Screenwriting : How Todd Field uses Hemingway's ICEBERG THEORY to introduce a major character by Yusuf Toropov

Yusuf Toropov

How Todd Field uses Hemingway's ICEBERG THEORY to introduce a major character

In my latest obsessive analysis of Todd Field's remarkable screenplay TAR, I look at how his use of ICEBERG THEORY creates the presumption of Lydia Tar's story arc being based on that of a real conductor (it isn't) and at how Field introduces the major character Francesca using a scene with zero dialogue.

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A long time between posts because I was completing the second draft of my own screenplay!

Maurice Vaughan

Congratulations on finishing the second draft, Yusuf Toropov! I'm looking forward to the next episode.

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