that scene

@cosmicspacething3474 4 месяца назад

They want to “subvert expectations” just for the shock, without actually having it feel like a natural twist.

@JoanPeris 4 месяца назад

It's super frustrating to be invested in a character's dilemma for it to be resolved by the author (convenience plot device or deus ex machina) or by denying the bad outcome of the final decision. A dilemma is interesting because there's no perfect solution and you can wonder forever if you did the right thing, which easily creates conflict and unexpected outcomes. And, if you respect the dilemma's bad consequences, you can watch/read that story again and it will never feel like an easy moment. However, if the foreseen bad consequences are denied or another element solves the dilemma for the character, you lose all possible tension in any rewatch/reread. Great video as always! Thanks for your work!! ❤

@alexandergregory5435 4 месяца назад

Anything Ryan Murphy writes for AHS. *person enters room* “hello everyone, I’m a villain and I do bad things. I’m gong to do bad things to all of you bc I’m a bad person. Did I mention, I’m the villain in this story?”

@smorsnbread1002 4 месяца назад

I very rarely post youtube comments nowadays… but I JUST (I know you hate that word😂) had to show my support for this channel and for you, Brandon. I’m still writting my first real novel, and people like you have been a huge help for my learning. Keep inspiring! And as always… keep on writing! Much love.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Hey thanks for this comment! I appreciate the kind word. Best of luck with your writing!

@smorsnbread1002 4 месяца назад

@@WriterBrandonMcNulty Thank you sir :)

@TheRealDan0il 4 месяца назад

I love this guy. Always dispensing some sound advice. Definitely worth the watch.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Thank you!

@Interestingten10 4 месяца назад

I am happy that you mentioned the cyclist scene in Thelma and Luis. I remember being confused watching that scene. It felt it shouldn't be there.

@rayvenkman2087 3 месяца назад

All I can remember of it is the Simpsons' spoofing of it with Jimbo.

@davidanderson9103 4 месяца назад

Worst scene: The mall scene at the beginning of Wonder Woman 1984. So bad I didn't make it through the whole scene, and definitely didn't watch the rest of the movie.

@kanemighty 3 месяца назад

Looked like some bad 80's commercial. When she winked at that little girl while holding the bad guy by his leg, I thought that I'll hear that Mentos song.

@MusicoftheDamned Месяц назад

You got spared one of the literal worst movies I have ever seen then. Good instincts since it's only downhill, precipitously, from there for multiple reasons. Such a shame since the first DCEU _Wonder Woman_ movie is overall decent outside of too much slow-mo and most of those last 10 minutes with Ares, but _WW84_ is so bad it lowered my opinion of Patti Jenkins herself unfortunately.

@bellatorpoeta 4 месяца назад

I get a feeling that should-have-been-deleted scenes are often kept in to fulfill an obligation or to sate someone's vanity.

@likliksnek 4 месяца назад

yes, and I also often suspect inside jokes of the film team to have a play in it. (No pun intended)

@siegfriedmordrake3229 4 месяца назад

In very bad movies it can even be to extend the run time to the bare minimum length for a feature film

@dungeonessentials4961 4 месяца назад

Dothraki riding into the dark to face the Night King at the Battle of Winterfell knowing that they’ll die and become more soldiers for the army of the Dead. Or wait… Danny “forgot about the Iron Fleet” and lost her second to last dragon… to a CROSSBOW BOLT fired from a ship. No sorry hiding in the crypts of Winterfell… actually just submit the last season of GoT.

@IridescentFalcon72 4 месяца назад

Last Jedi is actually really good.... because it's got so many examples of bad writing that no matter the topic you can always use a scene from it as an example

@rayvenkman2087 3 месяца назад

And people swear up and down that it's a "brilliant" Star Wars script

@futurestoryteller 3 месяца назад

You two are confusing opinions for facts.

@rayvenkman2087 3 месяца назад

@@futurestoryteller And I suppose you know any better?

@futurestoryteller 3 месяца назад

@@rayvenkman2087 Um... yes.

