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Everyone remembers "It's not your fault." Almost everyone calls it the climax. It's the emotional peak — a beat Will receives rather than acts on. The true Good Will Hunting climax comes when Will takes the offensive: walking away from McNeil and driving west to see about a girl. A reader asked why I map it that way. Here's the structural answer.
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The Force Awakens did a fantastic job paying homage to the original trilogy. I loved trying to catch all the call backs as they flew by: Luke’s saber in the snow, the Jedi mind tricks, force chokes, Death Stars, Mos…
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