DZ-04: Catharsis and the Post-Coital Cigarette

Listen if you want to make you endings great! Stu and Chas are joined by their first guest – illustrious script developer and producer Stephen Cleary – to explore how certain films can trigger an outpouring of emotion from the audience. Turns out that Aristotle may have figured it out a few thousand years ago and called it Catharsis. To examine how Catharsis can be triggered by a sequence of fixed beats, Stu, Chas and Stephen zone in on the last few pages of FIELD OF DREAMS, TOY STORY 3 and SE7EN. And Stu brings up FROZEN. Again. Thanks to Noisepig Productions for location recording and producing this episode. As always: SPOILERS ABOUND and all copyright material used under fair use for educational purposes. LIKE THIS EPISODE? Send us feedback. Thanks to our Patrons, especially Khrob, Theis, Sandra, Jesse, Randy, Paulo, Thomas, Jennifer, Malay, Alexandre and Lily. ——— FILMS FIELD OF DREAMS (1989) — (w) Phil Alden Robinson, Wp Kinsella (d) Phil Alden Robinson TOY STORY 3 (2010) — (w) Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich (d) Lee Unkrich SE7EN (1995) — (w) Andrew Kevin Walker (d) David Fincher SCRIPTS Study the script: FIELD OF DREAMS (1989) — Phil Alden Robinson, Wp Kinsella Study the script: TOY STORY 3 (2010) — Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich Study the script: SE7EN (1995) — Andrew Kevin Walker LINKS Script: FROZEN by Jennifer Lee - Last 10 pages. For educational purposes only Script: FIELD OF DREAMS by Phil Alden Robinson -- Last 5 pages. For educational purposes only Script: SE7EN by Andrew Kevin Walker -- Last 18 pages. For educational purposes only YouTube: Field of Dreams -- "Ray meets his father" (Youtube) YouTube: Field of Dreams -- "You're not invited" (Youtube) YouTube: Se7en - "The Box" (Youtube) Read: Scriptchat Archives ——— More Draft Zero is brought to you by our awesome Patreons. If you enjoy the show, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, a rating on Spotify, or a review on Podchaser. We are @stuwillis, @mehlsbells and @chasffisher on Twitter. You can find @draft_zero and @_shotzero on Instagram and Twitter. Full show notes at: https://draft-zero.com/2014/dz-04/