@Terastas 4 месяца назад

Overkill scenes can work, as long as your intention is to make it clear that the character is thinking frantically or irrationally. The first thing I thought of while going down the description was the scene in Terminator 2 where T-800 and John break into the car: T-800 smashes open the window, rips off a panel and hot-wires it, while at the same time John lets himself in via an unlocked door, finds the keys inside the sun shade, then jingles them in T-800's face and says "Are we learning yet?" I can also tolerate the frying pan scene from THHE because tense situations like that don't exactly allow for rational thought, much less careful planning. Better acting or better editing could have salvaged that scene.

@matman000000 3 месяца назад

The difference is that T2 shows the bad consequence of the overkill decision and turns it into a joke. The Coen brothers are masters of this, they often let their characters choose overkill measures (woodchipper in Fargo, pretty much every interaction in Big Lebowski) to show that the characters are out of their depth and panic in situations they're unprepared for.

@isaiahgalarza3112 4 месяца назад

Hey man… I’m a writer Director here in Hollywood, and I Love your channel! You should do a video about scenes from movies that technically don’t talk about what the scene is about, but the message is conveyed to the audience like a ton of bricks! Point in case: the scene from “Julie and Julia“ (not a very good movie, but stay with me) with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. The scene where Streep is in the kitchen and her husband, played by Stanley Tucci, comes home with an unopened letter from her Sister… She opened it and the dialogue indicates that she’s happy hearing the news that her Sister is expecting a baby. However… The subtext, aided by the performance, tells us the tragedy that this couple has endured. NOTHING to that trauma is ever spoken about, but we get it with a full barrage of emotion!

@robertlewis5439 4 месяца назад

1) Bad exposition scene in Pixar's Cars, at the Wheel Well, when Sally is explaining the effects of the interstate highway system to Lightning, who unenthusiastically mutters "uh huhs" and "yeas" as responses over an interminable scene. 2) In the beginning of Despicable Me 3, Gru heroically recovered a stolen diamond only to be fired by the AVL for having allowed the thief to escape after he fell for a deception. The scene introduces an ambitious and terrible new boss character who only exists to fire Gru and push the plot to the middle segment of the story.

@elijahalbiston 3 месяца назад

I'll disagree on Cars. Most of the movie up until that point is very focused on the town and what being cut off has done to it. An explanation has been foreshadowed, it doesn't feel unnecessary or too much because there's been build-up, and unlike most of those scenes its actually quite emotional because it adds so much to the characters. I think it's an important and well done exposition scene.

@ChristianSonicTheHedgehog 4 месяца назад

For me this isn’t a “Worst Scene”, but more of a terrible decision made in a lot of shows: A entire episode on a side story/character that doesn’t matter. Both The Mandalorian and Stranger Things are guilty of this. It’s when a show focuses on a specific character that isn’t associated with the actual story in a proper way. In The Mandalorian S3 E3 the entire episode was just focused on a character nobody remembered from season 2. The problem with this is that the show doesn’t live up to it’s name. A show called “The Mandalorian should be about the Mandalorian, not some ex-imperial officer.

@Army_Dog 4 месяца назад

That reminds me of at least half of Barry Season 4

@kingofthejungle2894 4 месяца назад

Whatˋs the example in stranger things?

@ChristianSonicTheHedgehog 4 месяца назад

@@kingofthejungle2894 Season 2: The Lost Sister. It’s been hailed by the fanbase as the worst episode of the show, and everyone would have been better without it being in the series.

@kingofthejungle2894 4 месяца назад

@@ChristianSonicTheHedgehog Oh right! I have totally forgotten about that episode. Wouldn't make any difference though😂

