Sunday, September 26, 2010
A matter of time
In real life, sieges take months even years, in movies they take hours. I've been told time skips are a bad thing especially late in a story and that's really the only way I can convey that they're besieged for a great length of time. I of course can write the siege as taking a matter of days (and about an hour on screen), I just don't really want to.
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But the question is, which way will it visually be more compelling and at the same time move the story forward. Yes sieges take years. But so do cases involving complicated murders and yet every week Law and Order manages to solve one in 42 minutes.
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