Sure, it’s all senseless babble. Where most screenwriting gurus have failed their remarks still stem through. Escalating tension as an example, surely it is simply about making the same tried and tested methods unpredictable. As in the same beats are not seen coming. Random but Chasing Amy… “The set up,” Holden is an artist with nothing to say, not noticed because he is simply having a nothing get to know you conversation over some darts at a bar with Alyssa Jones played by Joey Lauren Adams, where it is revealed that dick and fart jokes pay the bills but where is his integrity. At the end it turns out the whole movie was leading up to this… becoming an artist with something to say. Jonathan ‘Lim Chin Aun’