@TheCloneTrooperJedi 4 месяца назад

It's not about Dr. Pershing (he just happens to be the pov character in the episode) it's a world building episode about the New Republic's government. I'm ok with world building episodes, or episodes that slow down the plot or deviate from the Main Characters, as they add value without forcing an additional side quest. This does come back into play in the Ahsoka Series quite a bit so it's not a waste, it even comes into play in other episodes in the Mandalorian where Carson Teva has to go rogue to get the Mandalorians to help the town, hinting at the Imperial agents are sabotaging the new Republic from the inside, which what do you know, shows up everywhere in Ahsoka. It's a connected universe and sometimes there's no good place for that set up, but it's necessary. Marvel could do it at the end of movies because people would stick around. A TV show like this can't afford to do it that way. So sometimes an episode needs to be sacrificed to world build. It seems like you are upset Din Djarin isn't keeping the spotlight to himself because of the show title, just like those who had a problem with Kenobi sharing the spotlight with Leia and Reva. That's an ok thing to be upset about. Personally, I'd rather have one episode on a "lesser" character that world builds (In Mando's case, at least it gives an insight on the problems of the New Republic which plays out consistently in later episodes and other series) than having to wait for a whole new series just to get answers about the world or era if it's not worth spending a season or movie on, which in this case, i don't believe it is.

@neoyamemlangeni 4 месяца назад

I'm usually a HUGE fan of fast paced action/fight scenes, but it REALLY frustrates me when a character like John Wick gets little or no injuries during an action scene like that one scene in John Wick 3 where John Wick and Sofia shoot their way out of Casablanca. As a result, the scene looks boring and unrealistic to me. A scene that does a better job is a scene just like the fight scene between Peacemaker and Rick Flag from The Suicide Squad(2021). By the way, I read Entry Wounds, love it👍great work, It's a masterpiece.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Wow thank you for the kind words about Entry Wounds. Glad you liked it. Please leave an Amazon review if you don’t mind. Those help a ton. And going back to your John Wick comment, I love those movies, but I miss the groundedness of JW1. Remember how he had to recover after being thrown off a balcony at the Red Circle? That was great. Same with when he had to get patched up at the start of JW3. I just hope they keep JW4’s ending final. If they want to do a JW5, just make it a prequel about his impossible task

@Pinkybum 3 месяца назад

Isn't it John Wick 2 where he gets hit by a car and in the next second gets up and continues fighting. I had to stop watching it at that point.

@izzyleanne 4 месяца назад

Worst scene Scream 4. While sitting in his car, cop gets stabbed in the forehead with giant knife. Then opens his door, gets out, walks a bit swinging punches and EVENTUALLY falls down dead. I actually burst out laughing in the cinema when I saw that😂😂

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Hahah a friend dragged me to see that when it was in theaters. I still give him shit about it to this day

@derkeheath5172 4 месяца назад

Except that people receive massive head trauma all the time and are still able to function on at least SOME level. The ones that are the most unrealistic are the ones where someone gets stabbed/shot and dies immediately. Now THAT is rare.

@TheDarkNinja7 4 месяца назад

Well supposedly the “knife in forehead but keep fighting” thing actually happened in real life to someone. The director heard about it and wanted to add it into the movie.

@Unclejack328 3 месяца назад

“Fuck Bruce Willis” 😂😂😂

@tacoforce5 4 месяца назад

a good example of that first scene type is the opening of saw 4. one guy has his mouth stitched shut and the other has his eyes stitched shut. instead of the mouth guy using all the sharp tools around to cut his stitches, he just kills the other guy and opens his mouth with force at the end of the scene anyway

@thomasrex8140 4 месяца назад

I love the fact that SW8 was a symbol of bad script.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

It wanted to be boldly original, but whenever the chips were down, it played things safe.

@Benz74M 4 месяца назад

I've seen all of these in Argylle (2024), sadly. One thing that drives me nut lately is all the scenes that delay information for the purpose of suspense but without good reason to do so. Examples: the Julia Robert film Leave the World behind, and Fargo season 5 (which was otherwise a good show) ; the number times I rolled my eyes or screamed at the tv : "why wouldn't you say something!" The advice given to writers to never give a direct answer to keep suspense is too often taken to absurd levels.

@Kurotekken 4 месяца назад

Agree with all of these. Keep it up, Brandon! Whenever someone asks for booktube recommendations, I always name you first!

@matthalpin1981 4 месяца назад

I love the videos on this channel. I learn so much and the videos always move at a good pace.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Thank you!

@Danielss250 4 месяца назад

I don't have a specifc example here, but I hate the trope of random and gratuitous sex scenes, this always takes me right out of it and I can't get immersed again and unfortunatelly this is very common.

