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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The Kuleshov Effect
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Hodari refused Adam’s offer. If nothing else, he figured Adam was bluffing.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
the dark night before the climax.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
10. The Enterprise Dabblers
Daniel Gross • 2020 Startup Themes
He wrote Forrest Ashby that he was thinking of moving to Canada to be a high school teacher.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
By cutting away at the crisis point, each scene ending requires an explanation, and thus creates curiosity and anticipation, defers gratification and keeps people watching.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The idea from a dialogue point of view was, he was a man who sold his soul, so he basically surrendered the sense of I or me. He never refers to himself as I or me; it’s always “a man.” He is a sort of elemental figure and an ancient character who can’t seem to die. As he says in the last episode, “I didn’t speak to anyone for a century.” So what w... See more