You can use locations in your scripts for a lot of things. You can use locations to reveal important things about your characters and story, and your characters can use locations as weapons, defense, to create obstacles for other characters, to get out of situations, traps for monsters, to set up twists, etc.
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this reminded me of something Andy Guerdat said on one of his YouTube vids. been watching lately he’s got a good channel. “the go draft”
he was talking about the “axe” of the scene.
put two characters in a room with no doors and no windows and nothing else. after the initial panic then what?
now give them an axe. then they can argue about who gets the axe, who’s swinging it wrong, who could break it, who did break it etc.
then he brought up several examples including what he called the cuckoo clock scene, where one guy was putting the screws to another over something but they were in one of those cable cars ( the axe ) alone with each other. it was in the air and before too long the door was opened and threats were in the air as well. lol.
that channel is good - lots of advice from a working Hollywood writer.
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I gotta try those scenes and check out Andy's channel, John Montague. Thanks.