@Conserpov 4 месяца назад

I believe those are a holdover from home video era marketing, when those were intended to improve sale and rental revenue.

@dfly27485 4 месяца назад

Great work Brandon. Very nuanced and provocative. It’s just so hard to explain to some people or your casual movie consoomer just how awful and awkward certain scenes of movies can be. One bad scene in a book or movie can just take right out of the whole experience.

@ellennewth6305 4 месяца назад

Another great vlog, Brandon. You picked some excellent examples!

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Thanks!

@alphanatestudios9240 4 месяца назад

Rose: That's how we win. Not fighting what we hate... saving what we love. Meanwhile: EVERYONE THEY LOVE IS ABOUT TO DIE BECAUSE THE LASER BROKE THROUGH THE DOORS!!! Joking aside, I really love watching your videos, and your books just came in the mail, so I'm very excited to get to them!

@siegfriedmordrake3229 4 месяца назад

Yeah sure, Rose, you'll topple tyranny by saving your friends, ot by... Well, toppling the tyrant... 😆

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Thank you for the kind words. Hope you enjoy the books! I'm releasing a new one in April

@alphanatestudios9240 4 месяца назад

@@WriterBrandonMcNulty looking forward to it

@Conserpov 4 месяца назад

They plagiarized good lines, but didn't plagiarize proper context. It's like it was written by AI.

@damian3182 4 месяца назад

This was fantastic! Good examples!

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Thanks!

@NoNameMan-oc5kh 4 месяца назад

Great work once again Brandon. 👍

@DeadBelowZer0 4 месяца назад

THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP DRAFT DAY

@briansadler5225 3 месяца назад

That Thelma and Louise scene would have been a great post-credits scene

@michaelmayo 4 месяца назад

I'll offer some advice on the writer fussing about "get rid of it" being a weak answer, but you have to find the solution on your own. Every scene has to bring some new information or change. If it's new information, this should probably cause a new look at a situation, probably complicating it and setting up subsequent scenes. This is easy if you're doing action scenes but pretty miserable if it's something subtle, but at the very least, it should leave the reader wondering what the protagonist is going to do about the new situation. You always have to work to find a way to keep things unsettled at the least leading to an emotionally or physically dangerous situation. One example offhand is when John Legazamo gets a call from the Russian boss in "John Wick" asking why he punched his kid. Legazamo knows this is a man who could easily have him killed, but simply states the kid stole Wick's car and killed his dog. What does the boss do? He goes "Oh..." and hangs up. He doesn't say "Oh" because he doesn't care, you know it's because the Boss knows what kind of hell Wick is capable of, he's going to be nearly impossible to stop, and what is he going to do about the kid? One simple scene with a few lines of dialog undoes the Boss's entire world in that instant, and lets you know Wick is one of the only men the Boss is afraid of.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

That's a great scene from JW1. Does an amazing job building hype toward John's reveal. I'm so glad I went into JW1 completely blind. A friend was like "Just watch it," and I didn't bother to look up a summary or anything. Movie blew me away.

@ry-toast2386 3 месяца назад

I am a new writer and I sincerely love your advice , you inspire me in so many ways. I enjoy your videos and learn so much from your topics. I am not sure if you have covered this topic yet, if not could you make a video about how to create and build characters for a story. Tips on how to create names and identities for your characters, their environment, employment, family, friends, etc... I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you for sharing your talent with the world. You help me and so many others.

@Moralwinner 3 месяца назад

Really great videos, helped a lot.

@GoddessOfWhim2003 4 месяца назад

your videos are great and i think they're making my writing better

@scruffypupper 4 месяца назад

A scene steadily builds tension and closes a chapter on a strong hook, I turn the page and next chapter immediately switches to another pov or situation not even connected to what I just read. It's like hitting a brick wall--WTF? For me, momentum is completely lost. And often, my interest.

@wowkir 4 месяца назад

Ah yes, the Dan Brown method of constant cliffhangers. It’s such a cheap trick.

@salami155 4 месяца назад

Brandon Sanderson, or literally any writer that vomits multiple protagonist stories with chapters dedicated to their own conflicts. If their goal was to annoy the reader, congratulations are in order.

