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TWC - Free Previews We provide the free previews for you to get a feel for the kind of content that makes The Writers Channel such a great community, and show you why you should join now. Regular Insider Interviews are with Hollywoods top executives, agents and producers are in both text and audio formats. Carrie Richman Insider Interview (Sr. Executive at Happy Madison). Last year, Happy Madison, Adam Sandler's production company, produced more movies than New Line. They are widening their scope beyond producing comedies and are a huge presence in Hollywood Lesley Bracker: What do you look for in a screenplay, what usually catches your eye when you're reading a script for the first time? Carrie Richman: Good characters catch my eye. Characters you can relate to, characters that are identifiable to a wide audience. I think that pretty much all great movies start with a great character, often a flawed character: someone who gets in an extraordinary situation and gets himself out of it. I think even somewhat unlikable characters like Michael Douglas cheating on his wife in FATAL ATTRACTION, somehow we root for him to get out of that awful mess. When you look at SPIDERMAN this weekend. I think it did huge box office for a lot of reasons, and I think one of the reasons is because Toby Maguire is very relatable as the geek who keeps getting shoved aside, the guy who's awkward around girls, and a guy who's just trying to find his way through high school. Then, this guy is given extraordinary powers, which can also be seen as a metaphor for adolescence in many ways. Then, he doesn't know what to do with his powers! He can't figure out how to get the web to come out of his wrist and is in awe of himself. That makes him like us, yet he's a superhero, but he starts out like us. I think that all great screenplays start out that way. LB: Is it important that you see a character is well-defined very quickly in a screenplay? Or do you like to see that the story is being set-up well? CR: I think you look for both and in many ways character and plot are inextricable. A plot should really only be a result of what happens to the character in this situation. Another character in this situation would be another plot, because character and plot reinforce each other. I like to see that character is set up and defined very quickly. But it's also important that the character has room to change and grow and that the story is a result of that.
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