@scruffypupper 4 месяца назад

@@salami155 I read contemporary romance and the 'series' trend has me tearing my hair out. The author wants to introduce characters from past or as yet unwritten books in the series--all in one book. I counted 42 freaking characters in one novel awhile back. 42! Some were filler characters, no purpose in the story other than saying something meaningless. 42!

@salami155 4 месяца назад

@@scruffypupper Sounds like that author should make their own silmarillion with all those characters lol. I've never read the romance genre before, my only experience is seeing those novels with fabio on the cover when I was young. Have to say I'm not into the whole love triangle thing, but it's all I've ever been subjected to.

@psycthom 4 месяца назад

Great video - I noticed an overarching theme is choose your scenes wisely towards the end of a story!

@charity6372 4 месяца назад

"As you know..." The last Airbender. I was like, yeah! That's exactly what M Knight actually wrote. 😂 I really love his talent but geez buddy! Great video as always! ❤

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Thanks!

@thomasjones4570 4 месяца назад

Reacher breaks these rules almost the entire episode, every episode. The main character is a male Mary-Sue. No character development at all for the main character. The main character either knows everything the moment he needs to know it or will figure it out finding an impossible amount of clues out of thin air...and all while nothing at all ever presented is a challenge or threat. He is presented as being a military veteran that was an MP. Yet, he is a combat expert in ALL forms. From weapons to explosives to hand to hand. He is a master detective. He can figure out how a fire started just by looking at a burnt vehicle for a few seconds, a thing even a Fire Marshal cannot do. He can hack computers. He knows how every government department operates, including secret service and somehow knows all the tactics of spies and hitmen and even knows how foreign militaries work and how they are connected to every criminal group in America...BTW, he is also apparently the greatest psychologist in history and all while displaying no emotions and has no issue at all going up to 5 guys as if they are ants and there is no chance they could hurt him. Its some of the worst writing going and somehow the creator of the character and stories won awards...

@farvencore 4 месяца назад

Both Finn and Rose would have died in that crash.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Yep. Ever play the Star Wars Rogue Squadron games? You hit another ship, it's game over.

@Philosophy42DaysUth 3 месяца назад

The movie POOR THINGS has paradigm cases of McNulty's bad writing -- characters explaining things everyone around them already know. :(

@MarkKatz2772-jg3tc 4 месяца назад

Ah yes, the idiot scene... One thing comes to mind. "Dany just kinda forgot about the iron fleet."

@mattsager914 4 месяца назад

Need this! My Manuscript is snowballing [221 pages :) ] but now I'm focusing more and more on economy and efficiency with my scenes. Could these two characters be morphed into one character? Am I selling the characters short? Am I leaving plot holes? Is this a self-defeating scene? You're the best!

@RocamboleMan 4 месяца назад

You got this man! only another 100 pages to go, so make sure you keep your initial promise to the reader and wrap it up neatly enough for this story, and leaving us with a decent cliffhanger. :) Keep writing! My story is coming along too, but I'm only at about 125 pages.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

You're on the right track. Best of luck with fine-tuning things!

@fulyaarkan8500 4 месяца назад

Sometimes I'm doubting with my writings, just like you. But then I remember the writings worse than mine but still have a success. And then I'm having peace 😌

@nocity 3 месяца назад

"Once he makes his decision, it feels like a meaningful end to his character arc." Except it wasn't going to be meaningful, and that was kinda the point. His sacrifice wouldn't have done anything to help. I actually thought it was great commentary on the "heroic sacrifice" trope in addition to Holdo and Paige's sacrifices. "Stop killing yourselves just to slow down the enemy. They have WAY more people than us, so we can't afford to keep losing numbers to pointless sacrifices."

@doylelacrua 4 месяца назад

When something absolutely crazy happens and then it fades to black: FIVE YEARS LATER.

@lunatic0verlord10 3 месяца назад

The Rose Ram scene from TLJ that you mentionned. After that, I've been super cautious about what movies I watch.

@173IrishMatty 3 месяца назад

“Draft Day” characters watching a grape scene: “That’s pure Rothlesberger”

@joshuah9109 4 месяца назад

I'm getting really tired of the "multiverse" thing, especially when it brings a "fan favorite" character back to life. It makes their death in the previous film less impactful and any unexpected, dramatic death that happens in future films barely have any impact as long as the "multiverse" effect is still in play.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Yep, resurrecting dead heroes is a major problem these days. Death is supposed to be severe and meaningful, and when you resurrect a character, you cheapen everything.

@nickb2844 3 месяца назад

⁠@@WriterBrandonMcNultyIt’s not really a problem “these days”. If we’re talking superheroes, every single one has died and every single one has come back to life. That’s always been a part of the long history of comic book characters. In my opinion if there’s a great story to tell about a character dying, you should tell it. And if there’s a great story to tell about them later, but they’re dead, bring them back to life. Of course that’s not always the case. But I don’t think the concept itself is a bad one.

@kevinmkraft 4 месяца назад

Excellent!

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Thanks!

@Envy4you 3 месяца назад

Holy moly macaroni the concepts of your books are absolutely amazing. I'm going to buy them and ruthlessly steal everything I can for the Wednesday role play night with my friends 😂

@mattt2277 4 месяца назад

What gets me are scenes that blow up the logic of the movie itself, or prequels. The second independence day did this when they brought in the lazy hive mind concept just for the clean ending. But if they all die when they queen dies, why did they keep fighting after the mother ship exploded in the first one? For ten years even! But they all auto died for the clean ending in the second?

@davidhoffman6980 3 месяца назад

I agree. I really hate the whole "just take out their leader/mother ship and the whole enemy army shuts down" trope. It's so lazy.

@grizzly_manbanimation8436 4 месяца назад

I don’t know if this counts but it’s what I like to call “confused morality” where the seen is meant to showcase an important lesson to learn. But really it’s the wrong lesson. Like the character was actually in the wrong but was being presented as in the right. An example of this comes sadly from one of my all time favorite TV shows, Avatar the last airbender. Yeah not everything was done right in the show. In the episode “the painted lady” the gang visits a village that’s struggling to get by because of the fire nation weapons factory polluting the river they lived on. Katara understandably sees how bad they have it and wants to help them, but Sokka says no because they have a mission to accomplish and they can’t afford delays as it’s time sensitive. Which does make sense seeing as the mission was invading the fire nation capital during an eclipse which leaves the firebenders powerless so they couldn’t afford to be late. Katara decieds to take matters into her own hands and help the village in secret while making it seem like Appa was sick. They couldn’t leave without him seeing as he’s their transportation. So they were forced to stay in town so katara could help them in secret. She brought them food and medicine and on the final night she blew up the factory polluting the river. Now as admirable as katara’s actions were, she was also being very reckless delaying her group like this. In forcing them to hang back they could’ve missed their deadline to meet with the invasion team. Not to mention the fire nation soldiers who were at the factory wanted to take revenge on the village for destroying their factory thinking they had something to do with it. It also turned out that katara had also been stealing from the soldiers and giving to the village. Not only did she endanger her group’s mission but also the lives of that village. Her actions could’ve gotten them killed. However the episode paints Sokka as the bad guy for getting mad and saying she shouldn’t have done anything. While it is admirable, what she did, that doesn’t excuse the fact that it could’ve had harsh consequences in the long run. And it’s just a very confused and backwards message. Sokka was totally right in his decision but was painted as the bad guy, katara was being reckless and endangering lives but she was the one that was rewarded and praised.

@natalieb3766 4 месяца назад

Nice work! I feel like you could've easily made a "25 Worst Types of Scenes" from the first 5 episodes of True Detective Season 4, alone. (People of the future, episode 6 hasn't aired as of this writing. Also hope the future is better than this present! We've all been stuck in 'The Night Country' since Harambe was murdered by time traveling assassins.)

@paulpena5040 26 дней назад

Amazing how many Disney Star Wars movie scenes make it to the "BAD" version

@jaynemesis3055 4 месяца назад

That Rose scene in star wars was so stupid. The way in which she saves him, Slamming a speeding vehicle into his speeding vehicle could of (and realistically should of killed him)... so she could of stopped him from saving everyone and killed them both in the process... yet it acts like what she did was totally rational... I mean, the whole movie is trash, so i'm not surprised the scene sucks but you know....

@erinaltstadt4234 3 месяца назад

Thank you

@fembotheather3785 4 месяца назад

"And somehow Palpatine has returned" is probably the most painful moment in a recent major film I can think of right now. In a film filled with painfully dumb moments, that stands out.

@captainwombles 4 месяца назад

The maternity ward scene in AvP2.

@KeysofIDproductions 4 месяца назад

That one scene in Revenge of the Sith that has Anakin and Padme talk and express their love. It's painfully obvious how phoned in the dialogue is and doesn't give us anything new regarding the story. There was a deleted scene where she meets with other Republic senators expressing concern over Palpatine's power. That scene should've been in the movie instead.

@ponchomkr 3 месяца назад

I love a good villainous monologue. A philosophical dive into the psyche of the bad guy where they share why they do what they do or why they are so different from the hero (Thanos to Dr Strange, Joker to Batman). But at what point do we say the writer is just trying to be pretentious? A writer making themselves out to be this great, pseudo-intellectual thinkers through said monologue.

@mattjacobson5774 4 месяца назад

Great advice as usual, but I have to take exception to the bit about Thelma and Louise. I always loved that biker scene.

@DanB.0 4 месяца назад

"I am no expert on dropping babies" hahaha sorry, that was unexpectedly hilarious. Great analysis

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Haha thanks!

@reedr7142 4 месяца назад

Well done, as usual. I do have to say, even though I never saw that blob movie, I’ve seen events like that in other productions, and found it hilarious. I would have to say the same for that scene, even though I have no intention of watching that movie.

@joelmarin5890 4 месяца назад

Sweetheart Brandon posted!!! Lmao brooo keep em coming

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Haha thanks!

@robbycan 3 месяца назад

The Self-Defeating Scene was a mainstay of Star Trek: The Next Generation... so many plots would escalate to real tension, and then with 3 minutes to go, they would have some magical thing out of nowhere resolve the crisis without the conflict they'd been building for the entire episode. It would be the peaceful non-conflict solution, which can be fine but it's been promising action and conflict and usually justice, that the audience gets cheated out of. Usually by something deus ex machina.

@bertalann7214 3 месяца назад

Worst scene? Pa Kent scarifices himself in a tornado.

@12thDecember 4 месяца назад

@ 8:49 - "What's the worst scene you've ever scene?" Homophonic error aside, I can't remember the worst scene ever, but I disagree about the bicyclist in Thelma & Louise. I really liked that scene, even though I thought it stretched credulity by having a cop in a black uniform stuffed in a trunk in the heat of midday with only one air hole. (Every time I hear "I Can See Clearly Now," that scene comes vividly to mind.) The worst scene in that movie was blowing up the tanker. Just too far-fetched to be believable. From IMDb goofs: "Thelma and Louise could not have blown up the rude trucker's tanker by merely shooting holes into it with a handgun, this is pure Hollywood hokum. For an explosion to occur the correct fuel/air mixture is required, additionally the vaporised gasoline would need an ignition source like an open flame to combust. The women could be firing military incendiary rounds into the tanker and it would still not blow up. Gasoline cannot burn much less explode without an oxygen source."

@Conserpov 4 месяца назад

The cyclist scene is clearly a social commentary, "ACAB" basically.

@federicoarmando8359 2 месяца назад

I haven’t seen any of the new star wars films, but that “saving what we love, not fighting what we hate” line sucks so much😂

@SamNijssen0410 4 месяца назад

Another excellent video! I was wondering if you would consider being a script doctor?

@Perfect_Rice 3 месяца назад

A great example of #2 is Die Hard with A Vengeance holding everything up just after the subway bomb so we can see some office workers have a chat. They don't appear anywhere else and don't give any new information. In fact, as they're speculating about what's happened, they have less information than the audience. You can completely drop this scene without it making any difference to the rest of the movie. Later on in the same movie, Simon Gruber tells the police the radio detonaters on his bombs work on a similar frequency to the police radios. This means the police can't use their radios and are issued with mobile phones. Then we get a scene with two new characters in which they tell us the exact same thing again. It's far too late into the film to introduce new characters, especially ones that only exist in one scene and reiterate what we've already been told. I like the film (I have a real fondness for the Die Hard franchise) but it's the only time I've tried to re-edit a film to deal with some of the bad writing.

@andrewteichroeb8886 4 месяца назад

Hey, Brandon. I'm a big fan of your channel; I apply a lot of your topics to my own work. I also recently bought a copy of Entry Wounds; it's not my go-to genre, but I am enjoying it all the same.

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Awesome! Thrilled to hear you're enjoying it. If you don't mind, please leave a review when you finish--those help a ton.

@extantsanity 4 месяца назад

2:01 "I'm no expert on dropping babies..." Oh, then you should have called on Anthony Jeselnik. He's got a 5-minute bit on dropping babies. He's an expert! 🤣

@Berethruu 4 месяца назад

I felt like the entire Canto-bite (spelling?) story line in The Last Jedi could be classed as a "Should have been deleted scene" - Someone chip in their thoughts if they have another take, but it felt like that whole plot line did nothing for the story, nor characters

@derekt9974 4 месяца назад

I enjoy that most of three videos of what not to do include the last 3 star wars movies.

@nebulous6660 3 месяца назад

The Good Will Hunting scene in the bar where he conveniently remembers a random textbook word for word to outsmart a college student & then the whole “do you like apples” line. 🙄 It’s the worst. I felt so validated when Louis CK did a whole standup bit making fun of it. Look it up, it’s hilarious.

@magusxxx 4 месяца назад

"You know what happens when a toad is struck by lightning?"

@austincde 4 месяца назад

I just felt bad for the cop tbh lol its like in animaniacs when random characters would get into a plane crash and then in the distance you hear them say "were ok!"😂

@JollyGreenComics 4 месяца назад

Nice vid

@WriterBrandonMcNulty 4 месяца назад

Thanks!

@Blubro6 4 месяца назад

Doesn't that scene with the blob, kind of parallel the scene in Roger rabbit where he slips out of the handcuffs?

@UrAverageFR_Teen 3 месяца назад

I was just laughing my ass off after the Strange World example, the blob could've gotten them out the entire time🤣

@paristhalheimer 3 месяца назад

I hate scenes that use dialog or character interactions for effect. Marvel, Star Wars, and Doctor Who do this all the time. It's like scenes are created to be little scratches stuck in to be clever or create a momentary impact without story purpose. These are often dramatic or humorous, and in Doctor Who's case wreck series canon.

@Mr.N_1911 4 месяца назад

Hello Mr. McNulty, I have a possible request for a video, how to write multiple genre stories, how to be able to create a story that can combine 2 or more genres like fantasy and science fiction, since I have been trying to write a multy genre show for the last couple of years, yet haven’t been able to even complete a script for the lore of the story, If you could make a video about the idea I would be really thankful.

@liljoestudiosofficial 4 месяца назад

Hey Brandon, I had a writing advice question regarding one of my books I've been developing. It starts with 4 important milestones in the protagonist's life where he makes decisions that impact his life. It's important to start with it because he uses time travel later to go back and change these decisions (which goes horribly awry later). My main question here is pacing the scenes. Should I rapid-fire the scenes within a chapter/prologue so that it'll get to the main meat of the story faster, or should I not jump around and instead slow it down and pace it out (like a scene a chapter or something) so that the audience can take more time to better appreciate the characters introduced in these small opening scenes? (A lil context: This book is likely going to be 30-60 chapters long with it being a scene per page, word count TBD) Hopefully you see this, but if not then oh well. Have a good one!

@jamesbrown3239 4 месяца назад

I thought for sure your example for #4 (cheat code scene) was going to be TLJ- when Poe and Rose end up in a jail cell, with the exact guy who can fix their issue even though it’s not the guy they were looking for. (But let’s be honest, you would show every example of these scenes from just TLJ. This was a movie that hated its audience and wanted to punish them for liking SW, plain and simple.